A DPRK student has sought refuge at the South Korean consulate in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing government sources in the city.
South Sudan's peace monitors have been holding consultations with various parties over the country's political crisis after President Salva Kiir sacked his rival Riek Machar as First Vice-President.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong has encouraged the parties directly concerned in the South China Sea issues to resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.
A video on South China Sea has been displayed recently on one of the giant electronic billboards at Times Square in New York City, explaining the historical and legal basis backing China's indisputable territorial sovereignty and rights in the region.
The United States does not take a position on the competing sovereignty claims to the land features in the South China Sea, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a foreign ministers' meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that the "page of the South China Sea arbitration has been turned over."
Decision between Seoul and Washington to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korean soil caused an outcry from college students as they held a rally in central Seoul to block the war risks-escalating U.S. weapons system from being installed in their homeland.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for an end to the political manipulation and sensationalization of the South China Sea issue.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday urged an end to the political manipulation and sensationalization of the South China Sea issue.
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reaffirmed their efforts on Monday to "promote peace, stability, mutual trust and confidence" in the South China Sea.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Sunday that China will continue sticking to the "dual-track" approach to solve the South China Sea issue.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday the move to deploy a THAAD missile defence system was “inevitable” because of a growing threat from DPRK and that division in the South over its deployment is what Pyongyang seeks.
Deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on South Korean soil will negatively affect peace on the Korean Peninsula as well as regional and global security as it breaks strategic balance and boost arms race, experts here said Thursday.
Dialogue is key to resolving disputes in the South China Sea, and China's "dual-track" approach offers an excellent opportunity for it.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday said thousands of people from the conflict-hit South Sudan have fled to Uganda following a recent fighting between rival army factions in the capital, Juba.
Zhong Jianhua, the Chinese government's Special Representative on African Affairs, will visit Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya from Wednesday to discuss the situation in South Sudan, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
DPRK’s state radio has recently broadcast strings of indecipherable numbers, Seoul officials said on Tuesday, in a possible resumption of a cold war-era method of sending coded messages to spies operating in South Korea.
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