Asia Pacific

China’s political elite gather for talks on Communist Party discipline

The four-day meeting is being watched closely for clues as to the country’s direction and future leadership.

South Korea blames Pyongyang for September landmine blast, but North Korea says incident a ‘sinister obstructive move’.

North Korean leader meets top Chinese official and tours key sites in border city of Dandong during the one-day trip.

Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon dismantled 80 ‘propaganda cells’ operating under new names at 30 universities.

Storm topples trees, triggers brief flooding, disrupts power lines and forces 5,000 people to evacuate.

The proposal comes days after Pyongyang says it moved new military units into ‘firing positions’ along the border.

World authority on threatened wildlife classifies 96 percent of assessed coral reef systems as “critically endangered”.

Authorities warn they expect death toll from magnitude 7 quake that hit remote part of Tibet to rise.

Until now, the virus was considered non-transferable to humans, making the patient the first documented human case.

ASEAN’s consensus-driven approach and a lack of enforcement mechanisms make legal action difficult, experts say.