Chinese authorities have formally arrested an Australian journalist who was working with China’s state broadcaster CGTN on the charge of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas.” The move is the latest of such in the increasing tensions between China and Australia. In a statement, Australian Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said that
Late on Friday (19 Feb), hundreds of protestors gathered outside of parliament in Bangkok, holding a demonstration coinciding with the censure debate against Prime Minister Prayut-o-cha’s government by opposition lawmakers inside the building. In anticipation of the following protest, thousands of police officers were put ahead of an expected no-confidence
On 4 February, the United States Navy sailed a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, marking the first time the U.S. has transited the strait separating China and Taiwan since President Joe Biden took office. The Japan-based guided-missile destroyer, USS John S. McCain, conducted the routine passage dividing China and Taiwan
On January 23rd, China flew two large formations of fighters and bombers over Taiwanese air space. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry reported 13 Chinese aircraft entering the southwestern sector of their air defense identification zone (A.D.I.Z.), marking the second day running of mainland incursions and prompting Taipei to dispatch their own fighters
A new report shows that the amount of North Korean ships in the nation’s “dark fleet” for squid fishing have dropped significantly in 2020, cutting off the hermit kingdom’s popular staple in a time when the national food supply was already facing widespread shortages. According to the Global Fishing Watch,
“Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.” That was only one of the many examples of inciting rhetoric FBI officials had observed online in the days leading to the pro-Trump riots targeting the US Capitol that left five dead,
In a historic ruling on January 1st, Japan was ordered by a South Korean court to pay compensation to 12 South Korean ‘comfort women,’ who were all victims of sexual slavery. It is a ruling over Japan’s wartime atrocities which has strained relations between the two countries for decades, with
A group of Hong Kongers who were arrested at sea by Chinese authorities while attempting to seek refuge in Taiwan were sentenced on 23 December 2020 by a mainland court for up to three years in prison. The sentencing is only the latest offensive in the Chinese Communist Party’s actions
On Saturday December 12, dissident Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam was executed by hanging in Iran, according to state television IRIB. United Nations Human Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, voiced outrage at Iran’s execution of the media activist and opposition figure. “I am appalled at the execution in Iran on 12 December
