May 15 - China's U.N. ambassador on Friday criticized a proposed U.S.-Bahraini resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, saying the content and timing were not right and passing it would not be helpful.
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In barely half a year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pushed Japan’s defense policy into unfamiliar territory. The FY2026 main defense budget has reached ¥9.04 trillion (approximately $58
WASHINGTON, May 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump's two-day state visit to Beijing featured wide-ranging talks on Taiwan, Iran and trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping but yielded few concrete outcomes on the issues dividing the world's two largest economies.
Satrio Wiratama, born in November 2025, will make his public debut this month.
WASHINGTON, May 15 - Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 45-day extension of a ceasefire U.S. President Donald Trump declared on April 16, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.
Washington's ratcheting up of tariffs in 2025 has led Chinese factories to find new ways of doing business.
The Japanese Prime Minister later noted that the US President gave a “detailed explanation” of his talks with Xi.
The global energy crisis caused by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran is set to worsen in the coming months, as The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the world is “burning through its oil safety net.” Even though oil prices surged at the start of the war, which
The summit, high on optics and modest on deliverables, sought to stabilise ties in the short term.
The leaders discussed a range of topics, including trade and the Middle East.
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday accused US President Donald Trump of “orchestrating a $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer to line the pockets of his MAGA political allies” amid new reporting on the terms Trump is seeking in talks to
The US president says he wants Beijing and Taipei to "cool down" tensions over the self-governing island.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday suggested a Russian missile strike on a Kyiv apartment building that killed 24 people, including three children, could set back efforts to find a peaceful settlement to Moscow's war in Ukraine.
The pair had been widely expected to discuss extending the one-year tariff truce.
The union has threatened an 18-day walkout beginning May 21 if its demands are not met.
The US leader said Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The 244-page book was put together by Dr Goh's wife, Dr Phua Swee Liang, based on photographs, gifts, travel itineraries and personal records from his stint as an economic adviser to China between 1985 and 1990.
Jimmy Lai was found guilty in December on charges of foreign collusion and seditious publication and sentenced to 20 years in prison, in the harshest sentence doled out so far under a national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing.
Philippine Senator Ronald Dela Rosa is wanted by the ICC for his alleged role in the country’s deadly drug war.
Choreographed diplomacy, cordial optics and symbolic gestures defined the high-stakes Sino-US summit in Beijing, but whether these translate to concrete and lasting outcomes remains uncertain, say analysts.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he thinks Chinese President Xi Jinping is seriously considering releasing a detained pastor in China but that the case of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai \"is a tough one.\"
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Mr Trump that Lai’s case would be different.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he discussed lifting sanctions on Chinese companies that buy Iranian oil during his visit to Beijing and will make a decision soon.
Mr Trump said he will make a decision soon on the matter.
TOKYO, May 15 - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Friday she and U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed an \"ironclad\" bilateral alliance in a phone call, which Trump joined from aboard Air Force One hours after ending his two-day visit to China.
Nine of those charged are in custody, while the tenth - the alleged car driver - was killed in the blast.
Mr Trump said Mr Xi asked directly whether the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked the island.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 15 - President Donald Trump said on Friday he discussed U.S. arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks in Beijing and said he would soon make a decision on the matter, highlighting a flashpoint in U.S.-China relations.
Several cities in Thailand, including the capital Bangkok, suffer from seasonal smog.
The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
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NEW DELHI, May 15 - Tehran has \"no trust\" in the U.S. and is interested in negotiating with Washington only if it is serious, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday, as talks on ending the war remained on hold.
The designation covers both Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome and Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome.
MANILA, May 15 - The Philippine justice minister said on Friday that the country will \"definitely\" submit to a request from the International Criminal Court to arrest a top senator wanted for alleged crimes against humanity during his role in a bloody \"war on drugs\".
The proposal to gradually pass nearly 45 trillion dong (about US$1.8 billion) in accumulated losses from Vietnam Electricity (EVN) into future electricity prices reveals a deeper contradiction at the center of Hanoi’s economic strategy. For years, while Hanoi has persistently
A cliff near the mine collapsed on Thursday (May 14) in Sijunjung district, burying a group of miners working only 3m away, said West Sumatra police spokeswoman Susmelawati Rosya.
Disruptions to fuel and fertiliser supplies linked to the Middle East conflict are driving up food prices and living costs in the Philippines.
Few things enrage Donald Trump more than being upstaged, particularly when he is on the biggest stage of both his stints as US president — in Beijing. Though Trump World will deny that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did just that this week, he did. And global markets know it. Just as
Trump and Xi toured Zhongnanhai, the heavily guarded compound where China's top leaders live and work.
DAKAR, May 15 - Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are heading for a diplomatic battle over the leadership of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), with both fielding rival candidates as fighting grinds on in eastern Congo.