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.
Beijing reopens restaurants as new COVID-19 cases drop
BEIJING (AP) — Diners returned to restaurants in most of Beijing for the first time in more than a month on June 6 as authorities further eased pandemic-related restrictions after […]
Police patrol Hong Kong park to enforce Tiananmen vigil ban
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Heavy police force patrolled Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on June 4 after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration […]
For Japan’s star poet Tanikawa, it’s fun, not work, at 90
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa used to think poems descended like an inspiration from the heavens. As he grew older—he is now 9—Tanikawa sees poems […]
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