Latest Asia Pacific News
RSS-
Performance art College students pre...
Six college students pretended they were dead on a street in Guangzhou, capital city of southern Guangdong province to call for equal treatment of gay people, Thursday, May 16. The students, wearing T-shirts that have "Tong Xing Lian" (Chinese characters meaning gay) on them, were walking in downtown Guangzhou while some passer-by shouted "gay men are disgusting" at them. ...
-
Fan Bingbing bear hugs Jacky chen in ...
Jacky Chen receives a bear hug from Fan Bingbing as he steps down the yacht to greet the actress during the Cannes International Film ...
-
4-yr-old boy drowned by traffickers f...
By Yu Runze, Sina English A 4-year-old boy was drowned after he was dumped into a river in a knapsack with stones in it by three human traffickers in Fujian Province in 1995, one suspect recently confessed the brutal murder when serving the sentence for another crime he committed in in Anhui Province. "The boy was so smart that he remembered everything about his family. As a result, we ...
More Asia Pacific News
RSS-
Headless corpse found in downtown Bei...
By Jia Xiaoguang, Sina English An unidentified dead body with its head and limbs all missing was found in Xincheng District, Beijing at around 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The corpse was spotted by some passer-by on a pavement not far from Tian'anmen Square at about 4 a.m., according to some eyewitness. He said the body was devoid of head and all the four limbs. The police arrived ...
-
Premier Li to make overseas debut in ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to kick off a week-long tour to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany on Sunday in his first foreign trip since taking office in March. Analysts said Li's upcoming visits to the countries from May 19 to 27, coupled with President Xi Jinping's first overseas trip as head of state to Russia and Africa in March, highlight Beijing's bid for a more ...
-
Strategies Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades
A GENERATION ago, Japan was a colossus on any investing map of the world. Envious foreigners called its export-driven economy a ...
-
Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
-
Pyongyang fires short-range missiles in apparent drill South Korea ministry
SEOUL -- North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defense ministry ...
-
China to play peaceful role in Arctic development
/enpproperty--> HELSINKI - China will act as a serious player and peaceful power after it has been accepted by the Arctic Council as a formal observer, Chinese Embassador to Finland Huang Xing has said. "I am pleased to learn the news that China has been accepted as a formal observer of this organization," he told Xinhua in an interview in Helsinki late Friday. He stressed that ...
-
PH urges Taiwan to protect Filipino workers
Vice President Jejomar Binay. RYAN LEAGOGO/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines--Malacaang has formed a team from the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco) in Taipei to ensure protection for Filipino workers in Taiwan after reports of harassment and attacks by Taiwanese angry over the fatal shooting of one of their fishermen by Philippine coast guards last week. Vice President Jejomar Binay, ...
-
Death toll climbs in south China flooding
Chinese officials said the death toll from widespread flooding in southern China reached 53 Saturday, with at least 16 people still missing. Heavy rain fell in southern China, and 10 provinces in the south and central China were reeling from flooding and landslides, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The Chinese government launched a level-four response to the disaster Xinhua ...
-
6.0-magnitude quake strikes Japan
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan Saturday, jolting residents in the area hit hard by a massive quake in 2011, officials said. Police and fire officials said no injuries were reported and the temblor caused no damage at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear reactors, Kyodo News said. No tsunami warning was issued. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake was ...
-
China to limit TV dramas based on war...
Provincial satellite TV stations will face limits on portraying certain content in dramas based on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) at prime time as required by China's media regulator, several sources with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. The State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has ordered a provincial-level TV ...
-
Climber is First Saudi Woman to Scale Mount Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal ...
-
Palace rejects Taiwan allegation of murder
Strategic Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines--Malacaang on Saturday rejected Taiwan's allegations that Filipino coast guards had intentionally killed a Taiwanese fisherman in waters off Balintang Island in northern Philippines last week, triggering a major diplomatic row between the two countries. Chen Wen-chi, director of Taiwan's ...
-
Nigerian Military Says It Captured Dozens of Boko Haram Militants
ABUJA -- Less than five days after the Nigerian armed forces began a massive attack on militants in the north, Nigeria's Department of Defense says 65 suspected Boko Haram militants have been arrested and ten have been killed. The Nigerian military says Boko Haram militants are fleeing their camps. Some are in search of fuel while others are running from the armed forces that are ...
-
Japan 5.9 earthquake hits Fukushima coast no tsunami
A US Geological Survey map shows the epicenter of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the northeast coast of Japan on May 18, 2013. (US Geological ...
-
Rugby All Blacks no show spoils Fijis birthday
They asked to play the All Blacks. They've been given a stitched-up side badged as the 'Classic All Blacks' - and Fiji rugby's 100th birthday party next month is shaping as another episode of Pacific neglect. The Fijian Rugby Union wrote to the New Zealand Rugby Union and other leading nations in August 2012 seeking agreement for a test in Suva to fittingly mark such an important anniversary. ...
-
Efforts to Strengthen Afghan Law on Women May Backfire
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
-
Brazil launches biggest military operation to check drug human trafficking
Brazilian army soldiers take part in a military exercise in preparation for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup, in a field near the National Stadium in Brasilia. (AP ...
-
Nigeria Imposes Curfew in Military Campaign
Nigeria's military has imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, as security forces continue to pursue suspected Islamist militants in the region. The military on Saturday listed more than 10 areas in Maiduguri under curfew. The armed forces have locked down the city and closed roads. Maiduguri, the original home of the Islamist militant group Boko ...
-
China WPT tournament 2013 to be held in Hainan in October
"Our goal is to make Jeju a gambling mecca...we want to bring the biggest tournaments here...WSOP [World Series of Poker], Poker Stars, Red Dragon, we already signed up WPT [World Poker Tour] and ATP [Asian Poker Tour]. We want to bring the big tournaments to ...
-
India says all issues on the table on China PMs visit
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India says all issues will be "on the table", including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the South Asian giant which starts on Sunday.At the same time New Delhi thinks "very highly" of Li's decision to make India his first overseas stop since taking charge as premier, Indian foreign ...
-
Greece to buy 142 ships from China
SHANGHAI - Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said here Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding companies. The orders, which were signed in April, accounted for more than 60 percent of the recent global orders of Greek shipowners, said the Greek official. The shipping industry, including shipbuilding, is one of the most ...
-
Under Pressure China Measures Its Impact in Myanmar
MADAY ISLAND, Myanmar ...
Macau Featured
-
Macau economy punches way above its weight
Macau’s economy is set for a continued period of rapid growth over the next decade as Asia tops the charts in terms of revenue gained through gaming industries, but there is more to our little city-state than just casinos and hotels.
Macau is the Monaco of Asia. Although legally part of the Peoples Republic of China, this small little territory, just 29 kilometers squared and one of the most densely populated in the world, exists under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy of the Chinese government and therefore has its own internal legal system and political makeup. It is this which has enabled Macau, a tiny city-state with no natural resources, to develop one of the highest GDPs per capita in Asia, after Singapore. Read more
News from around our Network
