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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.
'Khon' rises from near extinction in Cambodia
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2019
» PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK: Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge's "Killing Fields" regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to a new generation.
Make a meal of mealworms, Hong Kong startup says
Reuters, Published on 27/11/2018
» HONG KONG: Have some pasta, prepared with mealworms raised in your own home.
Facebook losing the war on Myanmar hate speech
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2018
» YANGON: In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told US senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted in Myanmar. The situation was dire.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Scientists say cost of sucking carbon from thin air could tumble
Reuters, Published on 08/06/2018
» OSLO: High costs of extracting greenhouse gases from thin air could tumble with new technologies that can help to combat climate change, scientists said on Thursday.
How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 12/04/2018
» KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: Rehana Khatun dreamed her husband came home. He appeared without warning in their village in western Myanmar, outside their handsome wooden house shaded by mango trees. "He didn't say anything," she said. "He was only there for a few seconds, and then he was gone." Then Rehana Khatun woke up.
Mixed Martial Arts gets in the ring with Muay Thai
Reuters, Published on 27/03/2018
» As someone who has practiced Thai boxing (Muay Thai) for 30 years, Chatri Sityodtong knows very well the challenges he faces as he tries to bring his version of Mixed Martial Arts to the Southeast Asian nation.
US urges China to cut trade by $100 billion
Reuters, Published on 16/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is pressing China to cut its trade surplus with the United States by $100 billion, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday, clarifying a tweet last week from President Donald Trump.
Against stereotype, many US teens embrace gun culture
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2018
» SUNRISE, Florida: Reanna Frauens, a lifelong gun enthusiast and a proud member of the Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club, is about the same age as many of the 17 victims killed by a shooter with an assault rifle at a Florida high school about a dozen miles away.