Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives in Cambodia to wrap up 3-nation Southeast Asia tour

Tokyo, 17 April, /AJMEDIA/ Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on Thursday for a two-day state visit that serves as an opportunity to further strengthen already robust relations. The… Read more

Xi’s Vietnam trip aiming to ‘screw’ U.S., says Trump

Tokyo, 15 April, /AJMEDIA/ China’s President Xi Jinping paid tribute to Vietnam’s late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Tuesday, his last day of a trip to Hanoi that President… Read more

China’s Xi says there are ‘no winners’ in a tariff war as he visits Southeast Asia

Tokyo, 14 April, /AJMEDIA/ China’s leader Xi Jinping started a week of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam on Monday, signaling China’ s commitment to global trade,… Read more

Criminal trial of ousted South Korean leader Yoon starts

Tokyo, 14 April, /AJMEDIA/ The criminal trial of South Korea’s ousted leader Yoon Suk Yeol began on Monday over charges that he led an insurrection when he declared martial law… Read more

Central Myanmar shaken by new quake in one of the biggest aftershocks since March 28 temblor

Tokyo, 13 April, /AJMEDIA/ A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on Sunday morning near Meiktila, a small city in central Myanmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake came as… Read more

Trump spares smartphones, computers, other electronics from China tariffs

Tokyo, 13 April, /AJMEDIA/ President Donald Trump’s administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to… Read more

Trump — oldest elected U.S. president — undergoes physical

Tokyo, 12 April, /AJMEDIA/ Donald Trump had his first annual medical checkup Friday since returning to power, putting focus on the fitness of the 78-year-old who is the oldest U.S.… Read more

U.S. envoy Witkoff meets Putin as Trump tells Moscow to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine

Tokyo, 12 April, /AJMEDIA/ U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St. Petersburg about the search for a peace deal… Read more

In a first, Taiwan charges Chinese ship captain with damaging undersea cables

Tokyo, 11 April, /AJMEDIA/ Taiwan prosecutors on Friday for the first time charged a Chinese ship captain with intentionally damaging undersea cables off the island in February, after a rise… Read more

Australia wants AUKUS submarines for deterrence, stealth, says PM Albanese

Tokyo, 11 April, /AJMEDIA/ Australia is buying nuclear-powered submarines as a deterrent, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, adding that the AUKUS treaty that has come under scrutiny amid… Read more