Australia joins New Zealand to ratify regional trade pact RCEP
The deal is the world’s largest trade pact, representing about 30 per cent of the global population and gross domestic product
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COP26 leaders vow new drive to end deforestation by 2030
The pledge will be issued at the end of the two-day United Nations COP26 conference, which will continue for another fortnight to try to craft national plans on preventing global…
China calls on US to stop politicizing Covid’s origin
US intelligence agencies said in a declassified report on Friday that a natural origin and a lab leak are both plausible hypotheses for how SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans
Former US ambassador Bill Richardson heads to Myanmar
Bill Richardson is on a private humanitarian mission and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres was aware of the mission
Indonesia assumes G-20 presidency, puts Covid-19 recovery high on next year’s agenda
The year-long presidency, which officially begins on Dec 1 and ends on Nov 30, will culminate with the 17th leaders summit on the holiday island of Bali in October next year.
Cambodia officially takes over Asean chairmanship
The gavel symbolising the Asean chairmanship’s authority was handed over to Cambodia by Brunei on October 28 to begin the country’s year-long tenure
US to deepen relations with Taiwan in face of China tensions
In her first public news conference, Sandra Oudkirk, the new director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy, reiterated that the U.S. remains deeply committed…
India deploys US-made weapons along border with China
The buildup in India's north-east is centred on the Tawang Plateau adjoining Bhutan and Tibet, a piece of land claimed by China but controlled by India.
China has fulfilled WTO commitments, says trade representative
China's overall tariff level dropped from 15.3 per cent at the time of joining the WTO to 7.4 percent, said Wang Shouwen
Asean summit host Brunei says Myanmar is an ‘integral part’ of the bloc
Asean is facing calls to go further by suspending or even expelling Myanmar, but Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, the summit host, sought to defuse tensions.