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Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., delivers his speech during the 88th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Quezon city, Philippines on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023.
China   Philippines   Photos   Politics  
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Philippines’s Marcos promises measures after China’s ‘dangerous attacks’
President Ferdinand Marcos says the Philippines will take countermeasures against China after confrontations in the South China Sea last week injured Filipino soldiers and damaged vessels. | “We see... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila)
Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
Asia   Myanmar   Photos   Politics  
 Asiatimes 
Myanmar’s widening war headed for junta’s heartland
Even before the end of a dry season that has dramatically upended the military balance in Myanmar, the broad and profoundly sobering contours of conflict over the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 are a... (photo: AP / Thein Zaw)
FILE - Participants hold a rainbow flag during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 4, 2023. Lawmakers in Thailand's lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)  CNN 
Thailand’s lower house passes bill to legalize same-sex marriage
Thailand’s House of Representatives voted to legalize same-sex marriage on Wednesday, bringing the Southeast Asian nation a step closer to becoming the third territory in Asia to guarantee equal ma... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit, File)
Civil Rights   LGBTQ   Photos   Thailand  
Cambodia elections  Asiatimes 
Democratic dawn in Cambodia’s autocratic darkness
We left Cambodia either during the Vietnam War or after the fall of the Khmer Rouge –a regime that killed over two million citizens between 1975 and 1979. The plight of the Khmer people continues as... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Cambodia   Democracy   Photos   Politics  
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In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers work inside the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024, following an attack Friday, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility. The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Asiatimes
Why Russia ignored the CIA’s terror attack warning
The attack on the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow suburbs, which left 137 people dead, has again raised questions about the effectiveness of intelligence in identi... (photo: AP / Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)
CIA   ISIS   Moscow Attack   Photos   Wikipedia: Crocus City Hall attack  
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network, November 9, 2018. CNN
Third country joins UK and US in accusing China of espionage hacks as coordinated pressure ...
New Zealand has joined the United States and the United Kingdom in accusing China of launching “malicious” cyberattacks through state-backed hackers, as Beijing comes... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/Arget)
China   Cyberattacks   New Zealand   Photos  
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming, July 17, 2020. Asiatimes
The dots connecting TikTok, US Steel and Chinese land buys
The House of Representatives passes a bill requiring China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American owner or be banned. President Joe Biden denounces Nippon Steel&... (photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/ Solen Feyissa)
ByteDance   China   Photos   US States  
El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Taipei Times
El Salvador’s Bukele is sabotaging his own Singapore dreams
While he has accomplished much, the leader should do more to balance the budget if he wants to significantly improve the economic prospects of his people | By Juan Pablo ... (photo: AP / Marco Ugarte)
Juan Pablo Spinetto   Nayib Bukele   Photos   Singapore dreams   Wikipedia: Nayib Bukele  
Prison of terrorists in Ramadia- Iraq,  Herded in small rooms where they eat, sleep and entertain themselves Asiatimes
Why ISIS-K has Russia in its terrorist sights
It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist terrorist attack. | At lea... (photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny)
Photos   Russia   Tajikistan   Terrorism  
Polling station of the Canadian federal election 2021 Indian Express
If democracy is to survive the age of AI, it must be updated
Between 2024 and 2025, at least 60 countries are set to hold their general or presidential elections. This list includes the US, India, Russia, Ukraine, the United Kingdo... (photo: Creative Commons)
AI   Democarcy   Elections   Photos  
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks after administered the oath for the Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Carrie Lam at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Saturday, July 1, 2017. Syrian Arab News Agency
Chinese President extends condolences to Russian President over Crocus deadly terrorist attack
Beijing, SANA-Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a condolence message to Russian President Putin over the deadly terrorist attack. | Xi emphasized that China o... (photo: AP / Kin Cheung)
Beijing   Chinese   Photos   Wikipedia: Xi Jinping   Xi Jinping  
Police officers detain a member of Aam Admi Party, or Common Man's Party, during a protest against the arrest of their party leader Arvind Kejriwal, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, March 22, 2024. Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India's most consequential politicians of the last decade in India held protests Friday against his arrest, which opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modis government before national elections. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) China.dot.org
Arrest of Delhi chief minister triggers protests ahead of India's elections
NEW DELHI, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Workers and supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man Party, on Friday protested against arrest of its chief and Delhi Chief ... (photo: AP / Dar Yasin)
Elections   India   Photos   Politics  
Maany signages hanging on the street, Hong Kong Asiatimes
What Article 23 means for the future of Hong Kong
Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed new security legislation on March 19, 2024, handing authorities in the semi-autonomous city-state further power to clamp down on dissent. | ... (photo: Creative Commons)
China   Hong Kong   Photos   Politics  
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Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., delivers his speech during the 88th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Quezon city, Philippines on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023.
Philippines’s Marcos promises measures after China’s ‘dangerous attacks’
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Bolshoi Theatre. There are also two large circuses in Moscow: Moscow State Circus and Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard[71] named after Yuri Nikulin.
Moscow Attack Underscores Misguided Priorities of Both Russia and US
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An iceberg drifts in the sea off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland. Icebergs form when chunks of ice calve, or break off, from glaciers, ice shelves, or a larger iceberg. The North Atlantic and the cold waters surrounding Antarctica are home to most of the icebergs on Earth.
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- Interior Minister, CM KP vow to eliminate terrorism
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Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle on Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. (AP Photo)
Chinese workers killed in suicide bomb blast as Pakistan grapples with attacks on Beijing’s interests
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