According to Kyodo News, Japan's Defense Ministry's Unified Shogunate (the equivalent of the General Staff) on4moon22The data release on Sunday said that2015Annual Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets scramble in response to possible airspace violations by Chinese aircraft571Increase from the previous year107Times. The number of emergency liftoffs against Chinese aircraft hit a record of2001The highest since the publication of data by country and region for the year.

It is said that most of the Chinese aircraft flying in the vicinity are warplanes, and that they are apparently flying over the East China Sea and the high seas between the main island of Okinawa and Miyakojima. The Ministry of Defense is analyzing the activities of the Chinese military as the number of SDF warplanes making emergency sorties in response to Chinese aircraft has been increasing year by year.

Emergency liftoff against Russian aircraft288Times. Russian aircraft are mostly intelligence-gathering aircraft.2015surname Nian9In January, a foreign aircraft, possibly a Russian aircraft, violated Japanese airspace off Nemuro, Hokkaido.

2015The total number of emergency air lifts in response to airspace violations for the year was 1,060873The number of times. In addition to the obvious preponderance of targeting of Chinese and Russian aircraft, there were two targeting of Taiwanese aircraft, and the others were12Times.

Governments vow to find tax evaders hiding offshore assets Governments Vow to Find Tax Evaders Hiding Offshore Assets

Offshore bank account documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm have far-reaching implications, with more insider revelations expected in the coming days, while many countries have either vowed to launch investigations or accused the documents in question of being an unfounded attack.

Panamanian President Varela has publicly advocated for transparency of information and has stated that his government would welcome any investigation to protect the Panamanian financial system from exploitation.

Fitzgibbon, a reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, told the Voice of America that documents leaked from the law firm of Mossacko Fonseca related to the22There were 10,000 companies, of which only a few were engaged in illegal or suspicious activities. However, he said that even though the percentage of companies involved in corruption was small, for many of those involved in the investigation, it was enough to indicate that the entire offshore financial system needed to be scrutinized.

Fonseca, co-founder of the law firm Mossaco Fonseca, vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He told the Associated Press that the attention the law firm has received is unjust and that this would not have happened if the firm had not been based in Panama, but in the United States.

The Russian government on Monday accused the move to leak the documents of primarily targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and said U.S. State Department and CIA officials were involved in analyzing the Panama Papers.

A leaked document shows that Putin's cronies have moved through offshore bank accounts nearly20Billions of dollars.

South Korea: a senior officer of the Korean People's Army defected from the North South Korea: Senior North Korean Military Officer Defects

South Korea says a senior North Korean military officer fled from North Korea to South Korea last year.

South Korea's Ministry of Unification and Ministry of National Defense announced the news in Seoul on Monday that the defector was a major who formerly served in the General Bureau of Reconnaissance of the Korean People's Army (KPA), whose name was not released by South Korea. The officer is the highest-ranking military officer among the defectors.

The General Bureau of Reconnaissance of the Korean People's Army conducts espionage activities, including cyberspace attacks, against South Korea. The Directorate is considered to be2010The masterminds behind the torpedo attack on a South Korean warship in 2007, which caused the country's46A navy man was killed. North Korea has denied launching the attack.

Last year, a North Korean diplomat based in Africa defected to South Korea with his family.

The news of the North Korean colonel's defection comes just days after South Korea announced that a state-run restaurant stationed abroad13The collective defection of North Korean employees, which was2011The largest number of people to leave the country en masse since the year.

Since the end of the war on the Korean peninsula, more than 29,000 Koreans have left the country and entered the Republic of Korea.