Japan's opposition parties on Wednesday submitted a no-confidence motion in the justice minister to the lower house of parliament and in doing so delayed the passage of a controversial anti-terror conspiracy bill that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is ardently trying to force into law.
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Members of the Chinese press from Asia, Europe and America gathered yesterday for one of the largest news media gatherings in Asia. The 49th annual conference of The Chinese Language Press Institute officially kicked off with 120 press group representatives meeting at the Dongfang Hotel in Guangzhou. The program for the conference included talks by notable representatives from various media groups covering a diverse range of topics related to the news industry.
Armed groups continued to attack a town in northern Myanmar's Shan state as clashes broke out between Myanmar government forces and ethnic armed groups last weekend, the Information Committee of the State Counselor's Office said Sunday.
Two vehicles carrying aid workers to care for displaced people have been attacked by a combined forces of three ethnic armed groups as the vehicles were heading for the 105th Mile Muse Border Trade Zone in Myanmar's northern Shan state, said the Information Committee of the State Counselor's Office Tuesday.
Myanmar government is making efforts to pave way for non-signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Cesaefire Accord (NCA) to join and complete the signing before a national-level political dialogue is to start next month, official media reported Friday.
The United States and Russia should consider pulling out of Syria if they cannot agree to a ceasefire, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Monday.
A nationwide ceasefire in Syria brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect on Monday evening, the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year-old civil war.
Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar's ethnic tribes gathered Wednesday in the country's capital for historic peace talks with the government aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is launching a major push to end decades of fighting between rebels and the military, with many of the country's myriad armed groups gathering for a peace conference in the capital Naypyitaw.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference Wednesday (Aug 31) aimed at ending wars that have blighted the country since its independence.
Myanmar's ceasefire non-signatory armed groups, represented by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC)'s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN), has vowed to continue negotiation with the government on all-inclusive peace process, according to a press release of the UNFC published on Monday.
France was stung by terrorism once more late Thursday, as a truck plowed through a crowd of revelers celebrating France’s Bastille Day holiday, killing at least 84 people and wounding more than 100.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will hold talks with representatives of non-signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Cease fire Accord (NCA) in Yangon on July 17.
When Bangladesh dismissed the Islamic State’s (IS) claim of responsibility for the deadly hostage crisis that gripped Dhaka’s diplomatic zone over the weekend, some questioned if authorities were in denial.
Myanmar's Preparatory Committee for Holding the 21st Century Panglong Ethnic Conference has outlined the policy guidelines for the peace process, according to U Zaw Htay, spokesman of the President's Office on Wednesday.
In the aftermath of Bangladesh's worst hostage crisis that left dozens of people, including 18 foreigners and two police officers dead, questions about the efficacy of the country's mechanisms to rein in militant threats are now being asked.
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