U.S. airlines’ website changes to Taiwan references ‘incomplete’, says China
Forty of 44 international airlines have amended their website references to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, China’s civil aviation regulator said on Thursday, adding that measures taken by U.S. airlines were still incomplete.
Pakistan’s Imran Khan on cusp of power, opponents cry foul
Pakistani cricket icon-turned-politician Imran Khan nudged closer to power on Thursday after a general election that has been marred by long delays in ballot counting and accusations of rigging by opponents.
Former Cambodia opposition party members fined for vote boycott appeal
Five former members of Cambodia’s outlawed opposition party were found guilty and fined $2,500 each on Thursday for calling for a boycott of Sunday’s general election.
In latest rapprochement, China defense minister to visit India
Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe has accepted an invitation to visit India and plans to do so by the end of this year, China said on Thursday, as a rapprochement between the two giant neighbors gathers pace.
U.S. opens way for India to escape sanctions over Russia arms imports
The United States has opened a path for India to avoid sanctions for buying arms from Russia, business leaders and experts said, almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a law penalizing such trade.
Ethiopian mega-dam manager found dead in his car: Fana news agency
The project manager of an Ethiopian mega-dam that is at the heart of a dispute between Addis Ababa and Egypt over fears it will reduce the Nile river’s flow has been found dead, state-affiliated media said on Thursday.
Eight bodies recovered after landslide at defunct Myanmar jade mine
Authorities in northern Myanmar recovered eight bodies on Thursday after a landslide that engulfed 27 small-scale miners, an official said, the latest disaster to hit a center of the Southeast Asian nation’s lucrative jade trade.
U.S. airlines’ changes to Taiwan references ‘incomplete’, China says
Forty of 44 international airlines have amended their website references to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, China’s civil aviation regulator said on Thursday, adding that measures taken by some U.S. airlines were still incomplete.
Blast outside U.S. embassy in China wounds lone suspect
A bomb exploded outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing on Thursday, wounding the lone assailant, the embassy said in a statement, but police described the weapon merely as a “firework device”.
China’s defense minister to visit India by year-end
China’s defense minister, Wei Fenghe, will visit India by the end of this year, following an invitation from the South Asian nation, defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang told a monthly news briefing on Thursday.
