Philippines | Still-unknown disease prompts culling of pigs

The Philippine agriculture chief said this week that an unspecified number of pigs has died or been culled in backyard farms in recent weeks and a crisis

Taiwan’s Tsai expresses thanks over approval of F-16V sale

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen thanked the United States yesterday for approving the sale of 66 advanced F-16V fighter jets and urged rival China to respect Taiwan’s

Afghanistan | Museum workers restore art shattered by Taliban as peace deal nears

The Taliban fighters arrived with hammers and hatred. What they left behind is laid out on tables at the National Museum of Afghanistan, 18 years

Syria | Militants leave key rebel town as regular troops push in

The main insurgent group in the Syrian province of Idlib pulled out of a key rebel town as government forces advanced in the area yesterday amid intense

Offbeat | ‘Miracle house’ in Ohio draws pilgrims amid sainthood push

Late in the summer of 1939, crowds of strangers started showing up at Rhoda Wise’s house next to a city dump in Ohio after she let it be known

This Day in History | 1968 – Russia brings winter to ‘Prague Spring’

Dozens of people have been killed in a massive military clampdown in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries. Several members of the liberal Czechoslovak leadership have been

Life & Style | Brad Paisley out; Reba, Dolly, Carrie Underwood to host CMAs

Carrie Underwood, who has hosted the Country Music Association Awards since 2008 with Brad Paisley, is losing her partner-in-crime. But she won’t be on her

Golf | Woods wants US Presidents Cup team playing before Australia

Tiger Woods wants the eight players who made his Presidents Cup team and four more under consideration as captain’s picks to play tournaments and stay sharp

Football | China calls up Brazil-born Elkeson for World Cup qualifier

Brazil-born striker Elkeson is set to become the first player of non-Chinese heritage to play for China’s national soccer team when it starts its World Cup

World briefs

The Buzz | California smuggler of erectile dysfunction drug gets prison

A Southern California man who smuggled $11 million worth of erectile dysfunction drugs into the U.S. from China has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison

Records: Epstein signed will two days before jailhouse suicide

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what

Macau Matters | Crowd-sourced data collection

Premise (www.premise.com) is a recently formed data collection and analysis company based in San Francisco. It plans to recruit, and pay, large numbers of people to use their

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – edition no. 3358

• Association digging for clues on future Chief’s view about visitor tax * Mandarin Bend to be widened before November * The Secretary for Transport and Public Works is leaving urban renewal

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