Last Sunday, protesters took police by surprise with a swoop on the
Liaison Office, scrawling graffiti and throwing paint bombs at walls, the national emblem, and a plaque.
The attack on the
liaison office touched a raw nerve in China.
The Hong Kong government strongly condemned the demonstrators' "malicious encirclement" of the Chinese
liaison office building.
The Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) and the Delegate of the German-Saudi Arabian
Liaison Office for Economic Affairs (GESALO) have signed an agreement to establish a "German Desk" at the JCCI.
No director-level meetings have been held at the inter-Korean
liaison office in Gaeseong since Feb.
On Sunday (March 24), during Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu's trip to Hong Kong and Macau, he met with Wang Zhimin and Director of the Macau
Liaison Office, Fu Ziying.
South Africa, she stated, had demoted its Tel Aviv embassy to a
liaison office with limited functionality and would not replace its envoy to Israel, who was recalled last May in protest at Israel's deadly crackdown on Gaza anti-occupation protests.
On Friday, North Korea pulled its staff from the
liaison office, saying that the decision was based on an order from higher-ups.
The
liaison office opened last September as part of a flurry of reconciliation steps.
The
liaison office, located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, had allowed officials from North and South Korea to communicate on a regular basis for the first time since the Korean War.
Pyongyang asserted it did not care whether Seoul stayed at the
liaison office or not, he added.
the green light to open a representative office in the Philippines, bringing to 14 the number of foreign banks operating
liaison offices in the country.