Two Australian warships are on their way to East Timorese waters. It’s called “showing the flag” or “gunboat diplomacy”. East Timor has not asked Australia for any help, so why the rush?

Richard Lawless, U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for Asia and Pacific Affairs, said that the cost of realigning U.S. forces in Japan, including the construction of a U.S. base in Guam, is estimated at more than 30 billion dollars, and that the United States is calling for Japan to pay 26 billion dollars.

The whole world is today celebrating International Workers' Day – a day of homage to the workers' role as creators of all of humanity's basic necessities and wealth, of culture and civilization.

We congratulate the people of the Solomon Islands and those opposition parliamentarians who brought about the defeat of a corrupt government which was supported by foreign money and foreign military and police forces.

The Liberal Democratic and Komei party government's plan to construct a new U.S. base is terrible. It will have two 1,800-meter runways. The plan will extend the base site into the deeper Oura Bay.

Re-elected Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has expressed his firm belief that the Party will be able to counter rampant corruption, while eyeing accelerated and sustained development for the nation.

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war violated a number of international conventions and related agreements. With full knowledge of its implications, its inhumane consequences and its insidious effects, the US government used the deadly poison dioxin.

During the course of the recent rioting it became obvious that the Australian forces found themselves on the receiving end of angry stone-throwers, and this sentiment is certain to increase as the same failed policies are re-imposed.

Denso is Japan's largest supplier of car parts mainly for Toyota Motor Corp. which keeps making more than 1 trillion yen in annual profits. Denso has its head office in Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture. Many of its contingent workers are not covered by the health insurance program.

On the occasion of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the Party Central Committee has received messages of congratulation from many Communist parties, workers parties and political organisations from around the world.

In the last five years under the Koizumi cabinet, poverty has increased and the social gap has widened; U.S. military bases in Japan have been strengthened; and Japan's Asia diplomacy is at a serious impasse.

Showing its true colours, the Howard Government has offered to help Indonesia prevent refugees fleeing West Papua. Recently 42 West Papuan separatists reached the Northern Territory by boat.

This seems to be a bad week for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who celebrated her 59th birthday April 5 as criticisms against her and her administration are mounting.

U.S. Camp Hansen and Camp Schwab occupy 51 percent of the land area of Ginoza Village... We don't want the sky over the village to be occupied by the U.S. military.

Okinawans are burdened with the presence of U.S. Marines that are stationed as operational forces. These forces have been sent to Iraq for combat. They are the source of the high rate of accidents, crimes, and other dangers.

A "State of National Emergency" was declared by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last February 24, under Presidential Proclamation 1017 (PP-1017), allegedly to suppress a coup attempt against her.

There is nothing “enlightened” about selling one’s country to a band of known international robbers and scamsters.

Shouldering costs for constructing a base within U.S. territory runs counter to Japan's Constitution and even contradicts the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

The Arroyo regime is trying to present this "state of national emergency" as distinct from martial law, in order to avoid the constitutional requirement for Congress to ratify such declaration.

Filipinos in the United States greeted Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's declaration of state of emergency with concern.