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TAIPEI — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets around Taiwan's parliament on Friday (May 24) to demonstrate against contested parliamentary reforms, in a protest also marked by anger over China's perceived influence on the island's democracy.
BEIJING/TAIPEI — China staged mock missile strikes and dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles and bombers on Friday, state television CCTV said, as part of two-day exercises Beijing has said were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.
BEIJING — China's military started its second day of war games around Taiwan on May 24, with drills to test its ability to "seize power" and control key areas, exercises it has said were launched to punish Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te.
TAIPEI/BEIJING — Taiwan's military mobilised its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island, after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan on May 23 in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
SEOUL — The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will hold their first trilateral summit in more than four years in Seoul on May 26-27, Seoul's presidential office said on May 23.
HANOI — Vietnam's parliament elected police minister To Lam as the state president on Wednesday (May 22), in a move analysts see as a "stepping stone" for Lam to bid later for the position of chief of the ruling Communist Party, the country's top job.
BANGKOK — A Thai minister at the centre of a pending legal complaint seeking the dismissal of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin resigned on Tuesday (May 21), in an effort to insulate the premier from possible repercussions.
BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Taiwan's newly-inaugurated President Lai Ching-te "disgraceful" on Tuesday (May 21), stepping up Beijing's rhetoric just a day after he took office.