August 24, 2026

Asia Watch

Why Mongolia’s Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Resigned– time.com

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Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrain became Mongolia’s Prime Minister in 2021, after gaining prominence by helping to organize mass protests against corruption. Now, after protesters have taken to the streets accusing him of corruption, which he has denied, he’s resigned.

Oyun-Erdene lost a vote of confidence in parliament on Monday, according to a parliamentary statement, failing to secure a majority 64 votes in the 126-seat body. Only 82 lawmakers voted in the secret ballot, which yielded only 44 in approval of Oyun-Erdene.

“It was an honour to serve my country and people in times of difficulties, including pandemics, wars, and tariffs,” Oyun-Erdene said after the vote.

Oyun-Erdene, whose center-left ruling Mongolian People’s Party retained a majority but formed a coalition with opposition parties anyway after legislative elections last year, will remain as caretaker Prime Minister until his successor is appointed within 30 days.

North Korea, Which Regularly Threatens to Nuke U.S., Condemns Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’– www.breitbart.com

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The communist regime of North Korea published an outraged screed on Tuesday denouncing President Donald Trump’s plan to implement a “Golden Dome” missile defense system over the United States, and potentially other parts of North America.

President Trump campaigned throughout 2024 on investing in a missile defense system covering the entire United States designed to protect America from the threat of hypersonic, ballistic, and other advanced missiles, referring to it as akin to Israel’s “Iron Dome” system. A week after taking office for his second term, Trump issued an executive order requiring a plan from the incoming secretary of defense within 60 days for a missile defense architecture of this type.

The White House announced last week that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had indeed selected an architecture for the missile defense system, called the “Golden Dome.” President Trump described the system as featuring “next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors” and indicated that the scope of the project is so large that the government of Canada is also interested in participating in the project.

North Korea latest adversary to criticize Trump’s Golden Dome– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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North Korea, much like China and Russia in recent weeks, issued a scathing rebuke on Tuesday of President Donald Trump‘s pursuit of his Golden Dome missile defense system.

Trump has made the Golden Dome — a comprehensive air defense system that, once operational, will be able to intercept various missiles fired from land, sea, and space — a signature of his military policy early in his second term in office.

North Korea‘s foreign ministry said that Trump’s plan is the “height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is an outer space nuclear war scenario supporting the U.S. strategy for uni-polar domination with the preemptive establishment of the outer space-based military substructure, not a ‘defensive measure’ to cope with the ‘threat’ from someone.”

The ministry accused the U.S. of being “hell-bent on the moves to military outer space,” while claiming that the plan for the Golden Dome, as outlined by the Trump administration, “is also the expression of another attempt to militarize outer space coming from the past strategies for dominating outer space and the epitome of revealing the criminal past of the U.S. which plunged the whole world into the nightmare of the outbreak of a nuclear war.”

Mongolia Becomes Unstable in Wake of Anti-PM Protests

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Mongolia’s Coalition government appears to be coming undone after only 10 months as protests push into the second week across the country demanding the current PM resign and a new election take place.

Protests against prime minister in Mongolia could lead to government shake-up– abcnews.go.com
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s 10-month-old coalition government appeared to be breaking up as protests calling on the prime minister to resign entered their ninth day.

The leaders of the three governing parties were meeting Thursday to review their coalition agreement, one day after the largest one — the Mongolian People’s Party — decided to eject the second largest from the coalition.

The People’s Party accused the Democratic Party of breaching the agreement after some of its younger lawmakers backed calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai.

Democratic Party leader Gantumur Luvsannyam, who is the deputy prime minister, said that the views of those legislators were not the party’s position.

“I never signed anything saying I would gag my members. I know my party’s temperament,” he said.

The fate of the prime minister was unclear ahead of a parliament session on Friday. Oyun-Erdene has held the post for four years and survived previous calls to step down.

North Korean warship launch ends in disaster while Kim Jong-un watches | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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A dramatic launch ceremony for a newly built 5,000-ton warship turned into a nightmare in North Korea – right in front of Kim Jong-un, reports the Korean Central News Agency.

The dictator personally attended the high-profile unveiling at Cheongjin Shipyard on May 21, only for the event to end in disaster when a serious accident struck during the launch.

What should have been a proud moment for the regime ended in chaos as the launch process spiralled out of control. Officials failed to coordinate the the launch sequence.

The mistake saw the stern sled release prematurely, becoming stranded, and leaving the bow section hopele

Trump wants South Korea to pay more for U.S. troops on their soil– www.cnbc.com

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Sharing the costs of hosting U.S. troops in allied countries has been a favorite topic of U.S. President Donald Trump since his first term in the White House.

But as more countries try to eke out a deal to escape the spectre of tariffs in his second term, Trump is making his own moves: bundling negotiations on trade, tariffs, and defense cost-sharing into a single comprehensive deal, which he called “one-stop shopping.”

One such country in his sights is South Korea, which is home to about 28,500 U.S. troops known as U.S. Forces Korea. On April 8, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had discussed “payment for the big time Military Protection we provide to South Korea,” among other issues, with then-acting president Han Duck-soo.

“We are bringing up other subjects that are not covered by Trade and Tariffs, and getting them negotiated also. “ONE STOP SHOPPING” is a beautiful and efficient process!!!” Trump wrote.

South Korea’s former President Moon indicted for alleged bribery– www.euronews.com

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Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in was indicted Thursday on bribery charges, accused of accepting illegal favours through a no-show job arranged for his then-son-in-law during his term in office.

Prosecutors say Moon received bribes worth 217 million won (€133,239) from Thai Eastar Jet founder Lee Sang-jik, who allegedly provided wages, housing, and other financial support to Moon’s former son-in-law between 2018 and 2020.

Lee, a former campaign associate of Moon’s, was also indicted for bribery and breach of trust.

The son-in-law was reportedly hired at Lee’s Thailand-based airline company in a director-level role despite having no aviation experience and carried out only minor duties while claiming to be working remotely from South Korea.

Myanmar Junta Rejects Bangladeshi Call for Rohingya State – The Irrawaddy

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Myanmar’s regime has rejected a proposal by Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, for the creation of an independent Rohingya state in Rakhine State.

Jamaat made the proposal during a meeting with a Communist Party of China (CPC) delegation in Dhaka on Sunday. China has not responded.

The Jamaat delegation’s leader Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher told reporters that around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were enduring “inhumane conditions” and humanitarian aid was not a solution.

South Korean Court Convicts, Removes President

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After standing trial for allegedly staging an armed coup, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted by the highest court. The President is now officially removed from office, though he has effectively been suspended since his arrest. By law, an election must take place within 60 days to replace him.

Acting Chief Justice Moon Hyung-bae wrote in the ruling, “[Yoon] committed a grave betrayal of the people’s trust. Sending armed soldiers to parliament in a bid to prevent lawmakers from voting down his decree violated the political neutrality of the armed forces.”

ED.NOTE: Yoon was pro-western. He was accusing the opposition party of being infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party. The removal of Yeol is seen by some as a move by China to conquer South Korea from within. MI will continue to monitor this country, which should be considered at high risk of falling to authoritarianism from within.

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office after trying to stage armed coup– www.thesun.co.uk
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SOUTH Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has been removed from office after attempting to stage an armed coup in the country.

The leader had declared martial law and violated the constitution by mobilising military and police forces to obstruct the parliament in December.

The declaration of martial law, which lasted only about six hours, sparked the country’s worst political crisis in decades.

The judges said in their ruling that Yoon’s actions “violate the core principles of the rule of law and democratic governance”.

They also slammed him for deploying troops for “political purpose”.

Myanmar Military Declares Temporary Truce After Earthquake– www.nytimes.com

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Myanmar’s military on Wednesday declared a 21-day cease-fire to support relief and reconstruction efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake in the country, a day after it fired on a Chinese Red Cross convoy trying to deliver food and medicine to desperate survivors.

The attack on the Chinese convoy, which was widely condemned by rights activists, highlighted the dangers aid groups face from the country’s ongoing civil war.

It remains unclear whether the cease-fire would be honored — armed rebel groups said the military had launched scores of airstrikes since Friday’s 7.7-magnitude temblor, which killed at least 2,700.

In the wake of the earthquake, the shadow government in exile, known as the National Unity Government, and an alliance of three rebel groups announced cease-fires. But the military, which seized power in a coup four years ago, had indicated that it would not stop hostilities. The fierce civil war had already caused widespread suffering before the earthquake, which left millions of people with little food and water.

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Myanmar Hit by 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake

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In the midst of a civil war, the country of Myanmar must also deal with a catastrophic natural disaster, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The death toll went past 3,000. This figure is expected to rise as more rescuers reach remote regions that have been devastated by the earthquake. The earthquake struck March 29, 2025, hitting near Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay.

Myanmar earthquake death toll exceeds 2,700, but survivors still being found – National– globalnews.ca
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Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war.

The fire department in Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble 91 hours after being buried when the building collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit midday Friday. Experts say the likelihood of finding survivors drops dramatically after 72 hours.

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2,719 people have now been found dead, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing, Myanmar’s state MRTV television reported.

NIGHTMARE FUEL: CCTV Footage Captures Moment 7.7 Magnitude Quake Rocks Skyscraper Rooftop Pool– wltreport.com

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NIGHTMARE FUEL: CCTV Footage Captures Moment 7.7 Magnitude Quake Rocks Skyscraper Rooftop Pool– wltreport.com
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Earthquakes are scary to begin with — from ground level.

But try imagining that you’re dozens of stories up on the top of a skyscraper, in a rooftop pool, when a massive quake strikes.

Talk about nightmare fuel!

That was the scenario that unfolded for multiple pool goers atop skyscrapers in the Thai capital of Bangkok last Friday.

The 7.7 Magnitude quake hit neighboring Myanmar, but Bangkok’s high-rise capital city also took an enormous hit.

Buildings are still coming down today nearly 6 days later as a result of the devastating initial quake, and the aftershocks.

From what I can tell, multiple skyscrapers with rooftop pools were captured from different angles during the shaking.

Myanmar Quake Death Toll Could Reach 10,000, CBN Mobilizes Relief Effort– www.cbn.com

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Myanmar Quake Death Toll Could Reach 10,000, CBN Mobilizes Relief Effort– www.cbn.com
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Rescue crews in Myanmar used jackhammers and shovels to find any survivors amid the devastation from Friday’s powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

Many citizens resorted to digging through the debris by hand, trying to locate anyone still trapped.

At one site, an official said they had detected possible signs of life under the rubble.

Rescue efforts have been hampered by buckled roads, downed bridges, and strong aftershocks, including a 5.1 magnitude aftershock Sunday afternoon.

The UN is warning of a shortage of medical supplies, especially since the quake hit in the middle of Myanmar’s ongoing civil war. There are long lines of victims in need.

The staff of CBN Myanmar is mobilizing to help victims, and a global relief team is deploying with clean water filters and solar lamps.