MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored Washington’s “ironclad commitment” Tuesday to help defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack against its forces after clashes between Chinese and Filipino coast guards in the disputed South China Sea recently turned more hostile. Blinken, the latest high-level official to visit the United … Read more
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida suffered another blow in Japan’s widest-ranging political scandal in decades with the arrest of a ruling party lawmaker on Sunday. Kishida told reporters Sunday that he was aware of the detention of Yoshitaka Ikeda, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party’s biggest faction, and called it “very regrettable, and we take … Read more
HONG KONG – Stocks are drifting Friday as Wall Street weighs how to read a report showing the U.S. job market isn’t slowing as much as expected. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in early trading and potentially on track for its first losing week in the last six. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was … Read more
In what turned out to be another interesting day in the artificial intelligence universe, this emerging technology touched diverse areas from policy making to medtech. The UK’s AI Summit might be in trouble. After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden too may skip UK PM Rishi Sunak’s … Read more
Chinese Premier Li Qiang highlighted his country’s strong ties with Southeast Asia during a meeting on Wednesday with the leaders of a region that’s challenged by an increasingly complicated geopolitical landscape. Indonesian President Joko Widodo opened the Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s summit on Tuesday saying the region must not become a proxy for any … Read more