Two Vietnamese men were sentenced to 6 and 5 months imprisonment for mistakenly damaging Taiwanese business properties during the May 14 anti-China riots across the nation. The protests were (more…)
In yet another sign of China’s deepening isolation among its neighbors, South Korea has announced that it will deliver a corvette warship to the Philippine navy. The Pohang-class corvette (more…)
The Kremlin recently announced that it would forgive a huge debt owed to Moscow by North Korea. The debt, totaling close to $11 billion, dates back for the most (more…)
A ramming incident between a Chinese and a Vietnamese maritime vessel on June 1 highlighted the escalation of violence in the South China Sea between the two communist countries (more…)
On June 2, Japan officially informed Vietnam that the Japanese government would temporarily suspend official development assistance [ODA] because of a series of alleged corruption and kickback cases involved (more…)
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye’s plane was denied permission to overfly Iran on May 19 while en route to the United Arab Emirates for a state visit. As a (more…)
Unidentified insurgents shot and killed a Chinese engineer in Benghazi, Libya on May 20. The engineer was on his way to work at a Chinese-assisted construction project. China had (more…)
On May 22, a North Korean war ship fired two artillery shells at a South Korean war ship on routine patrol in the disputed sea boundary area in the (more…)
The Yokohama District Court handed down a potentially dangerous order on May 21 to suspend all nighttime flights by Japan’s Self-Defense Force on account of excessive noise heard by (more…)
