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North and South Korea set bold goals
New York Times, Published on 28/04/2018
» SEOUL, South Korea: The leaders of North and South Korea agreed Friday to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War, which ravaged the peninsula from 1950 to 1953.
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.
Orphaned Myanmar elephants blanketed against cold
New York Times, Published on 25/12/2017
» When an unexpectedly cold front from China descended on parts of Southeast Asia this past week, people in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia bundled up in coats to stave off the region’s unusual weather. But what’s an elephant to do?
Trump declares opioid crisis a ‘health emergency’
New York Times, Published on 27/10/2017
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, taking long-anticipated action to address a rapidly escalating epidemic of drug use.
Joshua Wong, 2 others jailed for Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
New York Times, Published on 18/08/2017
» HONG KONG - Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong's democracy movement were sentenced Thursday to six to eight months in prison, a severe setback for the technically semi-autonomous Chinese city in its struggle for greater political freedom under Communist Party rule.
Apple capitulates to Chinese censorship
New York Times, Published on 30/07/2017
» HONG KONG - China appears to have received help Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple.
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.
Trump poised to pull US from Paris climate accord
New York Times, Published on 31/05/2017
» WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, three officials with knowledge of the decision said, making good on a campaign pledge but severely weakening the landmark 2015 climate change accord that committed nearly every nation to take action to curb the warming of the planet.
Winds of change rock age-old Myanmar lake
New York Times, Published on 29/05/2017
» LONTON, Myanmar -- Cresting a mountain pass on a freshly bulldozed road, Indawgyi Lake and its valley appear below, pastoral and calm.