Manila faces increasingly hostile encounters inside its own exclusive economic zone, from water-cannon attacks to dangerous Chinese manoeuvres in and around the South China Sea, which is also referred to the West Philippine Sea by Manila.
Both the semifinals in the FIDE World Cup 2025 will head to a tiebreak after GM Nodirbek Yakubboev and GM Javokhir Sindarov played out yet another drab draw while GM Andrey Esipenko failed to breach the defence of Chinese GM Wei Yei here on Saturday.
The Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in late October issued a warrant against Shen, accusing him of "secessionist crimes" for his work with Kuma Academy, a civil defence initiative that educates Taiwanese citizens on how to respond in case of a Chinese invasion.
The Delhi Crime Branch on Saturday busted an international arms trafficking network linked to Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, and arrested four accused. The team recovered a total of eight pistols, including five Turkish-made and three Chinese-made weapons.
The police investigation revealed a complex web of arms trafficking, exploiting drone technology to evade detection. The suspects reportedly had no direct contact, ensuring a secure and secretive operation.
"18 sorties of PLA aircraft, 7 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 12 out of 18 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern and southwestern ADIZ. We have monitored the situation and responded," the ministry
Foreign Affairs Expert Robinder Sachdev expressed optimism as India reopens tourist visa for Chinese citizens and called it a step towards the normalisation of ties between the two countries.
Defence Expert Sanjeev Srivastava on Friday, hailed the recent news of the resumption of issuance of tourist visas to Chinese citizens worldwide, calling it a constructive development in the bilateral ties.
The fresh move followed some sequence of steps taken earlier this year, comprising the January 2025 agreement between India and China when the two countries agreed to resume direct passenger flights.
Taiwanese lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) representing Kaohsiung on Friday called on the public to stand with Japan by purchasing Japanese products and travelling there, amid China's escalating response to remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi concerning Tai
GTRI also suggested some guardrails that are required to prevent the import flood. It said, to mitigate these risks, India must immediately put in place a targeted import-management strategy.
In a post shared on 'X', the ministry said that 17 aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered the island's northern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zones (ADIZs).