Tag: Asia & Pacific

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Resigning

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she will resign from her post no later than Feb. 7. “I am human, politicians are human,” she said at the Labour Party’s caucus meeting in Napier on Thursday. “We give all that we can for as long as we can. And then it’s time. And for me, it’s…


REPLAY 7:30 PM ET: ‘The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere’: Webinar From the Committee on the Present Danger: China

In the webinar “The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere: Implications for the USA and the Region,” hosted by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, panelists examine developments from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the implications for the region and the United States, as well as the strategy America should take to…


REPLAY: ‘The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere’: Webinar From the Committee on the Present Danger: China

In the webinar “The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere: Implications for the USA and the Region,” hosted by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, panelists examine developments from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the implications for the region and the United States, as well as the strategy America should take to…


‘The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere’: Webinar From the Committee on the Present Danger: China

In the webinar “The CCP Runs the Table Throughout the Western Hemisphere: Implications for the USA and the Region,” hosted by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, panelists examine developments from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the implications for the region and the United States, as well as the strategy America should take to…


Trump Vows to Ban Chinese Investment in US Farmland if Re-elected

Former President Donald Trump has promised to ban Chinese nationals from buying U.S. farmland or other critical industries if he retakes the White House. In a nearly three-minute campaign video released on Jan. 18 and shared with The Epoch Times, Trump sounded the alarm that China’s extensive economic influence in the country risks the United…


Trump Vows to Ban Chinese Investment in US Farmland if Reelected

Former President Donald Trump has promised to ban Chinese nationals from buying U.S. farmland or other critical industries if he retakes the White House. In a nearly three-minute campaign video released on Jan. 18, Trump sounded the alarm that China’s extensive economic influence in the country risks the United States falling under the communist regime’s…


BOJ Defies Market Bets for Policy Tweaks, Yen Tumbles

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan on Wednesday maintained ultra-low interest rates, including a bond yield cap it was struggling to defend, defying market expectations it would phase out its massive stimulus program amid mounting inflationary pressure. The surprise decision sent the yen skidding against other currencies and bond yields tumbling the most in decades, as investors…


Indonesia Says Magnitude 7 Quake Off Sulawesi, Residents Flee Buildings

JAKARTA—A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Wednesday, prompting panicked residents in some towns nearest to the epicenter to flee buildings and with the tremor felt in the neighboring Philippines. Indonesia’s geophysics agency said, however, there was no risk of a tsunami, and the U.S.–based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in a bulletin…


Philippine Court Acquits Nobel Laureate of Tax Charges Filed by Former Government

A Philippine court on Wednesday cleared a Nobel Prize-winning journalist and her news site of tax-evasion charges filed by the former Duterte government in 2018, a verdict that rights group hailed as “a victory” for the Philippine media. The court acquitted Maria Ressa and Rappler Holdings Corp. (RHC) as prosecutors failed to prove “beyond reasonable…


No Hope of Any Survivors in Nepal’s Deadliest Crash in 30 Years, Officials Say

KATHMANDU—Officials in Nepal said on Wednesday there was no chance of finding any survivors of the country’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, but workers will continue to search for the remains of the last missing passenger. Rescue teams used drones and rappelled down deep gorges on Tuesday to sift through the charred remains of…