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N. Korea threatens to build more nukes, cites US hostility
Jan 9, 2021

N. Korea threatens to build more nukes, cites US hostility

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal while disclosing a list of high-tech weapons systems under development in response to what he called hostile American polic...

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Japan declares emergency for Tokyo area as cases spike
Jan 7, 2021

Japan declares emergency for Tokyo area as cases spike

Japan has declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby areas as coronavirus cases continue to surge, hitting a daily record of 2,447 in the capital...

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EXPLAINER: What's behind N. Korea's biggest political event
Jan 6, 2021

EXPLAINER: What's behind N. Korea's biggest political event

North Korea has opened its biggest political event in five years amid what some experts see as the most fraught moment of leader Kim Jong Un’s nine-year rule...

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South Korean tanker was boarded by armed Iran Guard forces
Jan 5, 2021

South Korean tanker was boarded by armed Iran Guard forces

The owners of a vessel seized by Iran say that armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker the day before and forced the ship to travel to Iran...

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Former head of China state asset firm sentenced to death
Jan 5, 2021

Former head of China state asset firm sentenced to death

The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company has been sentenced to death for bribe taking in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years...

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NYSE withdraws plans to delist 3 Chinese phone carriers
Jan 5, 2021

NYSE withdraws plans to delist 3 Chinese phone carriers

The New York Stock Exchange says it no longer plans to remove shares of three Chinese state-owned phone carriers as ordered by President Donald Trump...

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Where is Jack Ma, China's e-commerce pioneer?
Jan 5, 2021

Where is Jack Ma, China's e-commerce pioneer?

China’s best-known entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, hasn't been seen in public since he angered regulators with an October speech...

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Protest outside Japan's Mitsubishi over wartime forced labor
Oct 30, 2020

Protest outside Japan's Mitsubishi over wartime forced labor

About a dozen people have protested outside Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, demanding Japanese companies pay compensation for their wartime abuse of Korean laborers...

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Asia Today: Japan crosses 100,000 cases, 9 months after 1st
Oct 30, 2020

Asia Today: Japan crosses 100,000 cases, 9 months after 1st

Japan’s health ministry says coronavirus cases have topped 100,000, nine months after the first case was found in mid-January...

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China's leaders vow to become self-reliant technology power
Oct 30, 2020

China's leaders vow to become self-reliant technology power

China’s leaders say they will make their country into a self-reliant “technology power” as a feud with Washington cuts access to U.S. computer chips and other high-tech components, hampering Beijing’s...

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