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Tracking Huawei: a years-long US espionage probe
Reuters, Published on 07/03/2019
» The surprise arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a central figure in a trade war between two economic superpowers.
Cambodia's Sihanoukville morphs into 'Macau 2'
Reuters, Published on 07/12/2017
» SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia: Between Sihanoukville's beaches and its multiplying casinos, "Lao Qi" and Bun Saroeun run restaurants barely a hundred dusty metres apart. But their fortunes could not be more different.
In Kim Jong Un's summer palace, fun meets guns
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2017
» SEOUL: In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to tourism, and a good place to test missiles.
'Flying taxi' startup Lilium raises $90m from Tencent, others
Business, Reuters, Published on 06/09/2017
» FRANKFURT: Lilium, a German start-up with Silicon Valley-scale ambitions to develop a five-passenger "flying taxi", has raised a second, $90 million round of financing from top tech investors, making it one of the best-funded electric aircraft projects to date.
N.Korea 'ready to strike' US aircraft carrier
Reuters, Published on 24/04/2017
» SEOUL - North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a US aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a US carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.
Malaysia stops, inspects North Korean ship
Reuters, Published on 30/03/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia briefly prevented a North Korean ship carrying coal from entering its port at Penang because of a suspected breach of United Nations sanctions, a port worker and Malaysian maritime officials said Wednesday
Airport murder not typical N. Korean assassination
Reuters, Published on 24/02/2017
» SEOUL - The bizarre assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother marks a departure from the isolated country's repertoire of overseas operations, according to experts on its opaque ruling structures.
Japanese hotels offer tight space for a tight budget
Business, Reuters, Published on 09/06/2015
» TOKYO: With Japan's tourist numbers and hotel prices on the rise thanks to a weaker yen, developers are getting creative with a new niche line in stylish but cheap accommodation in bunks, cabins and pods of all shapes and sizes.