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Myanmar migrants found guilty of killing British backpackers

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By Yves Dam Van and Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press KOH SAMUI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai court on Dec. 24 sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of […]

Japanese mountaineer Kei Taniguchi falls to her death from peak

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By Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Mountaineer Kei Taniguchi fell to her death while climbing this week in the snowy Daisetsuzan range in northern Japan’s Hokkaido. She was […]

Washington state sues firm, alleges tech support scam

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By Gene Johnson Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state sued one of the world’s largest independent tech support companies Wednesday, saying it routinely scams customers into buying software and […]

Former refugee thanks governor who welcomed him in 1975

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By Melissa Santos The News Tribune TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Vuong Nguyen has spent the past 40 years feeling indebted to former Washington Gov. Dan Evans. This year, the former […]

Samsung aid for sick workers comes with conditions, secrecy

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By Youkyung Lee AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung’s hopes of ending years of acrimony over whether its computer-chip factories caused cancer have hit a hitch: Some […]

Alibaba buys Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post

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By Kelvin Chan AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced that it’s buying Hong Kong’s leading English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, as […]

Prominent tycoon entangled in Chinese investigation

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By Joe McDonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — One of China’s top entrepreneurs, the chairman of the Fosun conglomerate that owns Club Med and other businesses in Europe and […]

No consensus about legality of Trump’s idea of Muslim ban

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By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme […]

In S. Korea, a town of Kims — and an unusual shared history

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By Hyung-Jim Kim Associated Press NONSAN, South Korea (AP) — Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants […]