News Headlines - 11 December 2023
▽US F-16 fighter jet crashes into Yellow Sea off South Korea | NHK WORLD
A US F-16 fighter jet crashed into the Yellow Sea on Monday morning. The pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft.
US forces in South Korea announced that the crash occurred during a training flight over waters west of the Korean Peninsula. They say the pilot is "awake and in stable condition."
▽China offers Taiwan colonel US$15 million to defect via CH-47 Chinook | Taiwan News
Chinese spies reportedly offered an Army lieutenant colonel US$15 million (NT$480 million) to defect to China on the condition he did so on a large military helicopter, prompting Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng to vow to bring any such traitors to justice.
The Taiwan High Prosecutor's Office in August arrested a lieutenant colonel surnamed Hsieh on suspicion of being recruited by Chinese operatives to defect to China via helicopter, reported Liberty Times. He reportedly planned to land on a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warship when it approached the median line of the Taiwan Strait.
After completing his defection, he was to receive US$15 million in remuneration. However, prosecutors arrested Hsieh before he could implement the plan.
The Philippines and China on Sunday accused each other of dangerous maneuvers and causing a collision in contested waters in the South China Sea, the latest in a string of maritime confrontations between the two countries that have heightened regional tensions.
▽Pro-Beijing candidates sweep Hong Kong district council polls | NHK WORLD
Pro-Beijing candidates have swept almost all the seats in Hong Kong's district council elections. The turnout in Sunday's polls was a record low of 27.5 percent as pro-democracy parties were unable to field any candidates after a change in the election system.
Vote counting was over by Monday morning for the 88 directly elected seats in the 18 district councils.
The turnout plummeted from the record high of 71.2 percent in the last elections in 2019 and was the lowest since Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China in 1997.
A 21-year-old Ground Self-Defense Force personnel was arrested Sunday on suspicion of fatally stabbing an unacquainted elderly man who lived in an apartment in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto.
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