China's Defense Minister Chang Wanquan said on Sunday that efforts should be made to boost development of the nation's coastal defense.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces started an air-ground live-fire drill in southwest China's Yunnan Province, close to the border with Myanmar, on Tuesday.
China demonstrates future strategies for modern and multi-functional armed forces in its latest military whitepaper Tuesday.
Amid unabated Taliban-led insurgency and frequent suicide attacks, it is almost unthinkable that Afghanistan has had no defense minister for over seven months and this situation, according to political observers, could further add to the breakdown of security in the war-torn country.
Burundian army spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza has defied what he called rumors that there are divisions within the east African country's military.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speaks to state radio on Thursday, commending security and defense fores who did not join coup plotters, and urged solders who are still behind the coup to "surrender."
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a package of defense bills on Thursday and eyed their approval in the Diet before July.
The effort of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to emasculate and revise the country's war-renouncing constitution encountered a mass protest on Sunday, the country's 68th Constitution Memorial Day, when he returned from the United States with the updated bilateral defense guidelines that will result in unconstitutional revision of security-related legislation.
U.S. and Japan announced on Monday new guidelines for bilateral defense cooperation, allowing Japan's self defense forces to take on more ambitious global role that the Shinzo Abe administration has been seeking.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Thursday arrived in South Korea, the second leg of his first Asian tour since he took office in February. After finishing the three-day tour to Japan, one of the two major U.S. allies in Asia along with South Korea, he flied over to Seoul.
Defense ministers from the 10 nations of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) agreed here Monday to cooperate in tackling the grave security threat from the Islamic State (IS).
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh left for Langkawi, Malaysia on Sunday to attend the 9th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting to be held from Monday.
Ruling party lawmakers in South Korea has put forward views that it would be necessary to adopt the U.S.-developed missile defense system to enhance defense capabilities against what they called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear and missile threats.
China on Thursday announced a 10.1-percent rise in its national defense budget in 2015, the lowest growth in five years as the country confronts mounting pressure in the face of an economic slowdown.
China will raise its defense budget by around 10 percent this year, compared with last year's 12.2 percent, a spokeswoman for the annual session of the country's top legislature said Wednesday.
China refuted the annual military balance report of a British think tank saying China lacks transparency in its growing military spending, urging them to view the country's development in an objective, just and rational way.
The White House on Thursday welcomed the Senate vote that confirmed Ash Carter to be the new chief to run the Pentagon, looking forward to his role in working with the Republican-controlled Congress on defense spending issues.
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