Section: Asian Correspondent
6 crew missing after Danish cargo ship sinks near Indonesia
BATAM, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say six Filipino crewmen are missing after their cargo ship collided with a chemical tanker and sank near Indonesia. Six other crew members were rescued. Batam port official Gajah Rooseno said Thursday the Danish cargo ship Thorco Cloud collided with the chemical tanker Stolt Commitment about 8 miles (13...
MH370 relatives protest outside Malaysia Airlines offices in Beijing
Zhang Meiling, second from right, whose daughter and son-in-law were passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, gestures while speaking to journalists outside of the company’s offices in Beijing, Thursday. Pic: AP. About a dozen Chinese passenger relatives protested outside Malaysia Airlines offices in Beijing Thursday to vent their anger...
Russia’s UN draft on MH17 crash doesn’t call for tribunal
A man walks amongst the debris at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, last year. Pic: AP. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution demanding that those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last year be brought to justice — but eliminating the international...
Malaysia seeks ‘criminal accountability’ for Flight MH17 crash
A man walks amongst the debris at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine last year. Pic: AP. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Malaysia has told the U.N. Security Council that it plans to submit a resolution that would establish an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines...
Cambodian court acquits Ukraine lawmaker of rape
Pic: AP. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has acquitted a senior Ukrainian lawmaker of rape in a case he says was cooked up by political opponents. Phnom Penh Municipal Court says Mykola Kniazhytsky is not guilty of raping a teenage woman in 2011. The case drew a brief flurry of media interest in Ukraine after Interpol issued a red...
China, EU working on common approach to climate change
Miners shovel coal at a mine in China’s Hebei province. Pic: AP. BEIJING (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief says she’s confident the EU and China can agree to a common approach on climate change ahead of negotiations on carbon reductions in Paris this year. Federica Mogherini told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday...
Russian premier visits Thailand: More rubles rolling into Prayuth’s regime?
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) with Thai Prime Minister and military leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha during a state visit in Bangkok on April 8, 2015. Pic: AP. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Thailand this week was a rare and convenient foreign policy opportunity for the junta, writes Saksith Saiyasombut...
Russian premier visits Thailand: More rubles rolling to Prayuth’s regime?
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) with Thai Prime Minister and military leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha during a state visit in Bangkok on April 8, 2015. (Pic: AP) The visit by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev marks the first state visit by a Russian leader to Thailand in over a decade and also the first one by a non-Asian since...
Russia: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Moscow for Victory Day
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Pic: AP MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says the leader of North Korea is among 26 world leaders who have accepted invitations to Moscow to take part in celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. A highlight of the May 9 celebrations will be the...
Ex-Japan PM Yukio Hatoyama: Crimea vote was legitimate
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Pic: AP. MOSCOW (AP) — A former Japanese prime minister whose visit to Crimea brought harsh criticism at home says he’s convinced that the referendum leading to the peninsula’s annexation by Russia was legitimate. Yukio Hatoyama’s trip to Crimea this week was criticized both by the...
