By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal has stretched into one of the least Catholic countries: Japan, where former students at a […]
China plans to land on Mars by 2020
By Didi Tang Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Work is proceeding quickly on China’s planned mission to land a rover on Mars by 2020, the chief administrator of the country’s […]
Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors finds falsified fuel mileage tests
TOKYO (AP) — Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the Japanese automaker tarnished by a massive recall cover-up 15 years ago, owned up to another scandal April 20, saying employees had intentionally falsified fuel mileage data for several vehicle models.
Judge rules against couple in China’s 1st same-sex case
By Gerry Shih Associated Press CHANGSHA, China (AP) — A judge ruled against a gay couple in China’s first same-sex marriage case that attracted several hundred supporters to the courthouse […]
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Museum faces closure threat
By Kelvin Chan and Annie Ho Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The world’s only museum chronicling the Chinese government’s brutal 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square […]
‘Quantico’ star Priyanka Chopra wins India award
NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has won global acclaim for her role as FBI agent Alex Parrish on ABC’s “Quantico,” received a prestigious award from India’s […]
Chinese women getting mixed social signals on beauty, roles
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese women are being taken on a roller-coaster ride by social media, getting bombarded on one side by extreme expectations about physical beauty, while getting support for female independence in a society where women who aren’t married by their late 20s are considered “leftovers.”
US to join quake relief effort in Japan; 48 dead, 3 missing
TOKYO (AP) — Searchers found a man’s body April 20 in a landslide-hit area in southern Japan, bringing the death toll to 48 from two powerful earthquakes last week. Three people remain missing.
World’s wild tiger count increases for the first time in a century
NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with some 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups said April 10.
Iran says Boeing officials will visit Tehran for talks soon
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said April 9 that the United States has allowed Boeing to have direct talks with Iranian airliners following reports that a Boeing delegation will visit […]
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