Tag Archives: Pacific

HONG KONG | Xinhua |  In 2025, the Asia-Pacific region faced a series of security challenges, ranging from recurring border conflicts, aggressive political rhetoric to domestic unrest in several countries. Despite these challenges, regional countries continue to express a shared commitment to peace and development, highlighting that dialogue and cooperation …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The world is going to need a bigger trash can. A pooling of plastic waste floating in the ocean between California and Hawaii contains at least 79,000 tons of material spread over 1.6 million square kilometers, researchers report March 22 in `Scientific Reports’. That’s the …