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Asia

14 Dec
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday he would tackle a major funding scandal within his party "like a ball of fire", with reports saying he will sack four ministers. The furore...
14 Dec
Leaders of South Korea and the Netherlands vowed to bolster co-operation in the critical semiconductor sector. During the meeting, South Korean President said the two countries wanted to "combine each other...
14 Dec
China's new domestically produced passenger jet made its debut outside the mainland on Wednesday. The C919 made its maiden commercial flight in May and is key to Beijing's decades-long ambitions to compete...
13 Dec
China and Vietnam pledged to deepen ties during President Xi Jinping's first visit in six years. Xi met the leader of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, on the first day of his...
13 Dec
Singaporeans bid farewell to a two-year-old panda cub on Wednesday as authorities prepared to send him to China where he will join the country's breeding program.  Le Le, the first giant panda to be...
13 Dec
The Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia erupted, spewing a column of ash 1,000 meters to the sky on Wednesday, according to the country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation. The volcano...
13 Dec
Japan's oldest person passed away at the age of 116 at a care facility in Osaka on Tuesday, officials said, offering their condolences for Ms. Fusa Tatsumi who lived through two world wars and multiple pandemics...
12 Dec
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Viet Nam on Tuesday for his first state visit in six years. During his visit, Xi will hold talks with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet...
12 Dec
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to fire several top ministers who are reportedly under investigation for alleged fraud, local media on Monday. Those to be axed, potentially as early as this week...
12 Dec
China's grain output rose by 1.3 percent year on year to a record high of 695.41 million tonnes in 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. This is the ninth consecutive...

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