Tag: Asia Pacific
United States, Japan and South Korea will share information
The United States and its two Asian allies, Japan and South Korea, will share information on North Korean missile launches. This announcement was made after a meeting of their defense…
India: what we know about the train accident that killed 228
The wagons are lying on their sides, completely off the rails, dented, disfigured. On the first photos of the train accident which occurred on Friday evening June 3, which left…
In India, a terrible feminicide shakes the country and revives tensions
In New Delhi, a young man murdered a young girl in the street who had just broken up with him. Passers-by did not react. The scene, filmed by a surveillance…
North Korea: the launch of a spy satellite sows panic in the region
Nearby countries were gripped by panic. While North Korea announced, this Wednesday, May 31, that it had tried to launch a “military reconnaissance satellite” which then “damaged at sea”, a…
Zelensky insists that Seoul provide him with defensive military equipment
In an interview with a conservative Korean newspaper, the Ukrainian president thanked South Korea for its humanitarian aid, but sought to obtain more. A way to advance its interests without…
China will send its first civilian into space
This is a first in its history. China is sending a civilian astronaut into space on Tuesday, May 30, for a manned mission to the Tiangong space station with the…
clashes between a Muslim minority and the police in the southwest
Clashes were reported over the weekend on social media in China. Clashes between the Muslim Hui minority and the police in the province of Yunnan, in the south-west of the…
Japan threatens to shoot down North Korean rocket
This is the possibility raised by the Japanese Ministry of Defense after Pyongyang notified that a reconnaissance satellite would be put into orbit between May 31 and June 11. Tokyo…
Aviation: China wants to compete with Airbus and Boeing with its C919
The C919, a new machine “made in China”, is supposed to compete with the most popular foreign devices. And potentially break the monopoly established by Boeing with its 737 MAX…
China celebrates first commercial flight of Chinese-designed airliner
Successful maiden flight for the first Made in China airliner. 15 years after the official launch of the C919 program, the Comac aircraft – competitor of the A320neo and the…