Map of Senkaku / Diaoyu

China-Japan tensionsby Bill Gertz U.S. officials are monitoring rising tensions between China and Japan over Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain who is accused of ramming his boat into two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku islands north of Taiwan and south of Okinawa. The islands have been Japanese territory for decades and […]

Brunei implements stoning to death under new anti-LGBT laws

The tiny Southeast Asian country of Brunei is introducing strict new Islamic legal guidelines that makes homosexual sex an offence punishable through stoning to death. The new measures, set to commence Wednesday, additionally cowl a range of other crimes consisting of punishment for theft by means of amputation. The lawby and large applies to Muslims, […]