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Ghosn flirted with Hollywood, then delivered a plot twist
New York Times, Published on 03/01/2020
» TOKYO: Carlos Ghosn, the fallen head of the Nissan-Renault auto alliance, didn’t know much about making movies, but he seemed willing to learn.
Doomed jets lacked 2 features Boeing sold as extras
New York Times, Published on 21/03/2019
» As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits.
14m visitors to US face social-media screening
New York Times, Published on 31/03/2018
» Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States -- an estimated 14.7 million people a year -- will be asked to submit their social-media usernames for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued Friday.
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.
Trump heads to Asia with ambitious agenda
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2017
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump departs on his first trip to Asia on Friday weakened and scandal-scarred, ready to face off against newly empowered Chinese and Japanese leaders in a region increasingly determined to set its course without American direction.
Beijing: US apologised for confusing China with Taiwan
New York Times, Published on 10/07/2017
» HONG KONG - A Chinese official said Monday that the United States had apologised for a White House statement that misidentified China's leader, Xi Jinping, as president of the Republic of China -- the formal name for Taiwan.
Trump presses Xi on ‘growing threat’ of North Korea
New York Times, Published on 03/07/2017
» President Donald Trump spoke with President Xi Jinping of China on Monday to appeal for his help with what he called the “growing threat” posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the White House said.
Train around Yangon: Old, slow, and beats traffic
New York Times, Published on 13/06/2017
» YANGON, Myanmar -- To ride Yangon’s charmingly decrepit Circle Line train is to ride through history.
Take a load off. The robots that fold laundry are coming
New York Times, Published on 26/05/2017
» New York: Cars can now drive themselves. Mobile phones talk to us. How long will it be until the dreams of every college student and overworked parent come true — and laundry can fold itself?
US aircraft carrier not yet near North Korea
New York Times, Published on 19/04/2017
» WASHINGTON - A week after the White House declared a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier was being re-routed from Singapore to the Sea of Japan, near North Korea, it still has not arrived there.