Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said his nation would offer zero tariffs and no retaliation as start of negotiations with US while removing trade barriers.
The death toll in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Burma jumped to 1,002 with 2,376 injured and 30 others missing, military government said in statement.
Beijing is meddling in a pending sale of port rights from a Hongkonger-owned company to a U.S. business consortium led by BlackRock, according to a China expert.
US announced visa restrictions on Thailand officials in response to deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, where ethnic group faced continued suppression.