Dozens of zoo tigers die after contracting bird flu in southern Vietnam
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Philippines accuses China of assaulting Vietnamese fishermen in South China Sea
MANILA — The Philippines accused Chinese maritime officials on Oct 4 of carrying out an "unjustified assault" on Vietnamese fishermen in the contested waters of the South China Sea, adding its voice to a fraught dispute over the confrontation.
Dozens of zoo tigers die after contracting bird flu in southern Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said.
Australia’s military as a force for sexual abuse
“Participants expected the costs of war, but they were not prepared for the costs of service,” explain Ben Wadham and James Connor in their new book, the first independent study of military institutional abuse in the Australian Defence Force.
China, Vietnam drag down Asean+3 economic growth forecast
This year’s growth forecast for the Asean plus three economies – China and Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea – has weakened from 4.4 per cent to 4.2 per cent, “primarily due to adjustments for China and Vietnam”, according to the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro).
The lost art of understanding the enemy
On October 1, 1970, China’s People’s Daily published a picture on its front page showing American writer Edgar Snow standing next to Mao Zedong on the Tien An Men gate tower. Snow, the author of the acclaimed “Red Star Over China”, had met Mao in Yenan in 1936, and while not himself a Communist, never hid his sympathies both for China and its new regime.
Is China downplaying ‘restrained’ clash with Vietnamese fishermen near Paracel Islands?
Observers also say the latest incident could be the “tip of the iceberg”, and Hanoi could pivot from its low-key diplomatic approach to its maritime dispute with Beijing if similar incidents were to recur.