James Patterson

A video containing a two-second clip of what looks like a new type of supersonic cruise missile was released by China’s military just days before the Oct. 1 National Day celebration of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The clip may have been unintentional as it was quickly withdrawn and replaced by another video with the mysterious two-seconds omitted.

President Donald J. Trump, who is known for his tweets was the subject of one himself on Wednesday when Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said in a tweet that Trump had told him that he “loves” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whom he called “Frank Sinatra.”

The woman, former barangay chairwoman Guia Gomez Castro is charged with being involved with “ninja cops” in a scheme to use confiscated drugs for re-sell or to plant the drugs on unsuspecting and possibly innocent people.

North Korean fishermen who were fishing illegally inside the Russian exclusive economic zone attacked Russian Coast Guardsmen who had detained another North Korean fishing schooner. Several of the Russian crew were injured by gunfire as were several North Koreans, one of them fatally.

China has put a deep-water oil rig into operation on Saturday somewhere in the South China Sea. The rig is called the ‘Haiyang Shiyou 982’, or ‘Ocean Oil 982’ and according to Chang An Jian, a social media account run by the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the rig is in waters that are about 3,000 meters (9,850 feet) deep.

Oct. 1 promises to be a big day for the Chinese Communist Party featuring a National Day military parade where a supersonic spy drone among other new weaponry will be showcased. The drone was seen for the first time during a rehearsal for the parade this past weekend when some pictures began to circulate on social media.

A delivery man in Hong Kong was charged with desecrating the Chinese flag making him the third protestor arrested for offenses toward the flag since June when unrest over a now withdrawn extradition bill began. Law Man-chung, 21, was brought to Sha Tin Court to face the charges along with three others from a “singing protest” held at a local shopping mall.

Columbia University is getting a lot of criticism for inviting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to speak on campus Wednesday. The University is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York and the fifth oldest nationally.

On June 9, a Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat and then abandoned the crew in the open waters. This became known as the Recto (or Reed) Bank incident that was brushed off as an “accident” by the Chinese and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.

Wealthy Chinese millionaires, in what is likely a strategy to protect their assets in a “safe haven”, are buying up luxury apartments in Singapore worth millions of Singapore dollars. Sales have hit an 11-year high, according to the Singapore Straits Times and property consultants OrangeTee & Tie.

The simulation shows that the Qinzhou’s 76-mm gun inflicts damage on the Fort Worth and puts its rolling airframe missile launcher out of commission.

Japan's Fukushima power plant contains more than 1 million tons of contaminated water and the country's environment minister recently stated the "the only option" is to dump that into the Pacific Ocean.

FedEx, an American multinational courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee has announced that one of their pilots, a former US Air Force Pilot named Todd Hohn, was arrested and later released on bail in China. The arrest happened about a week ago in the company’s Asia hub in Guangzhou after the pilot had made a round of deliveries and was waiting for a commercial flight.

Officials are searching for ways to improve on some gloomy August economic numbers that showed retail sales at about 7.5 percent growth instead of the expected 7.9 percent.

The Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group is back on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Manila but now motorists may have a different experience when being stopped for a traffic violation. As an alternative to intimidating armed male officers, HPG is fielding 23 female police officers from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

China is set to use a huge new supply transport ship to ferry supplies to natural and artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea. Named the Sansha No. 2, it can “cover the whole South China Sea”, according to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency. The ship passed tests in August.

The two leaders have threatened to wipe each other “completely off the map” but now seem willing to talk about North Korea's nuclear ambitions using traditional diplomatic methods.

As the unrest continues in Hong Kong driving tourists and their money away, the inevitable begins to happen as retailers are forced to close their shops and let the mass layoff of workers begin.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the presidential palace in Manila on Monday.

The 285-year-old 'mother of all Philippine maps' belonging to the Duke of Northumberland was auctioned for 40 million Philippine pesos.

Amid protests and the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong, passenger traffic at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) is down 12.4% from 2018 according to the Airport Authority (AA).

Four of the 13 cattle seen in the footage were identified as Australian. prompting an investigation by the Australian Department of Agriculture.

4 men and 2 women sustained injuries after being struck by drain cleaner, allegedly tossed from a Hong Kong residential building.

To show defiance against China, Hong Kong demonstrators are singing a new unofficial national anthem titled 'Glory to Hong Kong'.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him that China would be the junior partner with revenues being split 60% to 40% in favor of the Philippines.

Malaysia to commence cloud-seeding to combat haze. Cloud-seeding is a weather-modification process normally used to induce rain from clouds by spraying chemicals into them that will promote the formation of ice crystals.

Major General Su Guanghui, China’s military attaché in the UK, warned that any British warship could face a military response if it sailed through the South China Sea.

The Rising Sun flag was used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and is still commonly seen in Japan with variations of the design used in commercial products and advertising.

Thousands of people marched peacefully to the United States Consulate on Sunday to draw the attention of U.S. officials and politicians, including President Donald J. Trump, to their cause.