Nearly three years after his failed bromance with Donald Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is once again angling for United States (US) attention. North Korea has tested a new, high-tech missile and hinted that it may agree to restart talks with South Korea, where President Moon Jae-in desperately wants to resuscitate his moribund outreach to the North.

The Myanmar military's crackdown on anti-coup protesters has displaced close to a quarter of a million people, a United Nations (UN) rights envoy said Wednesday.The junta has stepped up its use of lethal force to quash mass demonstrations against a 1 February coup which ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.At least 738 people have been killed and 3,300 are languishing in jails as political prisoners, according to a local monitoring group."Horrified to learn that...

The European Union (EU) on Monday announced sanctions on 10 Myanmar junta officials and two conglomerates linked to the military over the coup and bloody crackdown on protesters in their country.The military has ramped up its attempts to crush dissent following mass demonstrations against its ousting of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with at least 737 civilians killed and the press increasingly under attack.International pressure has been steadily building on the junta, although it has so

United States (US) President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that imposes a slate of new sanctions against Russia, as well as expelling 10 diplomats from the US, in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference.President Biden said he warned Russia President Vladimir Putin about the sanctions when they spoke by telephone in a “candid, respectful conversation” on 13 April.

The United States (US) on Friday demanded swift action from the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Myanmar amid a push for a resolution to pressure the military junta to restore democracy."The military needs to feel the cost associated with its horrific actions.

China on Wednesday (31 March) said it wanted a "democratic transition" in military-ruled Myanmar, but ruled out sanctions at a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting."China hopes that Myanmar will restore peace, stability and constitutional order as early as possible and continue to steadily advance democratic transition," Ambassador Zhang Jun told the closed-door meeting, according to a statement."Maintaining peace and stability in Myanmar is in the co

Mention the Boxer Rebellion nowadays, and most people in the west would look baffled. Not so the Chinese, who have longer memories.They have not forgotten the invasion launched in 1900 by the United States (US), Britain, Germany, France and other members of the Eight-Nation Alliance to suppress the anti-foreigner, anti-missionary uprising.

Myanmar's junta on Tuesday defended its seven-week crackdown that has left more than 260 democracy protesters dead, insisting it would not tolerate "anarchy".The junta has unleashed deadly violence as it struggles to quell nationwide protests against the 1 February ousting of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.In a news conference in the capital Naypyidaw, junta spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun put the death toll lower at 164."I am sad because these violent terrorist

The European Union (EU) and the United States (US) slapped sanctions Monday on top police and military commanders linked to last month's coup in Myanmar, as pro-democracy demonstrators went back to the streets in defiance of a violent crackdown on protest.The junta is increasingly using deadly force to crush activists who have risen up against the military's ousting of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on 1 February.In a bid to pile international pressure on the regime, the European

Myanmar's generals came under increased diplomatic pressure Thursday over the coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi, as India joined the United States (US) and other countries in calling for a restoration of democracy, and Britain and Canada announced sanctions against the junta.As the ruling generals pressed on with a drive to stymie nationwide opposition, Myanmar's giant neighbour India called in a joint statement along with the US, Japan and Australia - all members of the so-called