"These days, Europe is losing its significance in global politics and the economy," a law student shouted from the audience during a recent political TV talk show broadcast on Shanghai Media Group (SMG), a Chinese state media outlet. "Are the European elite and the public aware of this?"
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that the self-governed island had the "right to engage with the world," as he landed back in Taipei after a trip to its sole African ally, Eswatini.
A North Korean women's soccer club will visit South Korea for a face-off between the rival neighbors, making it the first sports team since 2018 to play on the South's soil, the Unification Ministry in Seoul said on Monday.
The Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupted, prompting the evacuation of dozens of surrounding villages, authorities said Sunday. In an alert published on its website, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) warned of a "high level of magmatic activity," with lava flows stretching several kilometers.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te arrived in the African nation of Eswatini on Saturday, announcing the trip on social media. In a post on X, he said that he had arrived in Taiwan's only diplomatic ally in Africa to "affirm our longstanding friendship." "Taiwan will never be deterred by external pressures," Lai added.
FILE - Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech as he inspects Taiwanese reservists participating in reserve military training in Ilan County, Eastern Taiwan, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.
Since toppling a democratically elected government over five years ago, Myanmar's military has lost control over swaths of land to armed resistance groups across the country. It has severely damaged the economy and left the regime internationally isolated, facing numerous allegations of war crimes.
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Arriving in Hong Kong as a penniless 12-year-old stowaway from southern China, Jimmy Lai sought only freedom and a future. At the time, Lai could never have imagined how his life would become forever intertwined with this former British colony.
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Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, who's serving a one-year prison term for corruption, is set to be released on parole in May, according to a Department of Corrections statement on Wednesday.
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