TOKYO _ Japan may deploy land- and sea-based interceptor missiles ahead of North Korea's planned rocket launch next month and has not ruled out shooting down the rocket if it violates Japanese airspace, according to defence officials and media reports.
Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka said Wedne ....
BEIJING _ China's authoritarian government is restricting the police's power to secretly detain people, at least on paper, announcing stricter revisions to a key criminal law Thursday after a wave of public complaints.
Scholars welcomed the changes, saying they will offer better protectio ....
BEIJING _ An overseas Tibetan news service says Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county hit by anti-government protests as China's crackdown against persisting unrest spreads.
The Voice of Tibet, which is based in Norway, says that more than 20 police officers took G ....
BEIJING _ A city in southwest China at the centre of a brewing political scandal has appointed a new police chief and renewed a controversial campaign against organized crime.
Newspapers on Saturday said Guan Haixiang had been appointed to replace former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun. Wang is ....
BEIJING _ China's fast-modernizing navy is stepping up training for anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia in a sign of its growing long-term commitment to overseas missions.
The first two-week course for 84 leading officers began this week at the Naval Command College in the eastern Ch ....
