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NORTH KOREA To view the humbling limits of round after round of international sanctions against North Korea, come to Masik Pass. It isn’t a secret military ... -
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NORTH KOREA’s highest court sentences an American tourist who stole a banner to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. Otto Warmbier, 21, was ... -
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CHINA plans to set up a commercial rocket-launch company in view of the market’s potential, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Sanjiang Space Group Co. is ... -
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CHINAWhen legislators head back to their provinces once Beijing’s annual parliamentary gathering concludes today, they’ll be tasked with implementing the eight specific policies outlined and the ... -
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CHINA A much-shared online post about a city woman’s horror at the squalor of her boyfriend’s hometown turned out to be fake, but revealed volumes about ... -
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CHINA Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has visited the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece, where about 14,000 people, mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees, have found ... -
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NORTH KOREA causes a new stir by publicizing a purported mock-up of a key part of a nuclear warhead, with leader Kim Jong Un saying his ... -
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CHINA has no plans to allow couples to have as many kids as they want after changing the one-child policy rule, a health official said yesterday. ... -
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CHINA Seeking to douse fears about China’s economy, the finance minister says that Beijing can manage its rising debt load as it steps up deficit spending ... -
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CHINA’s top economic planning official says it is impossible that the country’s economy would have a “hard landing” after a period of robust growth. PHILIPPINES The ... -
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CHINA-RUSSIA The Bank of China will give Gazprom a 2 billion euro (USD2.2 billion), five-year loan, the Russian state-run energy company’s largest loan agreement from a ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping appears primed to take on the ceremonial title of the “core” of the current generation of leaders, the latest of many accolades ... -
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CHINA Struck by a sudden inspiration for a business plan while cooped up in a room at a southern China detention center, entrepreneur Liu Minghui turned ... -
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CHINA has cut the amount banks are required to hold on reserve in an attempt to inject more money into its slowing economy. The People’s Bank ... -
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CHINA A couple who led a Christian congregation that opposed a government campaign to remove crosses atop churches have been given long prison sentences for illegal ... -
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UNITED NATIONS The U.S. and China have reached agreement on a U.N. resolution that would impose tougher sanctions on North Korea as punishment for its latest ... -
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FIJI A 10-month old baby is among those missing and presumed dead in the cyclone after the boy’s parents told a local television station they lost ... -
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SOUTH CHINA SEA China’s Foreign Ministry reasserts Beijing’s right to develop its South China Sea island outposts following a U.S. think tank’s report that China has ... -
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CHINA HSBC warns of a “bumpier” global financial outlook thanks to China’s slowing economy, as it reports that its profit dipped slightly last year. USA Hillary ... -
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CHINA’s top securities regulator Xiao Gang will step down following months of turmoil in Chinese stock markets that battered faith in Beijing’s economic management.The departure of ... -
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NORTH KOREA Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching “terror” attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said yesterday, as worries about the North ... -
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Philippines Four people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Philippines by suspected Muslim insurgents who wanted to attack military ... -
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BANGLADESH A court in Dhaka has placed a publishing house owner and two other people on remand for publishing books alleged to hurt the religious sentiments ... -
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CHINA Authorities in the Chinese city of Tianjin are moving 10 chemical plants found to be too close to residential areas, six months after a devastating ... -
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CHINA A nationalist newspaper says American politicians are resorting to petty actions following a unanimous bill approval by the Senate to rename the plaza in front ... -
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NORTH KOREA Kim Jong Un had his military chief executed for corruption and other charges, a South Korean official said. If true, the execution of Ri ... -
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CHINA More than 120 people, including senior officials, were responsible for deadly blasts in the Chinese city of Tianjin last year, investigators have said. According to ... -
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THAILAND Police in Bangkok say they have identified a man whose body parts were found floating in the city’s Chao Phraya River as a Spanish consultant, ... -
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CHINA A court in Xinjiang has reduced the sentences of 11 Uighurs convicted of terrorism and endangering state security, including a naturalized Canadian preacher whose life ... -
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ZIKA The World Health Organization declares a global emergency over the explosive spread of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in the ... -
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CHINA has created five new military regions covering the country as part of a continuing drive to reorganize and streamline the 2.3 million-member PLA. The north, ... -
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CHINA strongly condemned the United States after a U.S. warship deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom ... -
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VIETNAM One-party rule in communist Vietnam is a far better alternative to authoritarianism disguised as democracy, the country’s newly elected leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, said yesterday. ... -
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CHINESE stocks sink again while other Asian markets rise and Europe retreats as investors look ahead to the US Federal Reserve’s latest statement on interest rates ... -
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CHINA The government has released and deported a Swedish man it accused of training and funding unlicensed lawyers in the country, after he made an extraordinary ...
