North Korea says US seeking an excuse for an Asian NATO with South Korea and Japan
Story by Reuters North Korea has criticized an agreement between the United States, South Korea and Japan to strengthen military cooperation —…
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Hong Kong said ‘miracle’ needed to find more survivors from ship sunk in Typhoon Chaba. China just found one
CNN By Kathleen Magramo and Lauren Lau, CNN A rescue team from mainland China saved a crew member of a ship that broke in half and sank during…
Continue ReadingHong Kong rescuers search for crew of vessel that broke in half after being caught in typhoon
By Jorge Engels, Yong Xiong and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A search for more than two dozen crew members whose ship broke in half and sank after being…
Continue ReadingTaliban supreme leader warns foreigners not to interfere in Afghanistan
By Hannah Ritchie and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN The Taliban’s supreme leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has once again warned foreigners not to…
Continue ReadingTaiwan accepts same-sex marriage, so why not adoption?
By Eric Cheung, CNN Wang Chen-wei and Chen Jun-ru are unique among parents in Taiwan. This year, in a landmark legal case, the two men became the…
Continue ReadingHong Kong lawmaker photographed with Chinese President Xi tests positive for Covid-19
CNN By Wayne Chang and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A Hong Kong lawmaker who was photographed standing close to Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this…
Continue ReadingXi Jinping crushed Hong Kong’s opposition. Now he claims handover to China marked ‘beginning of true democracy’
By Nectar Gan, Simone McCarthy and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday claimed “true democracy” began in Hong Kong…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea blames Covid-19 outbreak on ‘unusual items’ near South Korea border
By Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea on Friday claimed its Covid-19 outbreak began when two residents touched “unusual…
Continue ReadingHong Kong marks 25th handover anniversary
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Continue ReadingPandas evolved their most perplexing feature at least 6 million years ago
By Katie Hunt, CNN Giant pandas are notoriously fussy eaters. They only munch on bamboo and each day spend 15 hours eating up to 99 pounds (45…
Continue ReadingXi Jinping leaves mainland China for the first time since the beginning of pandemic
By Jessie Yeung, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left mainland China for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, arriving in Hong Kong…
Continue ReadingChina’s Mars probe has photographed the entire red planet
By Jessie Yeung, CNN After more than a year on the surface of Mars, China’s Tianwen-1 probe has taken images covering the entire red planet,…
Continue ReadingNew Philippine President Marcos Jr. praises dictator father during inauguration address
By Helen Regan, CNN Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was sworn in as the 17th President of the Philippines on Thursday, restoring one of the country’s most…
Continue ReadingAs Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, doctors and bankers protest ‘impossible situation’
Story by Reuters Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched on Wednesday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel…
Continue Reading7 million in Bangladesh need aid after ‘worst floods in memory,’ Red Cross says
By Kathleen Magramo, CNN More than 7 million people in Bangladesh are in desperate need of shelter and emergency relief after what one aid agency has…
Continue ReadingJapan tells millions to save electricity as record heat wave strains power supply
By Heather Chen, Junko Ogura and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Japan is asking some 37 million people living in and around Tokyo to use less electricity and…
Continue ReadingJapan tells millions to save electricity as record heat wave strains power supply
CNN By Heather Chen, Junko Ogura and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Japan is asking some 37 million people living in and around Tokyo to use less electricity…
Continue Reading‘I had to take a chance,’ says Indonesian who caught 14-foot crocodile with rope
Story by Reuters Fellow villagers have praised an Indonesian man for capturing a crocodile measuring 4.3 meters (14.1 feet) on the island of Sulawesi…
Continue ReadingChinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents
CNN By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau The Chinese metropolis of Chengdu imposed a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening,…
Continue ReadingChinese censors scrub internet after senior party official gives speech on timeline of zero-Covid in Beijing
By Yong Xiong, Wayne Chang and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Chinese censors scrambled to delete what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Communist…
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