Bloomberg The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan discussed a potential extension of their bilateral military intelligence-sharing pact at a meeting in Bangkok, but only at an “in principle” level, Yonhap reported. “We talked about it only at a theoretical level,” South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo was quoted by Yonhap as saying. He was speaking to reporters in ...

Bloomberg A family of strongmen who tilted Sri Lanka towards a deep reliance on China clinched victory in a tightly-fought presidential election, as voting showed the country remains divided down ethnic lines. Gotabaya Rajapaksa won 52.3% of the votes, while ruling alliance candidate Sajith Premadasa had 42% at the final count, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. There ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired teargas and deployed a water cannon to try to clear a resistant band of protesters who occupied a university near the Tsim Sha Tsui district and blocked roads in the vicinity. Police launched round after round of teargas and repeatedly sprayed a blue-dyed liquid towards the demonstrators holed up at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Streets ...