• East Asia

    Obama’s last trip to Asia

    Tong Kim – The Korea Times Watching last week’s multiple summits between the heads of the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia, taking place on the sidelines of the G20 conference in China and the ASEAN+3 and East Asia Summit gatherings in Laos, we can only conclude that…

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  • East Asia

    Muslims celebrate feast all around the world

    Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand. During the holiday, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute part of the meat to the poor.

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  • East Asia

    Indonesian airline bans use of Galaxy Note 7 phone during flight

    Indonesian leading carrier, PT Garuda Indonesia, on Sunday banned passengers from using or charging Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in all flights following a battery fire incident, an airline official said. The decision was made after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told passengers not to use the smartphone following…

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  • South East Asia

    China and Russia navies to hold navy drill in South China Sea

    China and Russia will stage an eight-day Navy drill in the South China Sea off southern China’s Guangdong Province starting Monday, a Chinese Navy spokesperson said on September 11. The drill, “Joint Sea-2016,” will feature Navy surface ships, submarines, fixed-wing aircraft, ship-borne helicopters marine corps and amphibious armored equipment from…

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  • East Asia

    Russia to Host CIS Summit in October 2017

    A summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take place in Russia in October 2017, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said on September 11, Sputnik reports. Russia will host the summit and will assume the CIS chairmanship, he explained. “A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of…

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  • East Asia

    ASEAN wise to leave sea arbitration alone

    The ASEAN summit released a joint statement on Wednesday, article 121-128 of which mentioned the South China Sea issue. Like the joint communiqué released by the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in July, the latest statement did not mention the South China Sea arbitration. Rather, it stressed the importance and urgency…

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  • South East Asia

    Duterte says he will not allow any country to interfere in Philippine internal affairs

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that the United States has no moral authority to give him a lecture on humans rights, warning he will not allow any country to interfere in Philippine internal affairs. Duterte was reacting to a question that U.S. President Barack Obama might raise the…

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  • East Asia

    Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou

    People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global…

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  • East Asia

    China and US ratify Paris climate pact

    Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama handed over their countries’ instruments of joining the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon successively on Saturday, a day before the start of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou. The simultaneous ratification of China and the US, as…

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  • East Asia

    China and US welcomes a potential establishment of Global Forum on excess capacity

    Zhuang Xueya from the People’s Daily On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had reached a wide range of important consensus, including strengthening cooperation…

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