Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:25 +0000
Wearing a mask to protect yourself from germs and air pollution is quite normal in East Asia. In China it is now even mandatory in a number of provinces when leaving the house. The coronavirus scare has made the public and the government even more conscious of the threat of infection
Credit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:57:09 +0000
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies will convene virtually on Thursday to try and coordinate a response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, which has shuttered businesses and forced well over a quarter of the world’s population into home isolation. The meeting for the Group of 20 nations will be chaired by […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 05:07:34 +0000
NEW YORK: With masks, ventilators and political goodwill in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to stay in their homes Monday (Tuesday in Manila) at the start of what could be a pivotal week in the battle to contain the coronavirus in the US and Europe. Partisan divisions stalled efforts […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Associated Press| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:15:33 +0000
BANGKOK: Authoritarian governments in Asia are undermining human rights and demonizing their critics, but they face a rising tide of protest from young people who defy grave risks to protest such repression, Amnesty International said in its annual report on the region. The human rights group’s annual survey of the Asia-Pacific region, released Wednesday, said […]
Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:33:01 +0000
BEIJING, China — It was meant to be an unabashed celebration of the triumph of Communism in China, and of President Xi Jinping’s authority as the country’s undisputed leader for years to come. But as the People’s Republic of China approaches its 70th anniversary on October 1st, Xi finds himself battling threats on multiple fronts. From […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 02:39:59 +0000
BEIJING — A spokesman for China’s ceremonial legislature has condemned statements from U.S. lawmakers supportive of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. You Wenze called the comments “a gross violation of the spirit of the rule of law, a blatant double standard and a gross interference in China’s internal affairs.” He says Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:56:33 +0000
TOKYO, Japan — A powerful tropical storm lashed Japan on Thursday, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that injured at least 14 people, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period. Severe Tropical Storm Krosa — one notch below a typhoon — was churning slowly […]
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:11:09 +0000
SEOUL — South Korea plans to add two more ground-based anti-missile early warning radars and build three Aegis-equipped destroyers in the next five years in an effort to better detect and intercept incoming missiles from North Korea, the defense ministry said Wednesday. The plan was one of the key projects that the ministry unveiled in its five-year […]
Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:58:45 +0000
SEOUL — When Korea was under Japan’s colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, many Koreans lost their houses and land to the Japanese. A significant portion of Korean property was forcefully taken by the Japanese military and sold cheaply to its residents. The fledging Korean government, established in 1948, pledged to retrieve the property from the Japanese […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:08:17 +0000
BEIJING — A senior U.S. diplomat says Washington is consulting with its allies as it proceeds with plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia, a move China says it will respond to with countermeasures. Washington has said it plans to place such weapons in the Asia-Pacific following the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces […]
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