MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The National Assembly of South Korea ratified on Friday a revised free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States that was signed by the leaders of the two countries in September, media reported. According to Yonhap … Read More
North Korea needs signs of economic benefits from US to move forward in denuclearization. he momentum for a second US-North Korea summit early next year and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to Seoul has been kept alive through a … Read More
He Jiankui spoke at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28. China News Service Chinese authorities on Thursday ordered a halt to all research activities by scientists caught up in gene-edited babies scandal. The … Read More
FILE – An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem. A new study by longtime China experts in the U.S. has concluded that Beijing is engaging in an increasingly aggressive campaign to influence and shape perceptions about … Read More
South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s much praised North Korea policy is in jeopardy. Moon’s North Korea policy has been widely deemed a success. But unless he gets a handle on his country’s many domestic economic woes and boosts his approval … Read More
Taipei, Nov. 26 (CNA) A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Taiwan at 7:57 a.m. Monday, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB). The earthquake’s epicenter was located at sea about 101.9 kilometers west of Penghu County Hall, at a depth … Read More
A Benjamin Franklin US 100-dollar banknote and a Chinese 100-yuan banknote depicting late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong are seen in a photo illustration, Jan. 21, 2016. ~Reuters Under pressure from a slowing economy, rising tariffs and skittish investors, China’s government … Read More
The continued challenges of a changing economic environment are not new to the ASEAN+3 region, which consists of the 10 ASEAN members plus China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Korea. The region has weathered several external shocks in the past … Read More
US Vice President Mike Pence (left) with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan on 13 Nov, 2018.PHOTO: EPA-EFE TOKYO – US Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday (Nov 13) reaffirmed the need … Read More
Vice President Pence in Kalispell, Mont., on Nov. 5. (Justin Franz/Flathead Beacon/AP) More than a dozen Pacific nations will convene in the capital of Papua New Guinea next week, where Vice President Pence will lay out the next phase of … Read More