Taiwan’s foreign minister said Friday that additional foreign delegations are “more than welcome” in Taipei, insisting his government will not be deterred by China’s furious reaction to last week’s visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.In an exclusi…
Read moreKUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 (NNN-Bernama) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its dialogue partner South Korea should level up the existing strategic cooperation in facing the geopolitical issues concerning superpowers.Dr Lee Jaehyon, Sen…
Read moreU.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said Friday that China “overreacted” to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and used it as a pretext to try to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.The American response…
Read moreJAKARTA– The Indonesian authorities said yesterday that, they had intensified a search for the owner of palm oil corporation PT Duta Palma Group, Surya Darmadi, a suspect in an alleged corruption scandal, estimated to have caused state losses of 78 tri…
Read moreCOLOMBO, Aug 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s health experts, begun testing its citizens for Monkeypox, to identify if the virus had entered the country, a Health Ministry official said here, yesterday.The official said that, the Health Ministry began con…
Read morePHNOM PENH, Aug 11 (NNN-AKP) – Trade volume between Cambodia and China was valued at 6.97 billion U.S. dollars, in the first seven months of 2022, up 15.6 percent year-on-year, according to the General Department of Customs and Excise’s report, release…
Read moreVIENTIANE, Aug 11 (NNN-KPL) – Typhoon Mulan will pass over Laos until Saturday, bringing thunderstorms, heavy rain and strong winds, putting some provinces at risk of flooding and landslides, the weather bureau of Laos, warned.According to a report iss…
Read moreKUALA LUMPUR— Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants new areas of cooperation related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives to be explored by Malaysia and Japan through projects and programmes implemented under the Look …
Read moreTEHRAN– Iran’s naval forces have seized a vessel, carrying more than 277,000 litres of smuggled fuel, in the southern waters of the country, local media reported, yesterday.The Chief Justice of Hormuzgan Province, Mojtaba Qahremani, was quoted by the s…
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