The Japan Coast Guard said on Monday it has finished deploying 12 ships to exclusively patrol areas around Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands in the East China Sea amid China’s growing maritime assertiveness.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday during a phone conversation discussed issues on Syrian peace process.
After the signing of the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal among 12 Asia-Pacific states, U.S. President Barack Obama revealed a rather arrogant and outdated U.S.-centric mode of thinking.
Early in my week at CES 2016, the tech industry’s annual new-gadget confab in Las Vegas, I started making a list of everyday objects that inventors wanted to make “smart.”
As a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam will face both opportunities for growth and challenges when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is established by the yearend.
Thailand has planned to hold a bicycling event on Dec. 11 to celebrate the king's 88th birthday that falls on Dec. 5, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Wednesday.
China is the No. 1 job creator in part of Washington State's economy, Governor Jay Inslee told a group of Chinese journalists.
The second edition of China Film Forum took place Sunday on the sidelines of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, where professionals from China and Europe gathered to exchange views on the Chinese film industry.
The recently exposed U.S. spying on Japan, one of its most loyal "allies," has once again proved to the world that U.S. foreign polices are still based on realpolitik and it only sees other countries as objects to control, no matter whether they are "friends" or foes.
Russia considered possible missile deployment of the U.S. in Europe and other regions as counterproductive, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
The euro's dramatic slide against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies should be good news for the Italian economy, attracting more non-European tourists and lowering the prices for Italian experts. But a closer look at the numbers reveals some worrying aspects as well.
The euro's dramatic slide against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies should be good news for the Italian economy, attracting more non-European tourists and lowering the prices for Italian experts. But a closer look at the numbers reveals some worrying aspects as well.
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis on Wednesday encouraged Latin American leaders attending a regional summit there to seek common development goals by way of strengthening ties with regions including China and stepping up intra-community cooperation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for strengthening the country's armed forces to tackle challenges posed by other countries.
The West has no other choice but to lift the "cruel" sanctions against the Islamic republic, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said here on Monday.
The U.S. use of torture when interrogating prisoners captured in its "war on terror" has damaged the country's moral high ground and set back the global fight against the condemnable practice, a UN human rights expert said Thursday.
Nepal, which has around 3 percent of its population of 27 million who are considered persons with disabilities (PWDs), has been lagging behind other countries in ensuring their rights and privileges.