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PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte is cutting short his trip to Japan due to “unbearable pain” in his spinal column caused by his fall during a ... -
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China Chinese authorities have detained a Japanese man, Japan’s government said yesterday, and news reports suggested he might be accused of spying. US-China China’s defense minister ... -
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CHINA People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said the yuan is at an “appropriate level” and cross-border capital flows have stayed balanced since the currency ... -
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China appealed to Washington for a quick end to their trade war but gave no indication yesterday what additional steps Beijing might want before carrying out ... -
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China Tech giant Huawei yesterday reported a double-digit gain in sales despite U.S. sanctions that threaten to disrupt its smartphone and network equipment businesses. Huawei Technologies ... -
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China-US Fees paid by China to the United States and other countries to deliver packages will nearly triple through 2025 under an agreement by the global ... -
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SOUTH KOREAN pop star and actress Sulli (pictured) was found dead at her home south of Seoul yesterday, police said. The 25-year-old was found after her ... -
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China President Xi Jinping told Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli that those attempting to split China will be crushed and that any external force backing ... -
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CHINA-US President Donald Trump said he would meet at the White House today with the leader of the Chinese negotiating team now in Washington for ... -
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THAILAND A court commuted a Taiwanese man’s sentence for smuggling heroin to life imprisonment after sentencing him to death. The Bangkok Criminal Court official confirmed that ... -
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CHINA demanded Washington lift newly imposed sanctions on Chinese tech companies but said yesterday that envoys will go ahead with a U.S. trip for trade talks ... -
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CHINA-US As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point ... -
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CHINA-AUSTRALIA Australia’s ban on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei’s involvement in its future 5G networks and its crackdown on foreign covert interference are testing Beijing’s efforts to ... -
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CHINA warned the U.S. against trying to limit investment ties between the two countries, even as the Trump administration contradicted a report that Washington might ... -
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China A parade tomorrow by China’s secretive military will offer a rare look at its rapidly developing arsenal, including possibly a nuclear-capable missile that could reach ... -
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CHINA Huawei Technologies Co. founder Ren Zhengfei is ready to license his fifth-generation networking technology only to one other company – and he wants that potential ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping yesterday inaugurated a second international airport for the Chinese capital with the world’s biggest terminal ahead of celebrations of the Communist Party’s ... -
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CHINA-US As tensions between China and the United States ratchet up, former California Gov. Jerry Brown sees a way to bring together the world’s largest carbon ... -
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Indonesia At least 20 people were killed yesterday, including three shot by police, in violent protests by hundreds of people sparked by rumors that a teacher ... -
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Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party hopes an economic recovery during its four years of governing will persuade voters in an upcoming general election to return the party ... -
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Philippines Health officials declared a polio outbreak in the country yesterday, nearly two decades after the World Health Organization declared it to be free of the ... -
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China A smiling panda and a walking Chinese lantern will be the mascots for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing. Indonesia is sending 547 ... -
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China A Chinese envoy will head to Washington today to for trade negotiations. The announcement yesterday follows conciliatory gestures by both sides ahead of the October ... -
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CHINA Industrial output rose 4.4% from a year earlier in August, the lowest for a single month since 2002, while retail sales came in below expectations. ... -
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CHINA The government has banned flying kites, drones and captive pigeons over central Beijing for more than two weeks as it prepares for a military parade ... -
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China-US Chinese importers are asking U.S. suppliers for prices of soybeans, pork and other farm goods, the Commerce Ministry said yesterday, in a possible goodwill gesture ... -
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AUSTRALIA The first Chinese-born lawmaker to be elected to Australia’s Parliament has come under attack over her links to a Chinese foreign influence network. Gladys Liu, ... -
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CHINA Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company yesterday at a ... -
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TAIWAN and the Solomon Islands put on a display of friendship yesterday, pledging to deepen ties, even as rumors persist the Pacific nation is close to ... -
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CHINA’s trade with the United States is falling as the two sides prepare for negotiations with no signs of progress toward ending a tariff war that ... -
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China urged Canada to “reflect on its mistakes” and immediately release a detained Huawei executive in comments yesterday on the appointment of a new Canadian ambassador ... -
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China Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei accused U.S. authorities yesterday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to ... -
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Bangladesh The telecommunications regulatory body has asked operators to shut down cellphone services in sprawling camps in the southeast where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees ... -
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China-USA The United States and China went ahead with their latest tariff increases on each other’s goods yesterday, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, ... -
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China said yesterday that it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry’s most prestigious honors, ...
