‘Not ready’: Taiwan reservists stoic but unprepared for China threat
Sitting pensively in a pew at a Taipei church, army reservist Henry Cheng is nonchalant about the Chinese warships and ...
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UK by-elections: Fresh threat to Johnson
Voters head to the polls on Thursday in two closely watched UK by-elections that risk renewing pressure on beleaguered Prime ...
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Hundreds rally against threat to close Turkish women’s rights group
Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in several Turkish cities including Istanbul and Ankara against a move to close one ...
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Japan eyes $46B fund vs North korea threat
TOKYO — Japan plans a record $46 billion defense budget for the next fiscal year to strengthen its missile defense ...
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SEOUL"•The US, South Korea and Japan started joint exercises Monday to track missiles from North Korea, Seoul’s military said, following ...
Read moreMissile tests ‘imminent threat’
TOKYO"•North Korea’s missile tests are an “imminent threat” to Japan, the Japanese parliament declared Monday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.