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HONG KONG Malaysian authorities denied entry to a radical Hong Kong lawmaker at Kuala Lumpur’s airport on Friday, the second time this week they have barred ... -
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CHINA Responding to sharply worded comments from the U.S. defense secretary, China yesterday defended its building of artificial islands in the South China Sea and accused ... -
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CHINA A Beijing court yesterday sentenced two young men to up to five months in jail for dangerous driving after they crashed a Lamborghini and a ... -
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SOUTH KOREA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in South Korea where he will be discussing security issues amid fresh fears of North Korean belligerence ... -
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CHINA Lion dancers and flower-bearing children welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to central China where President Xi Jinping hosted him with a touch of personal ... -
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CHINA accuses the United States of meddling in its internal judicial affairs after the State Department urged Beijing to release prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang who ... -
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MALAYSIAN police said yesterday that they have detained 12 men with suspected links to the Islamic state group who are believed to be plotting attacks on ... -
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CHINA Search teams recover the bodies of 21 Chinese coal miners who died when the shaft where they were working filled with water. More than 600 ... -
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CHINA The fifth Beijing International Festival opened yesterday in China’s capital city, where the local government and national film authorities are hoping to raise the event’s ... -
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TIBET A nun set herself on fire while crying out for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet in the latest in dozens of self-immolations in ... -
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CHINA Seven members of a family on a holiday outing in southern China drowned when a 17-year-old girl fell into a reservoir and several relatives dove ... -
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JAPAN Even as Japan remains divided over proposed changes in the role it should play in regional security issues, senior U.S. and Japanese military officers say ... -
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CHINA & JAPAN China and Japan report gloomy industrial data, adding to pressure on leaders of the world’s second- and third-largest economies to launch new stimulus. ... -
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THAILAND’s military-installed prime minister said yesterday he plans to lift martial law 10 months after staging a coup, but will invoke a special security measure that ... -
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CHINA The U.S. stood firm on rejecting membership in a new China-led infrastructure bank, citing concerns it will fall short of international standards even as the ... -
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CHINA Leaders of Beijing’s bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics said Wednesday the capital’s notorious air pollution will be much improved by the time of the ... -
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SINGAPORE As the health of the founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew deteriorated on the weekend, thousands of Singaporeans visit his hospital and a community center ... -
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VANUATU Relief groups are struggling to get supplies to residents living in Vanuatu’s cyclone-ravaged outer islands as survivors grew desperate for food and water five days ... -
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CHINA An earthquake in the eastern Chinese city of Fuyang has killed two people and damaged thousands of homes. The quake struck in the Anhui province ... -
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CHINA’s top judge renewed his commitment to uncovering and overturning wrongful convictions, citing to national legislators yesterday the much-publicized case of an 18-year-old executed and confirmed ... -
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USA America’s racial history “still casts its long shadow upon us,” the nation’s first black president said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with ... -
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SINGAPORE yesterday sentenced two German men to three strokes of a rattan cane and nine months in prison after they were found guilty of vandalizing a ... -
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CHINA indicated Friday that it opposes a U.S.-drafted resolution that would open a path for U.N. sanctions against those blocking peace and promoting violence in South ... -
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SINGAPORE’s government says Lee Kuan Yew (pictured), the city-state’s founding father, remains on life support in intensive care being treated for severe pneumonia. A statement from ... -
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THAILAND A Chilean cyclist’s quest to bike around the world in five years has ended with his death in a road accident in northeast Thailand. Police ... -
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AFGHANISTAN Taliban suicide bombers dressed as police officers attacked a police station Tuesday in Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people in the latest assault targeting local ... -
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CHINA has ordered stepped-up safety measures over the CNY travel rush in the wake of terrorist threats and the fatal stampede in Shanghai. Beijing estimates about ... -
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CHINA The latest hot product in China’s shadow- banking industry is giving Chen Ruogang the convenience of Internet commerce, triple the returns of deposits and regular ... -
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USA-ASIA The U.S. has invited Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China’s President Xi Jinping for state visits. President Barack Obama will also welcome South Korean ... -
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EGYPT A senior Egyptian prison official and the country’s official news agency say Al-Jazeera’s Australian reporter Peter Greste has been freed from prison after more than ... -
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MALAYSIA’s government declares the crash of Flight 370 an accident to pave the way for compensation claims, angering victims’ families still waiting for evidence, while officials ... -
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CHINA recorded its first drop in coal production since 2000 last year, as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter pulls back on its use of the ... -
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THAILAND’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has stoutly defended her government’s money-losing rice subsidy program, seeking to stave off a legislative vote that could ban her ... -
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HONG KONG The teenage face of Hong Kong’s democracy protests turned himself in Friday but was released by police. Joshua Wong (pictured), 18, and three other ... -
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CHINA Thirty-two officials in far-western China have been punished over alleged bribe-taking, nepotism or other wrongdoing in the choosing of people for over-subscribed Muslim pilgrimages to ...
