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CHINA-NORTH KOREA Chinese President Xi Jinping extends his congratulations to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his new title of chairman of the ruling Workers’ ... -
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CHINA 34 bodies have been found and four people were still missing following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project after days of heavy ... -
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CHINA’s navy is searching for 17 sailors after their fishing boat collided with another vessel. Three navy ships operating in the East China Sea off the ... -
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CHINA The prospect of sitting in a Hyatt Regency ballroom in Florida and listening to Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, deliver the keynote ... -
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CHINA’s military is appealing to the younger generation with a slick new recruitment video featuring aircraft carriers, tanks and special forces troops, all set to a ... -
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SOUTH CHINA SEA The Philippine defense chief Voltaire Gazmin said yesterday his government has agreed in principle to lease five Japanese surveillance planes to be used ... -
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PHILIPPINES Allegations that the presidential election frontrunner had millions of dollars in an undeclared bank account have not been resolved after the accuser confronted the mayor’s ... -
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SOUTH CHINA SEA Beijing said it will send a warship and special forces for a multinational exercise next month that is also expected to include troops ... -
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CHINA A Tibetan male character from the “Doctor Strange” comic books presented such a political minefield to Marvel that in the film version they cast a ... -
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CHINA’s national legislature is poised to vote this week on a draft law criticized by overseas governments for tightening controls over foreign non-governmental groups by bringing ... -
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CHINA President Xi Jinping says that China must be on guard against nefarious religious influences from abroad. His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of ... -
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CHINA Authorities in eastern China have halted plans to build a trash incinerator after rowdy street protests by residents and the arrests of four people. The ... -
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NORTH KOREA A Washington envoy said the U.S. and China are united in their opposition to the North’s nuclear tests and worked together to develop the ... -
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SOUTH KOREA An AP investigation shows that rapes and killings of children and the disabled three decades ago at a South Korean institution for so-called vagrants, ... -
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CHINA is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners who could turn out to have secret ... -
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CHINA The Defense Ministry says a military plane was dispatched to one of China’s new man-made islands in a disputed area of the South China Sea ... -
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CHINA’s second-ranking general recently visited the country’s man-made islands in the South China Sea, underscoring defiance in the face of calls by the U.S. and others to cease construction ... -
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CHINA-AUSTRALIA Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hailed business ties with China but skirted sensitive political issues yesterday during an official visit to his country’s key trade ... -
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CHINA Though it has been dismissed by a court, the country’s first legal challenge to a law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples has galvanized many of ... -
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CHINA More than 80 percent of China’s underground water drawn from relatively shallow wells used by farms, factories and mostly rural households is unsafe for drinking ... -
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HIROSHIMA Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries, meeting yesterday in the atomic-bombed Japanese city of Hiroshima, called for a renewed push for flagging ... -
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HONG KONG Revelers dressed up as Donald Trump and several movie characters as they watched Fiji clinch its 16th title at Hong Kong’s biggest annual social ... -
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CHINA Internet giants are providing a haven for bond investors fleeing mounting default risks among the nation’s state-owned enterprises. Investors are snapping up bonds from Alibaba ... -
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CHINA-MYANMAR Aung San Suu Kyi, the newly installed foreign minister, and her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, said that the two had “reached consensus” to approach existing ... -
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CHINA banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country’s main exports, in a significant increase in pressure on the North under U.N. ... -
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BELGIUM Brussels Airlines flight heading to the Portuguese city of Faro has taken off from Brussels Airport — the first passenger flight to leave the airport since ... -
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VIETNAM’s parliament has elected Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan as its chairwoman, making her the first woman to lead the Communist-dominated legislature. The 61-year-old won 95.5 percent ... -
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TAIWAN‘’s outgoing president and his successor emphasize the need for a smooth transition of power amid a slowdown in the island’s high-tech economy and uncertainty over ... -
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CHINA Yu Shaolei, a cultural editor at Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily, has announced his resignation through social media, saying that he could no longer follow ... -
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CHINA A Chinese dissident writer says police in his hometown are holding three of his siblings in retaliation for an article he wrote condemning the detention ... -
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HONG KONG police said missing book editor Lee Bo returned home yesterday following his disappearance in a case that rattled civil liberties advocates in the territory. ... -
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TAIWAN flew international media to its largest island holding in the South China Sea, Taiping Island, in a bid to reinforce its territorial claims in the ... -
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TAIWAN’s government will take international media on a tour of its largest island holding in the South China Sea in a bid to reinforce its territorial ... -
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CHINA Citizens of China have reacted with anger and alarm at news of a massive illegal vaccine operation uncovered in Shandong province. The vaccine ring involved ... -
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CHINA Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting with China’s propaganda chief, Liu Yunshan at a time when Chinese authorities are tightening control ...
