Asia & Pacific

China’s rubber-stamp legislature adopted the measure, effective from July 1, to strictly promote the Mandarin language from preschool.

The U.S. president originally had a trip to China scheduled to begin at the end of this month.

Analysts said Beijing is shifting costs to wealthier regions as slowing growth and rising debt strain public finances.

The country’s government has formally written to the World Health Organisation rejecting the rules around international standards and cooperation.

A raid on the Comancheros gang in New Zealand has uncovered an AR15 rifle along with drugs and cash.

The president’s visit to Beijing for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was initially scheduled for March 31 to April 2.

‘We’ve requested that we delay it a month or so,’ Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday.

Radar, missile, and nuclear specialists disappear from China’s top engineering body as a broader shake-up spreads across the defense industry.

Japan begins historic oil reserve release as Hormuz disruption threatens global supply, with experts warning the move may only buy time.

Philippine Foreign Ministry spokesman Rogelio Villanueva says Manila has ‘indivisible, incontrovertible and longstanding sovereignty’ over Scarborough Shoal.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the deals were intended to ensure that Indo-Pacific allies do not have to buy from adversaries.

Besides cutting off the oil supply passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is a main supplier of methanol to Asian markets, including China.

Between March 14 and March 15, Taiwan detected 26 military aircraft.

Four of seven Iranian women’s soccer team members who had accepted asylum in Australia have since left the country.

South Korea’s prime minister said the U.S. president raised North Korea during an unscheduled White House meeting.

Sources say shipments routed through Iran’s Jask Port and a strategic pipeline is allowing crude to bypass the Strait of Hormuz despite escalating conflict.

The regime raised gasoline and diesel prices for the fourth time this year as crude surged amid the Iran war.

Beijing’s sharp outcry followed the Taiwanese official’s Tokyo visit to watch an international baseball match.

The CCP and Kim Jong Un are getting closer because of concerns that they might be the next target of U.S. military operations, analysts said.

Chinese refineries are the primary buyers of Iranian crude oil.

China’s rubber-stamp legislature adopted the measure, effective from July 1, to strictly promote the Mandarin language from preschool.

The U.S. president originally had a trip to China scheduled to begin at the end of this month.

Analysts said Beijing is shifting costs to wealthier regions as slowing growth and rising debt strain public finances.

The country’s government has formally written to the World Health Organisation rejecting the rules around international standards and cooperation.

A raid on the Comancheros gang in New Zealand has uncovered an AR15 rifle along with drugs and cash.

The president’s visit to Beijing for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was initially scheduled for March 31 to April 2.

‘We’ve requested that we delay it a month or so,’ Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday.

Radar, missile, and nuclear specialists disappear from China’s top engineering body as a broader shake-up spreads across the defense industry.

Japan begins historic oil reserve release as Hormuz disruption threatens global supply, with experts warning the move may only buy time.

Philippine Foreign Ministry spokesman Rogelio Villanueva says Manila has ‘indivisible, incontrovertible and longstanding sovereignty’ over Scarborough Shoal.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the deals were intended to ensure that Indo-Pacific allies do not have to buy from adversaries.

Besides cutting off the oil supply passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is a main supplier of methanol to Asian markets, including China.

Between March 14 and March 15, Taiwan detected 26 military aircraft.

Four of seven Iranian women’s soccer team members who had accepted asylum in Australia have since left the country.

South Korea’s prime minister said the U.S. president raised North Korea during an unscheduled White House meeting.

Sources say shipments routed through Iran’s Jask Port and a strategic pipeline is allowing crude to bypass the Strait of Hormuz despite escalating conflict.

The regime raised gasoline and diesel prices for the fourth time this year as crude surged amid the Iran war.

Beijing’s sharp outcry followed the Taiwanese official’s Tokyo visit to watch an international baseball match.

The CCP and Kim Jong Un are getting closer because of concerns that they might be the next target of U.S. military operations, analysts said.

Chinese refineries are the primary buyers of Iranian crude oil.