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INDIA A death warrant was issued yesterday for the four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati yesterday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation’s leader since ... -
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TAIWAN President Tsai Ing-wen convened a meeting of top defense officials and urged them to be on a lookout for military developments concerning China following a ... -
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US-CHINA US President Donald Trump said he will sign the first phase of a trade deal with China on Jan. 15, sealing an agreement that sees ... -
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CHINA A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced yesterday to ... -
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TAIWAN President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday that the self-governing island’s democracy remains under direct threat from rival China, underscoring her calls for closer ties with the ... -
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INDONESIA Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Aceh province at ceremonies yesterday marking the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history’s ... -
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CHINA The government yesterday attacked the newly created U.S. Space Force as a “direct threat to outer space peace and security.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang ... -
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HONG KONG The violent crash of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong killed six people and injured more than 30 others yesterday, police said. The crash ... -
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CHINA A state-owned utility says it has bought 49% of the power distribution grid in the Gulf nation of Oman. State Grid Corp. described the purchase ... -
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CHINA A Chinese official says Beijing wants a prompt settlement of its trade war with Washington. A deputy commerce minister said late yesterday that Beijing wants ... -
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CHINA Tech-giant Huawei’s reputation has been repeatedly attacked by the United States and others over allegations of Communist Party control. Now its vaunted status at home ... -
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CHINA Some of the country’s wealthiest tycoons steered billions of dollars into electric-car companies in order to fuel the country’s dreams of becoming a leader in ... -
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CHINA’s foreign ministry urged Canada to free an executive of telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies held for more than a year as she awaits an extradition ... -
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CHINA Guidelines that require Chinese telecom carriers to use facial recognition technology on buyers of SIM cards kicked in yesterday as the country cracks down on ... -
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TRUMP-KIM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump have signaled their affection for each other so regularly it might be easy to miss ... -
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CHINA-US Top Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators have agreed to talks on a preliminary deal for resolving the tariff war between the world’s two largest economies, ... -
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CHINA The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. But a newly ... -
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TAIWAN Filmmaker Ang Lee says China’s boycott of Taiwan’s Golden Horse film awards demonstrates how politics can take its toll on the arts. Beijing’s order to ... -
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CHINA’s ruling Communist Party’s newspaper has published surveillance video, which it says proves the guilt of a former British Consulate employee in Hong Kong who was ... -
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CHINA A former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police trying to extract information about ... -
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TAIWAN Chinese attempts to interfere in Taiwan’s presidential election campaign are happening “every day,” the island’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, said yesterday. Tsai gave no details, but ... -
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CHINA pressed Washington yesterday to roll back punitive tariffs in a tentative trade deal. A tariff cut is an “important condition” for the agreement that is ... -
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JAPAN Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako waved and smiled from an open car in a parade yesterday marking Naruhito’s enthronement as more than 100,000 delighted well-wishers ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping yesterday hailed a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron as giving a boost to multilateralism and free trade, amid ongoing economic tensions ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping promised more gradual market-opening steps at the start of an import fair yesterday but no initiatives on technology policy and other irritants ... -
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THAILAND Seven Southeast Asian leaders skipped an important meeting with the United States yesterday after President Donald Trump decided not to attend their regional summit in ... -
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THAILAND Thai Airways has disclosed that its chairman has resigned as the carrier struggles with financial challenges. BANGLADESH A court in Dhaka granted bail yesterday to ... -
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China Hackers with a history of state-sponsored espionage have intercepted the text messages of thousands of foreigners in a targeted campaign that planted eavesdropping software on ... -
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China and the West clashed at the U.N. human rights committee over claims that Beijing systematically oppresses ethnic minority Muslims in far western Xinjiang province. Myanmar ... -
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China The government promised more improvements in conditions for foreign companies including an end to officials pressing them to hand over technology ― a key irritant ... -
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HONG KONG While groups of hardcore protesters tangling with riot police have become the movement’s most visible symbol, others are using skin and ink to show ... -
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CHINA A senior Chinese foreign-exchange regulatory official called for “special attention” to be paid to blockchain as the nation looks to gain advantages from digital finance. ... -
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UK All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated container truck near an English port were Chinese citizens, British police confirmed yesterday as they investigated one ... -
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HONG KONG Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters formed a human chain at the British Consulate last night to rally support for their cause from the city’s former ...
