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Marcos’ Surprising Embrace of US Puts China on Back Foot
Bloomberg via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months ago(Bloomberg) -- As soon as it became clear that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had won the Philippine...
Ex-Philippines president Duterte's senate election bid poses threat to former ally Marcos
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoThe Philippines' dominant Marcos and Duterte political dynasties, uneasy allies for two years, are...
Why did Puerto Rico become part of the US? And why is it not a state? Experts explain
Miami Herald via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoThe year is 1898. The United States had 45 states. William McKinley was president. Candy corn, ice...
On This Day, Nov. 8: FDR elected president of United States
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoNew York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt rides in the back of an open-top car with his daughter Anna...
Are China’s actions in the South China Sea a harbinger of things to come for Taiwan?
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoOne hundred and twenty miles off the coast of Palawan in the Philippines sits the Sierra Madre, a...
Fidel Ramos, Who Helped End Marcos Dictatorship, Dies at 94
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- Fidel Ramos, the former Philippine president who was head of the national police...
Indonesia's presidential election has high stakes for US and China and their rivalry
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoWhen Indonesians cast their votes on Wednesday for a new president in one of the world’s biggest...
The Age of the Strongman Is Back—but Is It Here to Stay?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip...
South China Sea disputes: can Beijing keep it bilateral despite high-seas clashes?
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance Canada· 2 weeks agoFlare-ups between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the South China Sea have drawn greater regional and even global attention, posing a challenge to Beijing's preference for a bilateral approach ...
Ales Bialiatski from Belarus and human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine win Nobel Peace Prize
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoAles Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human...