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CHINA-LAOS The prime minister of communist Laos assures US Secretary of State John Kerry that the small nation will help counter China’s assertiveness in the South ... -
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CHINA Eight people died and five were injured after a fire broke out at a residential township in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported, citing emergency services. ... -
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CHINA A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck a remote region of northwest China early yesterday, damaging a few dozen homes but causing no casualties. Xinhua News Agency said ... -
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CHINA A deputy head of the Chinese Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office is placed under investigation for apparent corruption amid renewed scrutiny of Beijing’s policies toward the ... -
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CHINA’s central bank yesterday announced it will inject at least 600 billion yuan (USD91.46 billion) to provide liquidity for the impending Spring Festival holiday, the state-run ... -
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CHINA As international markets watch anxiously, China is due to release a flood of data today that is likely to show economic growth slowed in the ... -
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UNITED NATIONS An estimated USD40 billion is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people that require humanitarian aid as a result of conflicts ... -
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CHINA Authorities in central China say five people have been killed and seven injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory, just weeks ahead of the ... -
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CHINA Several rights lawyers, including a woman who represented women’s rights advocates, have been formally arrested, about six months after they were taken away. Li Yuhan, ... -
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CHINA A court in northern China sentences a former vice minister of public security to 15 years in jail for accepting bribes. Li Dongsheng is the ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping has reorganized the military headquarters’ structure in a sign of his firm control over the 2.3 million-member armed forces. State media reported ... -
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CHINA Ford reported record sales of about 1.1 million vehicles in China last year. The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker said Friday that its 2015 sales in the country were ... -
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CHINA Eleven workers trapped underground in a coal mine collapse have died, authorities in central China said, the latest in a series of mining disasters. The ... -
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CHINA Rescuers have dug out dozens of bodies from a massive landslide that occurred at a construction waste dump in Shenzhen more than two weeks ago, ... -
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CHINA Fears escalate that the global economy could struggle more than expected this year — a prospect that contributed to a plunge in financial markets. The ... -
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CHINA Rescuers have dropped provisions to four Chinese mine workers trapped for 10 days in a wrecked gypsum mine and are slowly drilling a route to ... -
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CHINA Authorities in Shenzhen arrested 11 people for their role in a landslide unleashed at construction waste dump last month that killed 12 people and left ... -
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CHINA Rescuers using infrared cameras at a wrecked mine found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered ... -
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CHINA Two men were detained in Shenzhen for spreading a rumor that hundreds of terrorists have arrived in the city, police say, just days before a ... -
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CHINA says it will impose new restrictions on media reports about domestic terrorism, as it continues to deride a French journalist being forced to leave the ... -
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CHINA’s rubber-stamp national legislature yesterday approved the country’s first anti-terrorism law, amid concerns that its requirements that tech companies share information with the government could hurt business ... -
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SOUTH KOREA The Health Ministry declared yesterday a formal end to an outbreak of the MERS virus that killed 38 people and sickened dozens of others ... -
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CHINA Fourteen construction managers were sentenced yesterday to prison terms of three to six years for a deadly scaffolding collapse at one of Beijing’s most prestigious ... -
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RUSSIA-US Russia is ready to improve ties with the US and work with whomever is elected its next president, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday. He said ... -
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US–TAIWAN The Obama administration is planning its first arms sale to Taiwan in four years, congressional aides said, a move that typically draws stiff criticism from ... -
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TURKEY The state-run news agency says police have detained a Syrian Islamic State militant suspected of planning a suicide attack against the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul. ... -
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CHINA The reprieved death sentence of former railways minister Liu Zhijun was commuted yesterday to life in prison by the Beijing Higher People’s Court. The Second ... -
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FRANCE Marine Le Pen’s (pictured) anti-immigration National Front was the frontrunner heading into the decisive second round of French regional elections yesterday, and now it’s up ... -
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CHINA’s environment ministry said pollutants were reduced by a third in Beijing during this week’s temporary restrictions to reduce heavy smog, which included taking half the ... -
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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time’s Person of the Year, praised yesterday by the magazine for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to ... -
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CHINA Masked men attack a government office in western China, smashing vehicles and equipment and leaving 13 people injured in a regional dispute over farmland, local ... -
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INDONESIA Police say a commuter train slammed into a passenger minibus at a railroad crossing in Indonesia’s capital, killing at least 14 people and seriously injuring ... -
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CHINA’s economy will grow slightly faster than expected this year at 6.9 percent and its shift to fostering services and private consumption is helping support regional ... -
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CHINA The addition of China’s yuan to the select basket of currencies used as a yardstick by the International Monetary Fund is a sign that the ... -
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CHINA A gas leak at a steel parts factory in eastern China kills 10 people and leaves seven others hospitalized. The Zouping County government says on ...
