A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began to hear pleas for lenient sentences from some prominent pro-democracy activists who were found guilty in the city’s biggest national security case and now face up to life in prison. The activists were among 47 democracy advocates who were charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law for their involvement in an unofficial primary.
South Korea says North Korea is again flying balloons toward the South that are likely to be carrying trash. It’s North Korea’s sixth launch of balloons since late May. The South Korean government asked the public not to touch any North Korean balloons that fall to the ground and to report them to police or military authorities.
Japanese police arrested a U.S. soldier assigned to Kadena Air Base over the weekend on suspicion of drunken driving, colliding with another vehicle and fleeing the scene.
Some of the best wrestlers in South Korea recently put on a combat wrestling seminar at Camp Casey.
An American aircraft carrier steamed into South Korea’s largest port over the weekend for the first time this year “as a demonstration of will” to deter North Korea’s provocations, the South’s navy said.
A “small detachment” of U.S. Marines is scheduled to relocate to Guam at the end of the year as the island prepares for thousands more transferring from Okinawa, according to the Marine Corps.
A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a convenience store on Okinawa, a crime he testified he committed to retrieve money he lost in an online scam.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security.
Activists who drew official North Korean ire for sending balloons carrying humanitarian supplies across its border say they will continue their decades-long campaign, despite the North’s in-kind retaliation against the South.
A Malaysian minister says police have detained eight people with suspected links to the Islamic State militant group and thwarted possible threats against Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the nation’s king and other dignitaries.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks on Ukraine, peace and bilateral trade on a visit to Beijing that brings the leader of a NATO member to a country that has backed Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched more balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea. A Joint Chiefs of Staff statement says the balloons are moving south. It asks South Korean citizens not to touch North Korean balloons and report them to military and police authorities.
Four Chinese coast guard vessels since Thursday have repeatedly entered the 12-mile territorial limit around the Senkaku chain, according to the Japan coast guard.
The Marine Corps plans to establish a new littoral regiment on Guam in the next several years to “counter Chinese aggression” in the region, Japanese media reported.
American and Filipino marines recently concluded six weeks of coastal defense and aviation training in the Philippines.
Yokosuka Naval Base has new manhole covers that reflect a piece of Japanese pop culture.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 13 Chinese boaters over the weekend off the coast of Guam after their boat went adrift, according to a spokeswoman for the service.
A cybersecurity intelligence company says a suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has intensified attacks on Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as the government, education and technology.