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Brands say Alibaba punished them for refusing exclusivity
Associated Press, Published on 23/04/2018
» SHANGHAI: It was looking like a banner year for business in China. The US clothing company was expecting a 20% jump in online sales on Alibaba's Tmall, thanks to the e-commerce giant's massive reach.
'Systematic slaughter': Rohingya mass graves confirmed
Associated Press, Published on 02/02/2018
» BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognised his friends only by the colours of their shorts.
North Korea 2017: Hope to hostility
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: In the first month of Donald Trump's presidency, an American scholar quietly met with North Korean officials and relayed a message: The new administration in Washington appreciated an extended halt in the North's nuclear and ballistic missile tests. It might just offer a ray of hope.
Selfies and surveillance: North Korea's new connectivity
Associated Press, Published on 10/11/2017
» PYONGYANG: Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
Irma devastates Caribbean, assaults southern US
Associated Press, Published on 07/09/2017
» SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Hurricane Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds Wednesday night, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands already devastated by the historic storm.
Big child webcam sex bust in Philippines
Associated Press, Published on 09/05/2017
» MABALACAT, Philippines -- The suspected paedophile could see people banging on his front door through his security cameras. Were they neighbours? Cops?
Chemical weapons attack latest in litany of Syria atrocities
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2017
» BEIRUT - With its missile strike on Shayrat air base in central Syria, Washington signalled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Syria that drew international outrage last week.
More than 2,000 fishermen rescued
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the US from a slave island in eastern Indonesia.
Chinese banks a haven for web counterfeits
Associated Press, Published on 08/05/2015
» SHANGHAI — Kim Sbarcea knew exactly what she wanted. She typed “Tiffany Elsa Peretti mesh earrings” into Google and scrolled through impeccable photos of the delicate US$450 diamond-shaped earrings until she chanced upon a pair for -- deal of deals! -- $32.