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TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -- A U.S. warship sailed through the narrow Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, less than two weeks before Taiwan's new president takes office, prompting an angry denunciation from Beijing.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian labor union leader has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with comments he made in a live broadcast on Facebook two years ago that criticized the arrest of a casino worker, an official of a local rights group said Wednesday.
Twenty years have passed since the May 1, 2004, enlargement of the European Union that brought 10 additional members into the bloc, including the Baltic states and former Communist bloc nations such as Hungary and Poland.
HONG KONG (AP) -- An appeals court Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government's request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub.
HONG KONG (AP) — An appeals court Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub.
Analysts say there has been “a lot of noise” but the strategic capital Washington places on India as a counterweight to growing Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region would ensure bilateral relations do not spiral out of control and disagreements are compartmentalised.
Japan’s “traditional and business interests, political pressure and gender inequalities often prevent journalists from completely fulfilling their role as watchdogs”, Reporters Without Borders said, arguing that since “the rise to power of the nationalist right” in 2012, Japanese journalists have experienced “a climate of distrust, even hostility”.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan is U.K. minister of state for the Indo-Pacific region.