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Japan passes bill allowing more foreign workers
Associated Press, Published on 08/12/2018
» TOKYO: Japanese lawmakers early Saturday approved government-proposed legislation allowing hundreds of thousands of foreign labourers to live and work in a country that has long resisted accepting outsiders.
North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim summit
Associated Press, Published on 17/05/2018
» SEOUL: North Korea on Wednesday threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and US President Donald Trump, saying it has no interest in a "one-sided" affair meant to pressure the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.
43 Cambodians convicted of felonies repatriated from US
Associated Press, Published on 05/04/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Forty-three Cambodians arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday after being deported from the United States under a law allowing the repatriation of immigrants who have committed felony crimes and have not become US citizens.
US Senate passes bill to reopen government
Associated Press, Published on 09/02/2018
» WASHINGTON: The Senate voted early Friday to reopen the government and pass a $400-billion budget deal, handing the measure off to the House for a pre-dawn debate where success is not assured.
'Trump country' faith unshaken
Associated Press, Published on 28/12/2017
» SANDY HOOK, Kentucky: The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.
Xi oversees Chinese military show of strength
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2017
» BEIJING - China's military has the "confidence and capability" to bolster the country's rise into a world power, President Xi Jinping said Sunday as he oversaw a large-scale military parade meant to show off the forces at his command to foreign and domestic audiences.
Rolling out welcome mat for the Chinese
Business, Associated Press, Published on 03/04/2017
» Hotels offering congee and other Chinese staples for room service. Casinos training staff on Chinese etiquette. Restaurants, tourist sights and shopping malls translating signs, menus and information booklets into Mandarin.
Sick or swim: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2015
» RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Sources say US upgrades Cuba in TIP report
Associated Press, Published on 17/07/2015
» WASHINGTON — The United States is set to remove Cuba from the list of worst offenders in failing to suppress human trafficking and forced labour, US sources said, removing a longstanding irritant between the former Cold War foes at a time of détente.
US cancels military exercises
Associated Press, Published on 25/05/2014
» WASHINGTON - The US Defense Department announced Saturday it had canceled ongoing military exercises with Thailand as a result of the military coup.