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SEOUL — North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on March 18 for the first time in two months, at a time when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul to attend a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk-yeol on advancing democracy.
BEIJING — China aims to "contain" foreign interference over Taiwan and "resolutely combat" any efforts towards the island's formal independence this year, which is the sensitive 75th anniversary of the founding of communist China, state media said on Friday (Feb 23).
TAIPEI - Taiwan's defence ministry said on Saturday (Feb 10) it had detected eight Chinese balloons crossing the Taiwan Strait in the previous 24 hours, two of which flew across the island, in an uptick of activity at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday.
TAIPEI -- Shih Ming-teh, who died of liver cancer on his 83rd birthday, was a champion of Taiwan's brutal and bloody struggle for democracy and played a defining role in Asia's democratization. He spent collectively more than a quarter of a century behind bars under Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime and allied himself with other Asian fighters for democracy such as Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia.
At the Taipei train station, a Chinese human rights activist named Cuicui watched with envy as six young Taiwanese politicians campaigned for the city’s legislative seats. A decade ago, they had been involved in parallel democratic protest movements — she in China, and the politicians on the opposite side of the Taiwan Strait.
A Thai man was given a 50-year prison sentence on Thursday for criticising the monarchy – the longest jail term ever handed down under the kingdom’s strict royal insult laws, a legal rights group said.
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Taiwan is "a powerful affirmation of democracy," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the World Economic Forum's annual conference here Wednesday, saying the self-governing island plays a crucial role as a "remarkable contributor to the global commons."
BANDAR LAMPUNG, Indonesia (AP) — A former Jakarta governor seeking Indonesia’s presidency said democracy is declining in the country and pledged to make changes to get it back on track.