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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Four South Korean coast guard personnel were wounded Monday while trying to apprehend Chinese sailors in Korean waters, a coast guard official said. The coast guard tried to stop the Chinese ship on suspicion of illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea, but the sailors...

Competing visions and expectations complicate China-US ties. They need to try and walk in each other’s shoes, argues Shen Dingli. It has been ‘normal’ in recent decades for China-US relations to experience regular turbulence. Although the two countries have frequently...

In April, the U.S. Marine Corps Command will start moving reinforcements to a military base in Australia, the American newspaper Marine Corps Times reports. Sergei Sayenko has some details. About 200 Hawaii-based U.S. marines will be sent to the Robertson Barracks base in Darwin in northern...

Interview with Professor Evgeny Bazhanov, Director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation. Why would the US and Philippines conduct something like unprecedented naval exercise in the region? Well, I think it is a very well know fact that America strives for supremacy in the...

On Monday, 7,000 U.S. and Philippine troops started military exercises in the South China Sea near the disputed Scarborough Shoal. The drill began only a week after an incident involving eight Chinese fishing vessels, Chinese and Filipino warships and coast guard vessels and a Chinese aircraft...

The Philippines has brushed aside the joint naval exercises between the China and Russia, saying they do not add to tensions with China. Six days of joint naval exercises are under way between China and Russia. The drills, launched on Sunday, are taking place in the Yellow Sea off...

Last week, the Philippine government protested what it called China’s incursion into the country’s territorial waters in Scarborough Shoal. It also vociferously opposed North Korea’s decision to launch a rocket into space because of the debris that might land on Philippine soil. But while it has...

TAIPEI - Three Taiwanese legislators and several top military officers flew to the disputed Spratly islands Monday to renew their territorial claim amid mounting tensions in the South China Sea. The three legislators -- all sitting on the parliament's defense committee -- landed on Taiping...

SEOUL — On the evening of July 10, Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, and Hahn Ji-seon, a female Korean friend, were riding a bus near Seoul when a man in the back began hurling racial and sexist slurs at them. The situation would be a familiar one to many Korean women who have dated...

Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has railed for years against the Japanese government’s waffling over how much responsibility it bears for one of the ugliest chapters in its wartime history: the enslavement of women from...

A new year brings new opportunities for harsh rhetoric toward China. On issues ranging from Beijing’s valuation of its currency to China’s military modernization program, to the PRC’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea, critics in the United States are voicing shrill complaints...

Unless you live in Vietnam, very few people know what Vietnam government, officials and general Vietnamese people really thinks of the Khmer Krom people. One thing is for sure, its not flattering at the very least. “Backwards”, “lazy” and “stupid” are some of the well known phrases used to...

The ongoing disputes about the South China Sea mostly originate from Vietnam. The biggest challenge of China's insistence on a peaceful solution can also be laid at Vietnam's door. Depending on how the situation develops, China has to be ready for two plans: negotiating with Vietnam for a...

Cause: India to Replicate Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Indians who haven’t yet seen Cambodia’s 12th-century Angkor Wat temple have reason to cheer: the World Heritage site is being recreated on the banks of holy River Ganges, in the eastern state of Bihar. To be built by the...

Geoffrey Gunn The deaths stemming from the great famine of 1944-45, which reached its zenith in March-April 1945 in Japanese-occupied northern Vietnam, eclipsed in scale all human tragedies of the modern period in that country up until that time. The demographics vary from French estimates of...

Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to buy its first submarines to patrol its vast coastline but officials were quick to deny that the country was in an arms race with neighbouring Singapore. They said the three French submarines worth up to 1.04 billion euros ($1.1 billion) will be used to...

Indonesia Decides to Buy Korean Made Submarines An HDW 209 Type 1400 (this particular sub, S31, is Tamoio part of Brazil's Tupi Class) in what looks like "Sepetiba" Rio de Janeiro's harbour. Indonesia's three new submarines will be similar. The HDW family tree with HDW 209 on several...

Chinese brands, with their low prices, are selling like hot cakes as Latin America's consumer class expands amid rising incomes. Reporting from Lima, Peru, and Bogota, Colombia — At first, Lima taxi driver Mario Segura was disgusted by the thought of buying a Chinese-made car. He had...

Foreign portfolio investment capital flow to Vietnam has nearly stopped, investment funds have been trying to sell securities, while there is no sign showing that they would come back. The bad debt ratio of the total outstanding loans of the banking system rose from 2.5 percent in late...