The United States has briefed China on evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Reuters reported Sept. 2, citing comments from a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
China has launched an investigation into state assets regulator chief and top energy figure Jiang Jiemin for what it says are "serious discipline violations," the government said Sept. 1, Reuters reported.
New commercial satellite imagery shows North Korea undertaking a major expansion of facilities at the Sohae launch site, where the country fired a rocket into orbit last December, according to a report released Aug. 30 by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, AP reported Aug. 31.
The Japanese government is arranging for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to express support for the United States in the event of U.S. military action in Syria, unnamed government sources said Aug. 31, Kyodo reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will meet with British, Chinese, French, Russian and U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations on Aug. 30 after he cut short a trip to Europe, a U.N. spokesman said, AFP reported.
U.S. energy firm Apache Corp. will sell a 33 percent stake in its oil and natural gas business in Egypt to the China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec, for $3.1 billion, Reuters reported Aug. 30.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority took the planned step of classifying a recent toxic water leak at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan as a level 3 "serious incident" on an international scale, CNN reported Aug. 28.
