After dozens of Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, Taipei issued a sharp rebuke, claiming on Monday it has the right to “self-defense and to counterattack.” However, the Chinese aircraft committed no illegal act and violated no formal agreement.

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Indian government has no plans to remove China’s most favored nation trade status despite the recent deadly clashes on the border between the two countries, the Indian minister of trade and commerce, Piyush Goyal, said on Monday.

Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old community affairs liasion for the New York City Police Department (NYPD), has been arrested by federal authorities after allegedly carrying out work as a Chinese government agent for six years.

Beijing will soon lose the ability to access its weather and earth-monitoring satellites via ground station locations affiliated with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in Sweden, Chile and Australia.

Paleontologists digging in China have discovered a new, burrowing dinosaur species believed to have existed 125 million years ago.

Months of border hostilities between India and China have started to be reflected on social media, with the smartphone generation in both countries waging a war of words on Twitter, while soldiers of the two Asian giants have witnessed incidents of violent clashes in the contested Ladakh region, reporting causalities on the Indian side.

In a first substantial breakthrough in India for Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute vaccine Sputnik V, the multinational pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy’s announced that it will be distributing 100 million doses of vaccine in India after conducting final-stage human trials and receiving regulatory clearances.

The footage was published following US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment Keith Krach’s visit to Taiwan last week.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defence is training its fighter pilots to engage and respond to any possible fire from Chinese warplanes as tensions escalate between the two, a ministerial source told Taiwan News.

BANGKOK (Sputnik) - Six people died and 112 sustained injuries in Vietnam as a result of the Noul tropical storm, Vietnamese newspaper VNExpress reported on Monday, citing the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Five people were injured as a result of a stabbing attack near a kindergarten in the port city of Guangzhou in China's southeastern province of Guangdong, national media the People's Daily reported on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Violent clashes and bomb blasts have been reported in Afghanistan over the last few days despite the ongoing peace talks between the government and the Taliban* in the Qatari capital of Doha.

Philippine seismologists, however, set the earthquake magnitude at 6.1, which, according to the Richet scale, is considered a strong quake felt up to hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the epicentre.

Earlier this year, another North Korean defector, named by South Korean media as Kim, 24, who fled from the DPRK back in 2017, returned to the North through a drainage ditch and by swimming across the Han River.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - China's ByteDance company, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok, told the Chinese Global Times newspaper on Sunday it was not ruling out inviting more investors into the app on the heels of the agreement with US' Oracle and Walmart.

As people are living in a time of pandemic, movies about viruses and the living dead have become more popular than ever. There are some Korean works that are worth seeing during a lockdown.

Brandishing guns either in traditional Kashmiri pheran or combat dress, sporting a beard, sometimes with half-covered faces and holding stones in hands; this is what one usually sees if one searches for "Kashmiri youth" on Google.

The investigation was launched by the Belgian security services, focusing on the former diplomat's alleged ties to Chinese reporters who are claimed by security sources to be working for the Chinese Ministry of State Security and the Chinese military.

The company has promised passengers that they will enjoy special onboard entertainment and that a surprise celebrity host will be flying with them on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight.

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un met several times in the past two years, and so did Dennis Rodman – former NBA player, who first visited North Korea in 2013 as a part "basketball democracy tour”.