Military officers in Gabon have declared they were seizing power from President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a stunning coup, threatening the family’s half-century rule over the central African nation.
Men in army uniform appeared on national television Wednesday to announce the president’s house arrest during the military takeover, prompting celebrations...
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo talked up American firms' desire to do business in China and her hopes for further engagement with Chinese officials on market access on Wednesday, after earlier comments over China being "uninvestible".
At a press conference in Shanghai, Raimondo said she had not expected any breakthroughs...
Ukrainian drones struck targets in at least six regions deep within Russia on Wednesday, including an airfield where they destroyed military transport planes, in one of the broadest volleys yet of Kyiv’s campaign to turn the tables on Moscow.
Russian officials described attacks on targets in the Pskov, Bryansk, Kaluga,...
The Biden administration unveiled a new rule Wednesday to extend overtime pay to an additional 3.6 million salaried white-collar workers in the United States.
While most hourly workers are entitled to overtime pay, non-hourly professional workers — executive, managerial, administrative and professional employees — are exempt from overtime pay unless...
North Korea fired at least two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the U.S. separately deployed B-1B bombers for allied air drills.
Japan’s defence ministry also reported that at least one suspected ballistic missile was launched, while Japanese media reported that two...
James Cleverly has defended his meetings with senior Chinese government members, saying it would be a mistake to try to isolate China, during the first visit to Beijing in five years by a UK foreign secretary.
Cleverly said he believed China genuinely cared about UK views on human rights, following his meetings...
The divergence between the Indian and Chinese read-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brief interaction with President Xi Jinping during the BRICS summit on August 23 clearly reveals that Beijing wants to push border issues to the background while projecting normalization of bilateral ties.
This divergence was also reflected in...
The decline in China’s industrial profits eased in July, though the slowing economic recovery and deflation risks remain an overhang for the sector.
Profits last month fell 6.7% from a year earlier, according to data published by the National Bureau of Statistics on Sunday. That compared with a drop of...
Last week’s US sanctioning of Chinese officials involved in Beijing’s ongoing criminal efforts to erase Tibet as a separate political, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious entity showed America at its best.
Few other governments give a hoot. Most cravenly look the other way.
Citing a recent UN report on the “forced assimilation” of...
Major shipping and logistics companies are engaged in a fierce race to acquire facilities across Asia, driven by the desire to assist their clients in diversifying their supply chains beyond China.
The accumulation of cash reserves during the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with disruptions and increased e-commerce spending, has spurred this...
