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CHINA Former Lyon boss Alain Perrin is out as the Chinese men’s national team coach after slightly less than two years in the job. The Chinese Football Association said in
GHANA Two men who were captured in Afghanistan and held at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 14 years without charge have been released and sent to
CHINA“Anti-corruption campaigns hurt high-end luxury consumption, but mid-end luxury is more affordable for the middle class, and it will gain traction in China,” said Larry Hu, head of China economics
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 anxiety was heightened by
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 save them, state media
HONG KONG will likely need to raise taxes and introduce new levies as an aging population is increasing public expenditure. “Facing a fiscal gap brought by an aging population, raising
NORTH KOREA’s top official in charge of relations with South Korea, Kim Yang Gon, died in a traffic accident, potentially dimming the prospect for ties between the rival countries. JAPAN Mountaineer
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 new law banning false
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 country after questioning Beijing's
JAPAN A court gave the go-ahead for the restart of two nuclear reactors after its operator said in an appeal that they were safe. The Fukui District Court in western
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 since May. The announcement
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 schools, a court said.
JAPAN US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy defends a controversial proposal to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base on Okinawa as the best of many options considered. USA Martin Shkreli, the
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 Beijing but is unlikely
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. Anadolu Agency said the
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 Intermediate People’s Court of
CHILE A helicopter working for an MTV reality show crashed in western Argentina on Saturday and both people on board were killed, local authorities said. RUSSIA A fire swept through a
AUSTRALIA Thailand’s highest-ranking police investigator in charge of human trafficking has fled to Australia, telling Australian media yesterday that he feared for his life after his findings implicated “influential people”
INDONESIA Millions of Indonesians vote in nationwide elections for regional leaders in the sprawling archipelago. INDONESIA A strong earthquake strikes off the coast of eastern Indonesia, but officials say there is
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 authorities and state media
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