Tag: Asia Pacific
Taiwan cancels global LGBT+ event after demand to rename it
A global LGBT+ event was canceled on Friday by Taiwanese officials in protest after global organizers demanded that Taiwan be removed from the event’s title. The cancellation of WorldPride Taiwan…
Samsung boss gets presidential pardon
The heir and leader de facto of the Samsung group benefited on Friday August 12 from a presidential pardon. This is the latest example of a South Korean tradition of…
Japanese Prime Minister dismisses ministers too close to the Moon sect
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, down sharply in the polls, has been forced to reshuffle his government since the revelation of links between the Unification Church, better known as “…
a bill to postpone the elections raises concern
A bill aiming to delay the elections for at least seven months has been submitted to Parliament which is due to examine the text on 5th September next. The approach…
since the arrival of the Taliban, the Shiites still feel targeted
In Afghanistan, the country’s Shiite community celebrated Ashura on Monday, August 8, the most important religious celebration for them. Last week, this community was particularly targeted by attacks in Kabul…
In western Afghanistan, Shiites celebrate Ashura with fear in their stomachs
Eleven people were killed, forty others injured in two explosions that occurred on August 5 and 6 in western Afghanistan. On Friday, the bomb exploded during a funeral gathering in…
What lessons can be learned from Chinese military maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait?
Taiwan’s transport minister said flights and navigations can gradually resume in six of the seven “ temporary danger zones – that is to say where Beijing has been carrying out…
North Korea says all sick are ‘cured’
North Korea, according to its KCNA news agency, has managed to stave off the Covid-19 epidemic on its soil. While Pyongyang revealed its first confirmed case on May 12, and…
Blinken expected in the Philippines to discuss cooperation between Manila and Washington
As part of his ten-day tour of Southeast Asia and Africa, after Cambodia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going to the Philippines this Saturday, August 6, where he…
Taiwan tensions rock Cambodia’s ASEAN summit
The crisis around Taiwan this Friday turned an Asean meeting in Cambodia upside down. Gathered in the capital Phnom Penh, the foreign ministers of the bloc of Southeast Asian countries…