Bloomberg France renewed its criticism of China over the treatment of the Uighurs in Xinjiang on Wednesday, calling for human rights observers to be allowed into the region and demanding that internment camps be closed. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said witness accounts indicated human rights abuses that cannot be ignored, such as detention camps, people disappearing, forced labour, the ...

Bloomberg Cracks may be emerging in the so-called ironclad military alliance between South Korea and the US, stoking worries in Seoul that the Trump administration is looking at withdrawing troops from the peninsula. Defense Secretary Mark Esper isn’t ruling out reductions to US Forces in Korea, telling a forum that, while no order has been given, the administration was looking ...

Bloomberg Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike told residents to avoid unnecessary trips outdoors as much as possible during a forthcoming four-day weekend as the city’s running total topped 10,000 and new cases nationwide were reported to hit a new daily record. Japan’s capital had another 238 cases on Wednesday, as the country heads into a long weekend that was originally scheduled ...