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Tensions came to the fore at the ongoing East Asia and Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Malaysia, with countries including USA, India, Japan and Australia expressing deep concern over China’s territorial claim and creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea...

“The overall situation in the South China Sea is stable and there is no possibility of major conflict”, said a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry early yesterday morning.

The clocks are to be turned back 30 minutes, which will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind both South Korea and Japan, which are at GMT+9:00.

Since then, Japan, North Korea and South Korea have run on the same local time – nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Back in 2007, Venezuela also decided to turn its clocks to use the daytime more effectively.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received a report from his advisory panel on how to proceed in his address next week to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, which appears to play down apologies by the country’s previous prime ministers for Japan’s wartime...

Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, front left, walks with Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, front right, after they pose for a family photograph during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers Meeting plenary session in...

But China repeated its stance yesterday that Asean was not the right forum for such talks, pointing instead to a joint working group as well as meetings of senior officials from both sides that Foreign Minister Wang Yi said had achieved important progress.

In February Prime Minster Abe said had the expanded security measures been in place, he could have sent in the military to rescue two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State that were eventually executed.

The Korean War anniversary celebration brought a celebratory tone to the capital of North Korea, with the general public using the holiday to show their patriotic pride by laying flowers before statues of North Korea’s first president Kim Il-sung and his son, Kim Jong-il.

“The white paper has launched unfounded accusations against China’s constructions on its own islands – obviously an attempt to depict China as a bully in regional conflicts, supporting the Japanese government’s knavish claim over the disputed waters in the...

For now, Chairman Masashi Muromachi will replace Mr. Tanaka as interim CEO while the company recruits a new management team to be announced in mid-August, reported Bloomberg. I don’t think these problems can be overcome overnight.

Current Chairman Masashi Muromachi will be Tanaka’s successor and a further eight board members including the vice-chairman Norio Sasaki have stepped down from their positions in order to allow the company to reform their management structure. On Monday, a report said that...

Early estimates suggest this year’s final was the most-watched soccer match in USA television history, for either men or women, with Twenty-First Century Fox’ (FOXA)Fox network hitting a peak of 22.86 million viewers during the broadcast.

England’s football world reacted emotionally and rallied around defender Laura Bassett on Thursday after her own-goal sealed the team’s fate in a 2-1 Women’s World Cup semi-final defeat against Japan.