CHINA’s inflation accelerated to 2.3 percent in February, driven by a jump in food prices, but stayed below the government’s official target for the year. JAPAN The coast guard resumes underwater
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 country has developed miniaturized
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. China’s population reached 1.375
INDIA Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a polluted lake in India’s southern technology hub of Bangalore. People spotted the dead fish floating in Ulsoor
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 government says an American woman
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 single credit institution. In
CHINA’s official Xinhua News Agency says one Chinese citizen was killed and three injured in a shooting in Laos, also the scene of a January bombing that claimed Chinese lives.
NORTH KOREA With tensions high and the United States and South Korea ready to hold their massive annual war games next week, which North Korea sees as a dress rehearsal
MALAYSIA Former leader Mahathir Mohamad has quit the ruling Malay party, saying it has been hijacked by embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak to protect his own interests. Najib has come
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 activities. MYANMAR Hundreds of nationalist
CHINA A Chinese media report says a detained Christian human rights lawyer has confessed to breaking the law by disturbing social order, endangering state security and engaging in unprofessional behavior.
CAMBODIA Meet the Hero Rats: intelligent, surprisingly adorable creatures with some of the most sensitive noses in the animal kingdom. They’ve successfully cleared minefields in Mozambique and Angola, and this
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 built new radar facilities
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. UK A vote by Britain to leave
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 Xiao, a legal expert
JAPAN A corporate whistleblower’s eight-year courtroom battle against Japanese medical device maker Olympus Corp. has ended with a financial settlement and a promise from the company to end its harassment
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 reinforcements, police said yesterday.
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 of Muslims. The court
CHINA Zimbabwe raised USD1 million from the sale of elephants to China and will continue exporting to the Asian country as part of conservation efforts, wildlife authorities said. “We exported
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 of the Chinese Embassy
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