by Tyler | Jan 15, 2020 | Asia, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong, Hong Kong police, National Security, protests, Trending
Hong Kong Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma said on Monday that a special “task force” will consider “how best and how expeditiously” to handle the enormous number of criminal trials related to the ongoing protest movement.
by Tyler | Jan 15, 2020 | Asia, China, National Security, Taiwan, Trending, Tsai Ing-wen, Wang Yi
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi took time from his visit to Zimbabwe on Monday to condemn Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen for being re-elected in a landslide, declaring that Taiwan’s “separatists” would “stink for 10,000 years.”
by Tyler | Jan 13, 2020 | Asia, Environment, eruption, Phillippines, Pre-Viral, Trending, volcano
The Philippines’ second-most active volcano erupted on Sunday, prompting warnings of a hazardous “volcanic tsunami” as tens of thousands of villagers were evacuated.
by Tyler | Jan 3, 2020 | Asia, Kim Jong-un, Korea peninsula, military, National Security, North Korea, nuclear weapons, South Korea, Surveillance aircraft, Trending
The U.S. reportedly once again flew a surveillance aircraft over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday after North Korea hinted at developing new, possibly nuclear, weapons.
by Tyler | Jan 1, 2020 | Asia, China, Hong Kong, National Security, New Years Eve, protests, Trending
Hundreds of Hong Kongers attended a rally on Monday night to honor those who were killed and injured during seven months of demonstrations.
by Tyler | Dec 31, 2019 | Asia, China, Chinese Communist Party, gun control, Mass Shootings, National Security, Trending
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday used the weekend’s shootings to argue that gun ownership is “out of control” in the United States and mass shootings are “shocking in a U.S. allegedly governed by law.”
