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PHILIPPINES Rescuers pulled out four bodies and four survivors but at least 19 others remained missing yesterday after a massive typhoon-triggered landslide crashed down on two government ... -
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JAPAN-KOREA In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan’s ... -
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SOUTH CHINA SEA The U.S. Navy will continue patrolling the disputed South China Sea, a top Navy official said yesterday, after a Chinese destroyer came dangerously close ... -
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CHINA-JAPAN Around 500 Japanese business leaders will accompany Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when he visits Beijing this week, amid an ongoing China-U.S. trade feud that is hurting ... -
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TAIWAN At least 22 people were killed and 171 others injured yesterday when one of Taiwan’s newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular ... -
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SAUDI ARABIA U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that “rogue killers” could be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation offering Saudi ... -
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SOUTH CHINA SEA China’s ambassador to the United States has defended the Chinese navy’s action in a close encounter with a U.S. destroyer in the South China ... -
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JAPAN A powerful typhoon was ripping through Japan yesterday and authorities were warning people to brace for heavy winds and rain in areas that include those ... -
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PHLIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte is opposing an offer by the U.S. defense chief and other top American officials to buy F-16 fighter jets, saying such an ... -
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PHILIPPINES An Australian nun who irked the Philippine president by joining political rallies defied an Immigration Bureau order to leave the country and appealed to justice officials ... -
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NEW ZEALAND announced yesterday that it plans to significantly boost the amount of aid money it spends in the South Pacific, as China’s influence in the region ... -
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China Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world to protest a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has ... -
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China Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world yesterday to protest a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has ... -
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CHINA Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said that it doesn’t matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will ... -
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JAPANESE marked the seventh anniversary of a tsunami that took more than 18,000 lives on the northeast coast and triggered a nuclear disaster that turned nearby ... -
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ISRAEL Arabs and Muslims across a Middle East on edge warned yesterday that President Donald Trump’s anticipated announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would inflame Muslim ... -
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N.KOREA The crew of a Cathay Pacific flight saw what it believes was North Korea’s latest missile test last week, the second airline to report sighting ... -
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CHINA Authorities blamed illegal mining activities for a gas explosion at a coal mine that killed 18 miners left two others missing, Chinese state media reported ... -
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USA Donald Trump blamed the moderator, a bad microphone and anyone but himself yesterday after he was forced onto defense by Hillary Clinton’s cascade of critiques ... -
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SYRIA President Bashar Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from ... -
Friday, September 23, 2016 – edition no. 2650
* Audit report slams IACM over unsafe public spaces * Section of Great Wall of China marred in name of restoration * Number of Indian tourists ... -
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CAMBODIA has deported 50 Chinese and 13 Taiwanese citizens to China over an alleged internet scam, complying with demands from Beijing, a senior police official said ... -
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JAPAN Two aides to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the nation is planning to bring in more overseas workers to bolster the shrinking labor force. ... -
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CHINA Four employees at Chinese internet giant Alibaba have lost their jobs after being accused of reprogramming an internal system to steal more than 100 boxes ... -
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CHINA’s auto sales soared 26.3 percent in August over a year earlier, an industry group reported Friday, driven by demand for smaller cars and the impending ... -
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CHINA agreed to cooperate more closely with its trading partners on its politically volatile steel exports in an apparent endorsement of free trade. HONG KONG A ... -
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CHINA While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the ... -
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CHINA Shares plunged yesterday, with a gauge of smaller companies sinking 5.5 percent, as people familiar with the matter said the China Banking Regulatory Commission is ... -
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CHINA Nine people were killed and two others injured after two SUVs collided in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, according to government sources. The collision happened on ... -
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CHINA At least 75 people in northern China have died or gone missing since Monday in some of the worst flooding in years, the government said ... -
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CHINA’s economic growth held steady in the most recent quarter, suggesting policies meant to counter the slowdown in the world’s second biggest economy are paying off ... -
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TAIWAN A powerful typhoon approaches eastern Taiwan, churning up huge waves and wind that ground fishing boats, commercial ships and planes. CHINA Water levels start to ... -
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CHINA-UN A U.N. panel says China has arbitrarily detained an American woman in violation of international human rights norms, bringing her case back into public attention ... -
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CHINA-ITALY Silvio Berlusconi’s long quest to find a new owner for his soccer club AC Milan appears to be close to a conclusion with the former ... -
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JAPAN Japanese police arrest an American serviceman for alleged drunken driving on Okinawa, days after the lifting of an off-base drinking ban imposed after other alcohol ...
