Vietnam to crack down on Chinese goods relabelled to beat US tariffs
Vietnam has said it will crackdown on goods of Chinese origin illegally relabelled “Made in Vietnam” by exporters seeking to avoid US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Vietnamese customs have found scores of such cases amid the ongoing US-China trade dispute, the department said in a statement posted to a government website on Sunday. “The faking […]
The US just quietly challenged China on something Beijing promised to go to war over
President Donald Trump has engaged China in a trade war that has global markets holding their breath, but his administration recently challenged Beijing on an issue Chinese officials have promised to go to war over. The US military’s recent Indo-Pacific Strategy paper, published last Saturday, goes further than perhaps any US document ever issued in how it […]
Cambodia’s Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of comments Lee made about Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia which ended Pol Pot’s genocidal “killing fields” regime. In the remarks, which have stirred Cold War animosity and drawn a strong response from Vietnam, Lee referred to the Vietnamese action […]
Komodo Dragon: the majestic lizard of ASEAN
Imagine yourself wandering in tropical Savanna forest where two sturdy cacao-colored animals were wrestling to blood for female’s approval to mate. This picturesque scene is due to roll from May to August and the female will have a role to lay 30 eggs in the next 9 months. Komodo dragons are the given name to […]
From Ashes to Oil to Ships to Modern Japan.
Here is a little story that is at the core of Japanese economic recovery after WW2 but it is little known, even in Japan. After the war. Japan was heavily in debt and most industries were still in shambles. The government was working on a stimulus project but it wasn’t easy. Japan needed petroleum but […]
Senate Considering South China Sea Sanctions on China As Massive Trade War Rattles Relations
A bi-partisan group of U.S. senators will reintroduce legislation Thursday that would allow the government to sanction Chinese individuals and groups involved in Beijing’s activity in the South and East China Seas The “South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act”—sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, […]
Vietnam could emerge as a developed economy: expert
A corner of Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Sydney (VNA) – The prolonging trade war between the US and China makes it easier for Vietnam to continue its upward trajectory toward becoming a developed economy, Bennett Murray recently wrote on the ‘Foreign Policy’ paper. He cited the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment’s report as saying that the […]
Hong Kong protest draws hundreds of thousands over extradition bill
Several hundred thousand people took to the streets in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest a new extradition law that would allow China to extradite suspects from the autonomous territory to face charges in mainland China. The organizers say more than 500,000 people showed up, with the protesters wearing all white and chanting “step down” and “shelve the […]
Atrocities on Rohingyas: OIC for suing Myanmar at ICJ
The Organisation of Islamic Conference has called for launching the case of Myanmar’s human rights violations against the Rohingyas at the International Court of Justice. The 14th Islamic Summit Conference held in Makkah on Friday stressed the need for international, independent, and transparent investigation into the human rights violations, including sexual violence and aggression against […]
Vietnamese men denied visas for life-saving transplant for brother in San Jose
Two Vietnamese brothers who petitioned to travel to the United States to donate bone marrow to their dying brother in San Jose were denied temporary visas by the U.S. government, according to the family. “We don’t know what to do,” said Trinh Colisao, 33, whose father, Tu Le, has an aggressive form of blood cancer. […]