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.
MANILA, May 15 - It unfolded like a crime thriller: a fugitive making his escape under cover of darkness in the confused aftermath of a hail of gunfire.
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.
This comes as the Malaysian police said on Friday that investigations are ongoing into allegations that Low had attended secret meetings in Kuala Lumpur last year.
It accused London of seeking to tarnish Pyongyang’s image and undermine its ties with Russia.
May 15 occupies a charged place in Bangladesh’s political memory. The date is observed as “Farakka Day”, commemorating the 1976 long march led by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani protesting India’s diversion of Ganges water through the Farakka Barrage. Nearly half a century
In a letter to Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto, Chinese businesses said policy shifts on mining, export earnings and enforcement have raised costs and uncertainty.
Ms Sanae Takaichi will travel to Andong, the capital of North Gyeongsang province.
The outages are occurring in the hottest month of the year, when demand for air conditioning ramps up.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 15 - Militants stormed a security outpost in Pakistan's northwest, ramming a vehicle filled with explosives into the camp before waging a gun battle that killed at least eight troops and injured 35 others, two security officials said on Friday.
Active and pragmatic diplomacy helps to achieve Mr To Lam's goal to make Vietnam strong and resilient, said an expert.
Police and volunteers launched a rescue operation, using heavy equipment to dig for the victims.
The concept, which draws on the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describes the danger that conflict can erupt when a rising power challenges an established one.
Ronald Dela Rosa had been taking refuge at the Senate but slipped out before dawn on May 14.
MANILA, May 15 - The Philippines anti-graft chief has ordered a six-month suspension of the head of Senate security following a chaotic shootout inside the upper chamber on Wednesday that later led to the \"escape\" of a politician wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Myanmar’s military is trying to sell former State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi’s transfer from prison to a “designated residence” as a gesture of mercy. But the move has raised basic questions: where is she, who has seen her and can anyone outside the junta verify her health and
It ruled that her exclusion from a female-only app because she appeared to be a man amounted to an act of discrimination.
The former imperial garden now houses the offices of the Communist Party and the state council.
Vote comes a week after lawmakers ousted the nation's former pro-China prime minister.
The two leaders concluded two days of talks in Beijing.
BEIJING, May 15 - U.S. President Donald Trump said his patience with Iran is running out and he had agreed in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the Islamic republic cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and must re-open the Strait of Hormuz.