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Ghosn leaves Japan 'to escape injustice'
Associated Press, Published on 31/12/2019
» TOKYO: Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn said Tuesday from Lebanon he was not fleeing justice but instead left Japan to avoid "injustice and political persecution" over financial misconduct allegations during his tenure leading the automaker.
China announces tariff cuts, more competition
Associated Press, Published on 23/12/2019
» BEIJING: China said Monday it will reduce tariffs Jan 1 on more than 850 foreign products including frozen pork, asthma medications and some high-tech components to spur economic development.
Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Huge Thai meth haul found
News, Associated Press, Published on 07/09/2019
» WELLINGTON: New Zealand authorities say they found about half a tonne of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of 60 electric motors from Thailand.
Half-tonne of meth found in electric motors imported from Thailand
Associated Press, Published on 06/09/2019
» WELLINGTON: New Zealand authorities say they found about half a tonne of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of 60 electric motors from Thailand.
India's tiger population has grown to 'nearly 3,000'
Associated Press, Published on 29/07/2019
» NEW DELHI: India's wild tiger population has grown to nearly 3,000, making the country one of the safest habitats for the endangered animals, the government has announced.
Musk faces trial for 'pedo' insult of diver
Associated Press, Published on 11/05/2019
» LOS ANGELES: Tesla CEO Elon Musk will have to go to trial to defend himself for mocking a British diver as a paedophile in a verbal sparring match that unfolded last summer after the dramatic rescue of the Wild Boars football team from the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai.
'1,000 dead' in Mozambique cyclone
Associated Press, Published on 19/03/2019
» JOHANNESBURG: More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation's president said.
Elon Musk unveils his underground transport tunnel
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary, albeit bumpy, subterranean tube - the tech entrepreneur's answer to "soul-destroying traffic".
Death toll rises, flights resume in Japan quake
Associated Press, Published on 08/09/2018
» SAPPORO: Japanese rescue workers and troops searched on Saturday for the missing for a third straight day in a northern hamlet buried by landslides from a powerful earthquake. Power was restored to most households and international flights resumed to the main airport serving the Hokkaido region.