By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Digital censors quickly deleted a hashtag “the next five years” on June 27 as online discussion swirled in response to reported […]
Female referee at men’s World Cup wants the game to shine
Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita agrees with Pele or whoever it was decades ago that first described soccer as the “beautiful game.”
Olympic filmmaker needed 2 movies to cover Tokyo turmoil
Naomi Kawase, the director of the official film of the Tokyo Olympics, acknowledged she was taken aback at first about her assignment.
Duterte’s daughter takes oath as Philippine vice president
Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath on June 19 as vice president following a landslide electoral victory she clinched despite her father’s human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down.
China calls COVID ‘lab leak’ theory a lie after WHO report
BEIJING (AP) — China on June 10 attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after […]
Vietnam’s health minister arrested over COVID test gouging
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested as part of an expanding investigation into massive price gouging of COVID-19 tests, […]
Malaysia agrees to abolish mandatory death penalty
Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offenses, the country’s […]
Japanese man arrested in Indonesia over COVID relief fraud
By ANDI JATMIKO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities on Indonesia’s Sumatra island arrested a Japanese fugitive accused of helping steal $7.3 million intended for small […]
9 arrested after vicious assault on women in north China
Chinese authorities arrested nine people on suspicion of violently assaulting several women at a restaurant after surveillance footage of the attack sparked widespread outrage.
Survivor of abusive facility searches for lost Korean roots
The earliest photo Joo-Rei Mathieson has of herself was taken when she was about 4. Her head is shaved, her eyes cast downward. She has just arrived at perhaps the worst place a child could be sent in South Korea.
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