STRUCTURES LIKE UNSC HAVE TEETH BUT LITTLE OR NO APPETITE TO BITE: UN CHIEFMultilateral instruments such as the UN Security Council have teeth but"show little or no appetite to bite, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said ashe underlined the need for "effective and inclusive" multilateralism.As the worl
DUTERTE ON SCS: AVOID ESCALATING TENSIONMANILA — Expressing “serious concern” over recent incidents in the SouthChina Sea, President Duterte urged yesterday fellow members of theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), particularly parties to theSouth China Sea dispute, to r
OVERSEAS DRUGS THREATEN EFFORTS OF CRACKDOWN The penetration of drugs into China from abroad has become an external threat to China's crackdown on drug crimes in recent years, a report released by the National Narcotics Control Commission warned on Wednesday.
US SHIFTING MILITARY TO INDIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA TO COUNTER CHINESE ARMY: POMPEO The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today said that the US is reducing its troop presence in Europe and shifting it to other places to counter Chinese threat to India and Southeast Asia.
DUTERTE JOINS ASEAN SUMMIT AS CONFERENCE GOES ONLINE MANILA-- President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday joined other world leaders in the 36th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit as the conference went online in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Philippine leader
VACCINE ENTERS PHASE 3 TRIAL China reached an important new level of vaccine development with the start of the phase three clinical trial of an inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.
CHINA CAUTIONS US OVER ACTIONS AGAINST FOUR MORE MEDIA OUTLETS China has warned that it will take countermeasures after the US added four more Chinese media outlets to a list of organisations that should be considered foreign missions in the United States because of their ties to the gov
ROBREDO: GOVERNMENT FAILED TO 'ACT URGENTLY' AT THE ONSET OF COVID-19 CRISIS MANILA — The Philippines failed to "act urgently" at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was still "catching up" with the response of other countries despite imposing one of the longest lockdowns in the
XI: STEP UP BATTLE AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to continue the tough fight against drugs and make new progress in drug control.
US ENVOY SAYS CHINA HAS 'OBLIGATION' TO JOIN RUSSIA-US NUCLEAR ARMS TALKS While the US is pushing for China to join its arms talks with Russia for a 'three-way' negotiation, the American negotiator Marshall Billingslea has said Beijing has an "obligation" to join the talks.
