Venezuela says U.S. revoked transnational oil, gas company licenses
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States has revoked several transnational oil and gas companies' licenses to...
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US sanctions six Chinese and Hong Kong officials for rights abuses
WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday sanctioned six senior Chinese and Hong Kong officials for "transnational repression" and actions...
Tokyo hospital opens city’s first ‘baby hatch’
A Tokyo hospital on Monday became the capital's first medical institution to offer a system allowing the safe, anonymous drop-off...
Trump’s tariff threat looms over global trade as deadline nears: ‘cloud of uncertainty’
The clock is ticking down to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” when the US president has threatened to unleash a wide...
Turkey holds the key to solving multiple global crises
While Turkey’s government is struggling to deal with mass protests at home (after Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was imprisoned), in...
The Unbearable Memory of the Khmer Rouge – The Diplomat
Magazine April 17, 1975 – the day Phnom Penh fell – can perhaps never be fully reappropriated because of the...
Myanmar declares week of mourning as earthquake toll passes 2,000, hopes fade for survivors
Indian rescuers carry a dead body at U Hla Thein Buddhist monastery that collapsed in Friday’s earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar,...
Tourists and locals enjoy ‘ephemeral’ Tokyo cherry blossoms
TOKYO - Tourists and Japanese locals marvelled at Tokyo’s cherry trees on March 31 at the peak of the annual...
Fuji TV bears heavy responsibility over Nakai’s ‘sexual violence’: panel
A third-party panel that investigated a series of scandals involving Fuji TV and former TV star Masahiro Nakai concluded that...
Lao Airlines cruising to first C909 – a milestone for the China-made aircraft
Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, sharing a border with China and four other nations, expects to see its flagship airline...
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