The House select committee on U.S.-China competition, freshly under new leadership, is training its sights on a range of tech, defense, economic and foreign policy issues.

Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing minor damage to one vessel, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict.

An explosion in Cambodia that killed 20 soldiers at an army base appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops, a senior military official said.

The Philippines took delivery of a Japanese-made mobile air-surveillance radar this week amid ongoing tensions with China over contested territory in the South China Sea.

Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano erupted Tuesday for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris.

Jet fuel contamination of the Navy’s Pearl Harbor drinking water system in late 2021 was too minute and too short-lived to have caused long-lasting medical problems by those exposed to it, an attorney for the U.S. government said in Hawaii federal court.

China claims neutrality in the Ukraine conflict, but Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared their governments had a “no limits friendship” before Moscow’s February 2022 attack on Ukraine.

A driver fleeing a traffic stop on Naval Base Guam caused base security officers to stop all traffic at the main gate for nearly three hours.

A trial for a mass environmental injury case begins in Hawaii on Monday, more than two years after a U.S. military fuel tank facility under ground poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water.

There has been no public explanation of what caused the Saturday afternoon blast at the base in Kompong Speu province, though there were no suggestions it was triggered deliberately.