Military expenditure the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region increased sharply in the last year, reaching a total of $681bn - an increase of 8.1% year on year and the largest annual expansion in military ...

As Asia's premier defense summit wraps up, leaders have put forward perspectives on a range of topics in the defense realm. Here are some of the most interesting quotes that CNBC has heard during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People walk at the venue of the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue security summit in Singapore May 29, 2026. REUTERS/Edgar Su SINGAPORE, ...

The Australian frigate HMAS Anzac docks at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force base at Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, for a port of call on June 10, 2023. (STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Australia and ​Fiji on ‌Monday signed a ​new ​mutual defence alliance as ⁠well ​as a ​treaty to strengthen economic and ​security ​cooperation.

Nations seem to accept that they need to boost their defense spending. Several countries traded barbs with China, which again sent a relatively low-level delegation to the event. Ukraine may be far ...

Disruption to Gulf energy, fertiliser, and chemical feedstock production and transit represents a structurally significant risk to Asia Pacific economic stability, given the concentration of supply, ...

SINGAPORE, May 29 (Reuters) - China's decision to send only academics to Asia's biggest defence forum is a missed opportunity at a moment when countries need more "strategic reassurance" from Beijing, ...