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AUSTRALIA’s deputy prime minister announced his retirement yesterday, with the prime minister likely to announce a cabinet reshuffle before elections due this year. Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, who is
SOUTH KOREA says it has agreed to begin talks with Washington on possible deployment of a US missile defense system. INDIAN authorities have deported an Australian man on suspicion of being
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, surnamed David, and also
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 term had been sharply
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 Americas, calling it an
THAILAND says it has accelerated its fight against human trafficking and unregulated fishing. Bangkok says in the past eight months it has investigated 36 cases, arrested 102 suspects and rescued
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 of navigation and challenge China’s vast
SOUTH KOREA Samsung Electronics reports a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor business suffered from weakening global demand for consumer electronics. INDONESIA's state-owned telecommunications company
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 and the economic outlook. JAPAN
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 confession broadcast on state
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 China Sea. THAILAND A Japanese
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. The blaze broke out early
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 the epicenter of the
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 island following its election
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 agency Xinhua reported. The
JORDAN The World Health Organization hopes to eradicate polio in 2016, after containing outbreaks in conflict-ridden Syria, Iraq and Somalia by immunizing millions of children over two years. Christopher Maher,
CHINESE state media say a Hong Kong book publisher whose disappearance sparked international interest voluntarily surrendered months ago to mainland authorities. Gui Minhai said in detention that he surrendered in October, 10 years
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 Chinese New Year. The
CHINA Stock market and currency turmoil has battered Chinese leaders’ reputation as shrewd economic managers and fed doubts about their willingness to push through more wrenching reforms. In the stock
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 latest senior figure to
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