Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 22:41:35 +0000
HONG KONG – On one end of a Hong Kong street, protesters dressed in black ducked behind umbrellas and makeshift barricades, occasionally throwing bricks or slinging rocks.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh on August 2 suggested participating countries of the East Asia Summit (EAS) enhance their maritime cooperation and connectivity.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 06:30:33 +0000
Thousands of civil servants filled Chater Garden in the heart of the business district on Friday (Aug. 2) night to protest the government’s handling of a contentious extradition bill in a rare show of dissent.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 03:36:26 +0000
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the southern coast of Banten on Friday evening, with shocks felt in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 02:35:33 +0000
China strongly opposes US plan to impose additional 10-percent tariffs on US$300 billion of Chinese imports and will have to take necessary countermeasures to defend its interests, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 02:20:55 +0000
Twenty-one-year-old Asma Pun enjoys meeting her friends for a drink in cafes. And as much as she prefers to slurp her drinks with a straw, environment-conscious Pun says she has always been hesitant to use plastic ones.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:42:09 +0000
The Chinese army has released a promotional video for its Hong Kong-based troops at a time of uncertainty over whether the military will intervene in the city’s summer of protest.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:34:29 +0000
A 72-year-old South Korean man was in critical condition after setting himself ablaze in downtown Seoul on Thursday, a police official said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:24:35 +0000
Iran’s president lambasted new U.S. sanctions by the Trump administration targeting the country’s foreign minister, describing the move on Thursday as “childish” and a barrier to diplomacy.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:41:57 +0000
HAGATNA, Guam – Non-native residents of Guam should have a say about the territory’s future relationship with the United States, a U.S. appeals court ruled.
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