Tag: Asia Pacific
first convictions in a corruption scandal
A Tokyo court on Friday (April 21) sentenced the former president of a Japanese company sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and two collaborators to suspended prison sentences. The…
Japan: concern grows over attacks on politicians
A quiet town in the department of Yamaguchi, in the south-west of Japan, known for its gray wooden school of 1913 classified as a historical monument, Takibe welcomed Shinji Yoshida,…
Bangladesh is suffocating, crushed by a record heat wave
A historic heat wave has been ravaging South and Southeast Asia, especially in Bangladesh for several days. Heat very difficult to bear in a poor and overpopulated country, and with…
Ukraine: “Donbass Girl”, this ex-soldier who spreads Putin’s propaganda in the United States
She pretended to be a Russian blogger, straight from Luhansk, region of Ukrainian Donbass. She professed her admiration for Vladimir Putin via her social networks, podcasts or fundraisers, addressed to…
China Assaulting Latin America, by Eric Chol
It is an all-out offensive, launched twenty years ago, and which is accelerating. In the sights of China, Latin America, too long forgotten by the neighboring protective power, the United…
tensions and clashes in Papua between soldiers and rebels
Confusing situation in the Indonesian province of Papua. Separatist rebels say they killed at least nine Indonesian soldiers in an attack on Saturday (April 15th). A spokesman for the Indonesian…
Beijing accuses Washington of ‘hype’
The American Destroyer USS Milius sailed Sunday April 16 in the Taiwan Strait, according to the United States Navy. Beijing said on Monday that it had monitored the passage of…
two Muslim mobsters murdered in front of the cameras and the police in Uttar Pradesh
Shock scene in India where two former politicians, of the Muslim faith, were coldly shot to death in the state of Uttar Pradesh. They were going to be questioned by…
In Beijing, Lula pleads for a new world order
After a first day rather placed under the sign of the economy in Shanghai, the Brazilian president went to Beijing for a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. The…
North Korean refugees fear deportation after borders reopen
Concern is mounting over the possible repatriation of North Korean refugees to China. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the border between Beijing and Pyongyang has remained closed, halting…