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
CHINA’S ATTEMPT TO ALTER STATUS QUO CAN HAVE ‘REPERCUSSIONS’: INDIAN ENVOY India on Friday warned China that trying to alter the status quo on the ground by resorting to force will not just damage the peace that existed on the border areas but can also have “ripples and re
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
INDIA-CHINA BORDER TENSIONS: 'CONTINUATION OF CURRENT SITUATION WILL VITIATE TIES' A day after Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed to "sincerely implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation" along the Line of Actual Control, New Delhi drew the red line Thursday, saying
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
