MANILA – China’s “nine-dash line” claim by China in the South China Sea is nothing but there imagination, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Sunday, as he condemns illegally occupying Filipino maritime territory. Lorenzana said that China’s historical rights inside their nine-dash line don’t exist except in their imagination. The statement came after Manila and Beijing clash over the disputed …

PT Bio Farma (Persero) will receive 50 million doses of the Covid-19 Ready to Fill (RTF) vaccine bulk or concentrate from the Chinese biopharmaceutical company, Sinovac from November 2020 to March 2021. This assurance was marked by the signing of the Preliminary Agreement of Purchase and Supply of Bulk Production of Covid-19 Vaccine, which was held in Hainan, China on …

PETALING JAYA – The Ministry of Health said that more data is needed before the government can decide on whether to acquire vaccines being developed by Russia and China. According Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the vaccine’s efficacy and side effects on human trials would most likely be determine on the third clinical phase. He …

After a satisfying lunch, Mr. Qian Bingkun and his wife watched a waitress load their leftover stir-fried tofu and dessert into bags, while their daughter paid for the meal. Busily wrapping the uncooked food in a microwave box of typical Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, the waitress answered that it’s to allow customers to take leftovers after they’ve eaten. Some of the …

PETALING JAYA – Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said that since Perikatan Nasional (PN) government took control, relationships with China and India has improved significantly. Hishammuddin said that the improved ties would help the country’s export on its palm oil and palm oil-based products that could support the Felda settlers in the process. Speaking after a meet-and-greet session with …

New Zealand authorities are investigating the possibility that freight may have transported the first Covid-19 cases in more than three months, as the nation plummeted back into lockdown. The detection in Auckland of four infected family members prompted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to rapidly reimpose tight controls on movement in New Zealand’s largest city and travel restrictions around the country. …

METRO MANILA – According to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the country needs to balance its ties with the two superpowers when the issue of South China Sea territory is concerned. Lorenzana believes that Philippines should not get involved when the two major country are hurling accusations with each other. He also lauded the President’s decision to stop holding drills with …

Washington’s attempt to ban some Chinese-origin inventions is a sign of “madness” in US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed Global Times tabloid published in an editorial. Pompeo spoke anti-China remarks almost regularly, constantly playing tricks to escalate tensions between China and the US, and demonstrating the resilience of the Trump administration against China.The US State Department issued an …

It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to throw out Taiwan’s long-established diplomatic rulebook: he accepted a telephone call from President Tsai Ing-wen a month before taking office in January 2017. The 10-minute chat was the first time that a president-elect had talked to a Taiwanese head of state since the United States broke ties with Taipei in favor of …

The US Consulate in Hong Kong stated that it was ludicrous to imply that its diplomats meeting with pro-democracy politicians would infringe the city’s latest national security law, a accusation posed in a recent state media article in China. Chinese state-owned tabloid Global Times ran a story earlier this week suggesting a recent meeting between US Consul General Hanscom Smith …