PINGTUNG (Taiwan): Taiwan’s navy showed off its latest long-range surveillance drone yesterday as the island’s out gunned armed forces push to counter China’s increasingly muscular rhetoric and military exercises. China still sees Taiwan as part of its territory to be reunified, despite the two sides being ruled separately since they
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” after receiving a letter from US President Donald Trump ahead of a second summit between the two, Pyongyang’s state media reported yesterday. Kim was handed the letter by a North Korean envoy who met Trump at the White House last
BEIJING: China said yesterday that Chinese-Australian author and democracy advocate Yang Hengjun was detained on national security grounds, becoming the latest Western citizen to face such accusations from Beijing. Yang’s detention comes at a moment of heightened tension between Western countries and an increasingly muscular Beijing, which recently detained two
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s strongman premier Hun Sen yesterday called on his country’s military to “destroy” opponents if the government comes under threat, in a tirade in which he described himself as the “the one who steers the wheel” of the army. The 66-year-old premier has in recent weeks turned up
ADELAIDE (Australia): Temperatures in southern Australia topped 49 degrees yesterday, shattering previous records as sizzling citizens received free beer and heat-stressed bats fell from trees. The Bureau of Meteorology reported temperatures of 49.5 Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) north of Adelaide, while inside the city temperatures reached 47.7 Celsius, breaking a record
SEOUL: The woman who started South Korea’s #MeToo movement said yesterday she hoped other victims will take heart from the jailing of the senior prosecutor she accused of assault. Seo Ji-hyun said she was groped by her superior Ahn Tae-geun at a funeral in 2010, and that he had her
LONDON: Chelsea signed Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain (pic) on loan from Juventus until the end of the season on Wednesday as boss Maurizio Sarri looks to ignite his spluttering attack. Higuain will be reunited with Sarri, who managed the 31-year-old at Napoli and made him his top target in the
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain talisman Neymar has suffered a fresh injury to his right metatarsal, the club said yesterday, marring the holders’ advance to the last 16 of the French Cup with a 2-0 win over Strasbourg. A fractured metatarsal curtailed the Brazilian’s last season, and the recurrence comes just three
LONDON: Arsenal manager Unai Emery says Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made Manchester United a much more dangerous team since taking over from Jose Mourinho. Emery’s side host United in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday and the Spaniard expects a stern test from Solskjaer’s revitalised team. Arsenal drew
BURTON-ON-TRENT (United Kingdom): Pep Guardiola admitted he was relieved Manchester City sealed their place in the League Cup final without any injuries in a 1-0 win on Burton’s “dangerous” pitch on Wednesday. Guardiola’s side had thrashed Burton 9-0 in the semi-final first leg earlier in January to effectively guarantee they
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