China sends envoy to Washington

China said yesterday it is sending an envoy to the United States this week for talks aimed at cooling a trade dispute that threatens to upend markets

Trump offers US aid to penalized Chinese telecom company

In a surprising overture to China, President Donald Trump says he would help a Chinese telecommunications company get “back into business,” saying too many jobs

Strait Diplomacy | Taiwan boosts domestic arms makers as Beijing’s warnings loom

Standing on his company’s sprawling campus in central Taiwan, Lin Nan-juh says he’s able to make any plane his island’s government calls for. “We can

Xinhua View | PRC embraces major progress in civil aircraft

China is seeing major progress in three civil aircraft models, with the ARJ21 in operation, the C919 in flight tests and the CR929 in preliminary design, said

Indonesia | Police say new suicide bombings work of two families

An Indonesian family brought its 8-year-old daughter to a suicide bomb attack it launched yesterday on the police headquarters in the country’s second-largest city, authorities said, a

South Korea | Moon praises North’s plan to dismantle nuke site

South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday welcomed North Korea’s announcement that it is set to dismantle its only nuclear test site, calling it a start to the

India | Powerful storms kill at least 43 across northern state

Powerful winds and rainstorms swept across a crowded swath of northern India, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 43 people as the winds turned

Nepal | Canadian aid worker charged with child sexual abuse

An official in Nepal says a prominent Canadian aid worker has been arrested at his mountain villa and charged with sexually abusing children. Central Investigation

Chile | People denounce suffering sex abuse by Marists, priests

Even as Pope Francis apologized for his failures in connection with Chile’s most famous case of clerical sex abuse, the pope and that country’s deeply discredited Catholic Church

Offbeat | British seasonal produce on menu for royal wedding reception

The menu for the reception after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will feature a bonanza of British produce. Royal chef Mark Flanagan said yesterday many

This Day in History | 1993 – French police rescue child hostages

Masked police commandos have freed six girls with their nursery teacher and shot dead an armed man, ending a two-day hostage crisis at a nursery school in

Football | ‘Big 6’ pulling further clear in top-heavy Premier League

The Premier League prides itself on being the most competitive in the world and points to Leicester’s 2016 title triumph at preseason odds of 5,000-1 as

On the road to the World Cup | Uruguay 1930: where it all began

The 21st World Cup gets underway next month in Moscow and billions around the world are expected to tune in during the monthlong tournament — a far

World briefs

SOUTH CHINA SEA China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier has begun sea trials, underscoring how the country is building naval assets to assert its maritime claims in the South

Vatican’s Inquisition, Index of Banned Books open for study

The Vatican’s doctrine office, once responsible for the Inquisition, the Index of Prohibited Books and famous for its centuries of secrecy, is reminding scholars that it’s actually a

Australian climbs 7 peaks in 7 continents in record time

An Australian mountaineer scaled Mount Everest yesterday, completing his quest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents in record time, an expedition organizer said. Australian

Our Desk | DSEJ’s blind self-confidence

When government departments do not know how to lie, or when they do not want to lie, they make themselves look and sound funny. The Education

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 – edition no. 3047

  * 52 dead, 770 wounded Holy Land on fire * First witnesses heard in activists’ trial * PJ shows facilities as Costa Nunes case escalates * Marina Bay Sands possible venue for Kim-Trump

Sulu Sou to begin trial today at Court of First Appeal

Lawmaker and political activist Sulu Sou will stand trial this morning at the Court of First Appeal, facing charges of qualified disobedience linked to

Ng Lap Seng gets 4 years prison in UN bribery case

A local billionaire was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for bribing United Nations officials to buy their support for a proposed UN center in Macau

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