Section: Malaysia
China extends military splurge with 10.1% budget increase
BEIJING: China unveiled a fresh double-digit spending boost for its military – the world’s largest – on Thursday with a 10.1% increase in 2015, as it pursues a series of territorial disputes with its neighbours. Beijing plans to raise its military spending to 886.9 billion yuan ($141.4 billion), according to a budget report to the annual...
Polish PM chastises deputy for warnings over Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s prime minister has chastised her coalition partner for describing Ukraine’s economy as on the brink of disintegration and suggesting Poland could face a flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees across its frontiers. …read more Source: The...
Senior diplomats to discuss next steps for Ukraine in Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) – Senior Russian, Ukrainian, German and French officials will meet in Berlin on Friday to discuss eastern Ukraine and next steps needed towards implementing a peace accord struck three weeks ago in Minsk, Germany’s foreign minister said. …read more Source: The...
Strengthening Ukrainian army is in Europe's interests – Polish official
WARSAW (Reuters) – The head of Poland’s National Security Council said on Thursday that it was in the interests of Europe, Poland and Ukraine to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces as this would help to de-escalate the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Russia says concerned by talk of U.S. arms supplies to Kiev
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday Moscow was deeply concerned with continued talk of the United States starting large-scale arms supplies to Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine passes law to boost armed forces by a third
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to increase the size of the armed forces by a third as Kiev fights pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source: The...
Rescuers find 32 dead miners in east Ukraine mine
DONETSK: Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Rescuers find 32 dead miners in east Ukraine mine
Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said on Thursday. “32 bodies of dead miners of the Zasyadko mine have been found” by early morning, the emergency ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a statement,...
Ukraine military says one soldier killed in past 24 hours in east
KIEV (Reuters) – One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and another wounded in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine, military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said on Thursday, despite a ceasefire deal meant to decrease tensions. …read more Source: The...
Spain arrests Ukraine’s ex-finance minister
MADRID: Spanish police on Wednesday detained Ukraine’s former finance minister Yuri Kolobov (pix) who is wanted by Kiev on charges of embezzlement and financial wrongdoing, a police source said. The 41-year-old, who served under ousted pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych, was arrested in Altea, a hilltop village on the Mediterranean...
