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Taiwan President Ma urges China to protect human rights

Kyodo News InternationalJune 5, 2013 15:17
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou urged Beijing on Tuesday to protect the human rights of its people to mark the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Ma called on the Chinese government to allow an international review of its human rights paper should there be one in the future. The Chinese government released a white paper last month on the claimed progress of human rights in 2012, the 10th since it began releasing such reports in 1991.

UN decolonization vote on Polynesia angers France

Agence France-PresseMay 17, 2013 11:46
The UN General Assembly on Friday put French Polynesia on the global body's decolonization list at a meeting boycotted by France. The resolution, passed by consensus in the 193 member assembly, was called for by the Solomon Islands and other Pacific states who back the Pacific territory's pro-independence parties. The vote places French Polynesia on the UN decolonization list along with 16 other territories around the world, including the British-ruled Falkland islands and the US Virgin Islands.

Taiwan holds drill in S. China Sea, escalating row with Philippines

Kyodo News InternationalMay 16, 2013 04:45
Taiwanese navy war ships and coast guard vessels held a joint exercise Thursday in disputed waters where a Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead last Friday by the Philippine Coast Guard, but President Ma Ying-jeou said Taipei intends to deal with Manila peacefully.

March 20, 2013 17:46
Mali sovereignty over 'most' of its territory to be restored within days: Hollande ha/gk/mfp

Taiwan develops medium-range missile: report

March 16, 2013 07:00
Taiwan has developed its first medium-range guided missile that could be used against former rival China, according to a former defence minister in a new book cited by a media report Saturday. Michael Tsai, a politician turned defence minister in the former government of the China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), revealed in his book due to be published on Sunday that the military successfully developed the missile back in 2008, the Liberty Times said.

China frigate locked radar on Japan navy: minister

February 5, 2013 08:00
A Chinese military frigate locked weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese navy vessel, Tokyo's defence minister said Tuesday, in an apparent upping of the stakes in a bitter territorial row. The move, described by the minister and a Japanese analyst as "dangerous", marks the first time the two nation's navies have locked horns in a dispute that has some commentators warning about a possible armed conflict. "On January 30, something like fire-control radar was directed at a Japan Self-Defense Maritime escort ship in the East China Sea," Itsunori Onodera told reporters in Tokyo.
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