Asia-Pacific
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Laos: Giving rescued bears a new lease on life
Free the Bears has helped rescue over 950 of the world’s most vulnerable bear species, including sun...
October 17, 2022
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China showed ‘significant’ Q3 rebound but faces challenges-state planner
BEIJING, Oct 17 (Reuters) - China's economy showed a significant rebound in the third quarter and em...
October 17, 2022
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Xi pledges ‘strong military’ for China in political report at party congress
Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, expressed his determination to uni...
October 17, 2022
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South Korea kicks off military drills amid talk of North Korean nuclear test
SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters) - South Korea's troops kicked off their annual Hoguk defense drills on Monda...
October 17, 2022
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China’s party congress promises continuity, not change
BEIJING (AP) — The overarching theme emerging from China's ongoing Communist Party congress is one o...
October 17, 2022
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United States, allies work to counter China’s growing fleet of nuclear submarines
WASHINGTON — The United States maintains an advantage over China in terms of both the number and cap...
October 16, 2022
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China rushing to enhance SSBN capabilities
BEIJING — The Chinese military is steadily improving the capabilities of its fleet of nuclear-powere...
October 16, 2022
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China will never renounce right to use force over Taiwan, Xi says
BEIJING (Reuters) — It is up to the Chinese people to resolve the Taiwan issue and China will never ...
October 16, 2022
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Xi touts COVID fight, China economic model in party congress speech
BEIJING (Reuters) — President Xi Jinping on Sunday touted the ruling Communist Party's fight against...
October 16, 2022
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China opens meeting expected to give Xi Jinping 5 more years
BEIJING (AP) — China opened a twice-a-decade Communist Party conference Sunday at the end of which l...
October 16, 2022
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China’s Xi burnishes his cult of personality with ‘achievements,’ slogans to justify third term
In south-central China’s landlocked Hunan Province sits a village nestled in the mountains that has ...
October 16, 2022
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South Korea: YouTube’s ever-growing role in politics
In a recent interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Cho Dong-youn, a former co-head of the De...
October 15, 2022
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In Myanmar’s rebel strongholds, internet can mean life or death
For Zaw Myint Thein, a farmer in northwestern Myanmar, having no internet in the area for more than ...
October 13, 2022
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S. Korean govt looks to prevent kimchi shortages
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s kimchi makers are in serious pain — brought low as a climate change-...
October 13, 2022
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Myanmar court hands Japanese journalist 3 more years in jail
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday convicted a Japanese journalist of vio...
October 13, 2022
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