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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Ten Southeast Asian heads of state and nine world leaders, including President Barack Obama, are meeting in Malaysia to discuss trade and economic issues. Terrorism and...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's leader on Saturday denounced the Islamic State as an "evil" terrorist group, saying his Muslim-majority country is ready to join others to defeat it. But he...
View ArticlePresident Xi Jinping condemns jihadist hotel attack in Mali, vows fight...
China’s President Xi Jinping on Saturday ”strongly condemned” the attack by armed jihadists on a hotel in Mali which left three Chinese nationals dead, according to a government statement, among at...
View ArticleDemocracy in one Asian country may be taking its last, dying breath
Cambodia's Prime Minister and president of CPP Hun Sen speaks during a campaign rally in Phnom Penh Two weeks ahead of local elections in Cambodia, the country’s long-serving prime minister issued a...
View Article3 Chinese business executives killed in Mali attack
Three senior executives of a powerful state-owned Chinese company were killed in the Friday attack on a Radisson hotel in the Mali capital of...
View Article3 Chinese business executives killed in Mail attack
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese state-owned company says three of its senior executives have been killed in the Friday attack on a...
View ArticleWang Yi Talks about President Xi Jinping's Visits to Cambodia and Bangladesh...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China) Carrying forward Traditional Friendship, Deepening Mutually Beneficial Cooperation and Opening up Win-Win Prospects --Foreign...
View ArticleCambodia keeps up the pressure on opposition in courts
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia's government and its opposition faced off in court and on the streets Friday as political tensions around challenges to Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-standing...
View ArticleTrump Attacks the Press, Cambodia Winds Up Collateral Damage
It’s doubtful the U.S. president gives much thought to Cambodia, but his hostility to the U.S. press and any form of opposition has a powerful impact in Phnom Penh nonetheless. Donald Trump has a lot...
View ArticleThree top Chinese officials killed in Mali attack
Three top Chinese officials of a state-owned company were among 27 people killed in the attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali, triggering strong condemnation from President Xi Jinping on Saturday....
View ArticleOpposition leader Sam Rainsy delays returning to Cambodia
Phnom Penh: Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy has delayed returning to his country to face a two-year jail sentence on a politically motivated defamation charge, saying he has been advised not to...
View ArticleHaunted by close call, Cambodia's long-ruling PM gears up for distant election
By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia won't hold a general election for another two years. But look at Prime Minister Hun Sen, its long-ruling and mercurial strongman, and you'd think one...
View ArticleChina condemns hostage siege in Mali following three Chinese killed
Highlights: 1. Three Chinese citizens killed, four others rescued 2. Three Chinese killed were executives from China Railway Construction Corporation Limited 3. Islamist group claims shared...
View ArticleOpposition leader Sam Rainsy defies jail threat to 'rescue' Cambodia
Bangkok: Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy has declared that for the sake of his nation he will return to Phnom Penh despite facing a two year jail sentence on a politically motivated defamation...
View ArticleChina condemns hostage siege in Mali, confirms three Chinese killed
Three Chinese nationals were killed among the 27 victims in a hostage situation at Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced Friday four other Chinese...
View ArticleTerror in Mali: An Attack on China and Russia?
Coming on the heels of the terrorist attack in Paris, the at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, the capital of the African nation of Mali, is still further evidence of the escalation of terrorism...
View ArticleCambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy faces arrest
Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy faces arrest if he returns to his country as early as Monday, plunging the impoverished south-east Asia country back into political conflict. The regime of...
View ArticleCourt orders Cambodian opposition chief to hear new charges
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) A Cambodian court has summoned opposition leader Sam Rainsy to hear new charges against him, after an arrest warrant was issued last week in a separate case, piling more...
View ArticleGunmen attack hotel in Mali's capital, killing at least 20
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Heavily armed Islamic extremists seized dozens of hostages Friday at a Radisson hotel, but Malian troops, backed by U.S. and French special forces, swarmed in to retake the building...
View ArticleThe Latest: 3 Chinese executives killed in Mail attack
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The latest on the attack on a hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako. (All times local): --- 3:55 a.m. A Chinese state-owned company says three of its senior executives have been...
View ArticleThe Latest: Security Council strongly condemns Mali attack
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The latest on the attack on a hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako. (All times local): --- 4:55 a.m. The U.N. Security Council is condemning "the horrifying terrorist attack" at...
View ArticleA partial list of victims in the Mali hotel attack
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Here is a partial list of the victims of Friday's attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali which killed 19 people confirmed by The Associated Press: --- -Anita Ashok Datar, 41,...
View ArticleMali manhunt on after hotel siege leaves 19 dead
Investigators in Mali yesterday hunting at least three people suspected of links to a jihadist siege at a luxury hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead. The government has declared a...
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