Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 21, 2022. (ALI KHARA / REUTERS) KABUL- The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered […]
Japan's Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Minoru Terada arrives at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official residence in Tokyo, Japan August 10, 2022. REUTERS/ ISSEI KATO/ FILE PHOTO TOKYO — Japan's internal affairs minister resigned on Sunday in connection with a funding scandal, becoming the third cabinet member to leave in less than a month […]
A pedestrian walks with an umbrella to shield from the sun in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on June 28, 2022. (PHILIP FONG / AFP) TOKYO — Japanese opposition parties on Wednesday stepped up calls for internal affairs minister Minoru Terada to step down following further revelations of a political funds scandal. READ MORE: Japan replaces scandal-hit […]
JAKARTA, Oct 20, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The High-Level Intergovermental Meeting on the Final Review of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities (HLIGM-FRPD), has started this morning at Fairmont Hotel, Jakarta, Wednesday (19/10). The meeting took place hybrid from 19 to 21 October, and attended by 53 member states […]
Not a week goes by without the United States and its allies smearing China or the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with fabricated stories. For decades, the city has fared remarkably well on the economic front, rising from an entrepot and labor-intensive manufacturing center to an international financial, communications, trade and innovation hub. Notwithstanding this […]
Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah arrives for the US-ASEAN Special Summit at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah announced an early reshuffle of cabinet ministers on Tuesday afternoon in a special speech broadcasted nationwide. The Sultan himself […]
SINGAPORE, Feb 21, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hon. Teodoro L. Locsin Jr., Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, inaugurated the new Philippine ePassport Renewal Center in Singapore on 28 January 2022 in the presence of other distinguished dignitaries. In a bid to ease the ePassport renewal process for […]
The year 2021 witnessed Hong Kong turning for the better from chaos to stability. Under the National Security Law and the new electoral system, China’s security and Hong Kong’s stability are effectively safeguarded, anti-China forces in Hong Kong were held accountable, and the elections of the Election Committee and the Seventh Legislative Council have smoothly […]
Candidates for the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party pose prior to a joint news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sept 17, 2021. The contenders are (from left) Taro Kono, the cabinet minister in charge of vaccinations; Fumio Kishida, former foreign minister; Sanae Takaichi, former internal affairs minister; and […]
In recent years, China’s achievements have surpassed all expectations, and the United States has become increasingly paranoid. It realizes its postwar hegemony can no longer be taken for granted, and that its star is slowly fading. Ever since the United Kingdom-based Centre for Economics and Business Research reported in December 2020 that China will overtake […]
Last Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a fact sheet setting out a host of malicious acts of the United States in interfering in Hong Kong affairs and supporting anti-China, destabilizing forces. It also shows that the US is in breach of international practice. Sovereign equality is a basic norm of international relations and […]
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they keep social distancing to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 30, 2021. (AMR NABIL / AP) DUBAI – Saudi Arabia's Islamic Affairs […]
Hong Kong used to be called a “cultural desert”. As someone born in the city in the 1980s and raised here, I would not accept this label without a fight. In fact, local cultural and arts groups and their presentations have long been developing and growing in this city, thanks to those who cultivate the […]
Two weeks ago, when pupils were raising the national flag to mark National Security Education Day at schools across Hong Kong, the mainstream media in the West fit the snapshot of the moment into the prevailing rhetoric of “the demise of liberalism” in the city. Some media shed their crocodile tears to mourn the “end […]
When it comes to the United States' relationship with China, the Biden administration is repeating the folly of his predecessor. The words and deeds of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken are the best evidence of this. On Wednesday, Blinken released the so-called Hong Kong Policy Act Report and reported to the US Congress about […]
Since the end of Cold War, the United States has been the world’s sole superpower, and it has been trying to build a unipolar international system. US hegemony is based on systemic supremacy as well as material power, and it is therefore intent on maintaining the US-led international system. The US’ dominant position in international […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 16, 2020, Japan's internal affairs and communications minister Ryota Takeda delivers a speech during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) TOKYO – Japan’s internal affairs minister removed a senior bureaucrat from his post and apologized on Monday for what he […]