Asia Pacific
South Koreans become a year or two younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting ...Biden calls Chinese President Xi a dictator
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called Xi Jinping a dictator, a day after top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken visited Beijing to stabilize ...Blinken in China for rare trip amid frosty ties and dim hopes for progress
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began meetings in Beijing on Sunday, the first top American diplomat to visit China in five ...Taiwan sends up fighters as Chinese warplanes cross strait’s median line
Taiwan’s air force scrambled into action on Sunday after spotting 10 Chinese warplanes crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, ...Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks
The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with the international ...Japan puts missile defence on alert as North Korea warns of satellite launch
Japan put its ballistic missile defences on alert on Monday and warned that it would shoot down any projectile that threatened its ...Separatists in Indonesia’s Papua threaten to shoot NZ hostage if denied talks
Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot they took hostage in February if countries do not comply ...Indonesia, Iran sign preferential trade agreement
The leaders of Indonesia and Iran on Tuesday signed a preferential trade agreement to expand economic relations during an official visit by ...G7 offers Ukraine long-term support, Zelenskiy laments Bakhmut ‘tragedy’
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian ...Zelenskiy joins Japan G7 as democracies take aim at Russia and China
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday to Japan, ...