Asia (Beyond China)

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (192+ words) THE Philippines, United States and Canada stepped up maritime coordination with a two-day multilateral exercise in the Sulu Sea involving warships, maritime patrol and military aircraft, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Tuesday. The AFP deployed the Philippine…...

3+ hour, 28+ min ago   (688+ words) The communist government of North Korea announced on Monday that it had conducted a “firepower attack drill” featuring missiles, drones, rocket launchers, and artillery. The post North Korea Tests ‘New Combat Systems,’ Including Advanced Drones, in Strike Drill appeared first…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (106+ words) Video - 134th SFS Train in Guam DVIDS 134th SFS Train in Guam Add the following CSS to the header block of your HTML document. Video by Airman 1st Class Scott Batista Jr/rss/personnel/1909268 134th Air Refueling Wing /search/unit/134ARW /rss/unit/1372 U.S. Air National…...

10+ hour, 4+ min ago   (683+ words) A group of 52 prominent Bangladeshi civil society activists, academics, lawyers and rights defenders have criticized the government over alleged moves to increase militarization in the conflict-scarred Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region. "Civil society expresses deep concern over the government's formation…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago   (743+ words) Saudi Arabia is running out of options to export its vast oil reserves as attacks force its main pipeline shut while Iran and its allies cement their chokehold on the kingdom's two main maritime routes, analysts say. The world's top…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (122+ words) Cambodia, which initiated the case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in Singapore, said it hoped the hearings would yield a peaceful resolution for both countries. In May this year, Thailand unilaterally pulled out of a bilateral framework agreement…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (943+ words) A study by a US foreign policy think tank advocates a major military pullback from the western Pacific, prompting concern among long-standing allies of the United States across the Indo-Pacific, analysts say. The report was authored by Jennifer Kavanagh, a…...

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3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (91+ words) An expanding weapons trail from Myanmar’s conflict zones to the India-Bangladesh border region is raising fresh security concerns in Northeast India.The arsenal reportedly includes Myanmar Army weapons, pistols, rifles, UZIs, G3 battle rifles, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, mortars and improvised…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (424+ words) Are Chinese merchant ship full of combat weapons? (for illustration purposes only) CHINA: China may be testing a quietly radical idea at sea — one that turns the world’s most familiar symbols of global trade into something far more unsettling. According…...