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Yahoo Japan, Line to merge business
Associated Press, Published on 18/11/2019
» TOKYO: Z Holdings Corp, which owns SoftBank Corp that operates Yahoo Japan, and Naver Corp of South Korea, which owns a majority stake in Line, said Monday they are aiming for a final agreement by next month.
Not just Bali: Indonesia to develop more tourism sites
Associated Press, Published on 13/08/2019
» YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on grey stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking mobile phones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
Border deal wins nod, Trump to declare emergency
Associated Press, Published on 15/02/2019
» WASHINGTON: Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation was ignited _ this time over President Donald Trump's plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to syphon billions from other federal coffers for his wall on the Mexican boundary.
Death toll from Indonesian floods, landslides rises to 30
Associated Press, Published on 24/01/2019
» MAKASSAR, Indonesia: Floods and landslides in a central Indonesian province hit by torrential rains this week have killed 30 people and left more than two dozen missing, the national disaster agency said Thursday.
Lombok lifted 25cm by quake
Associated Press, Published on 11/08/2018
» TANJUNG, Indonesia: Scientists say the powerful Indonesian earthquake that killed nearly 400 people lifted the island it struck by as much as 25 centimetres.
US orders 200,000 'special protection' Salvadorans to leave
Associated Press, Published on 09/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the country or face deportation, officials said Monday.
Dictionary.com chooses 'complicit' as word of the year
Associated Press, Published on 27/11/2017
» NEW YORK: Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word "complicit" as Dictionary.com's word of the year for 2017.
APEC talks end with 'very good outcome' despite wrangling
Associated Press, Published on 09/11/2017
» DANANG, Vietnam: Ministers from Asia-Pacific countries ended their meeting on Thursday with a "very good outcome", despite differing views on trade and protectionism, Vietnamese Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh told a news conference.
Some villages in Vietnam still isolated by floods
Associated Press, Published on 16/10/2017
» HANOI: Some villages in Vietnam are still isolated by landslides and destroyed bridges after a tropical depression last week that has become one of the country's worst natural disasters in years.
Trump tweet, NFL response puts politics into US football
Associated Press, Published on 25/09/2017
» The owners of the Baltimore Ravens, the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and other teams on Sunday joined a chorus of NFL executives criticising President Donald Trump's suggestion that they fire players who kneel for the national anthem.