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October 26, 2018 2:20 PM

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's Beijing visit underscores warming China-Japan ties

The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today held a second meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang during the first formal visit to Beijing by a Japanese leader in nearly seven years that heralds warming ties following years of acrimony.<br />''  <...

October 26, 2018 2:03 PM

Toll rises to 8 in the China coal mine accident

 <br />''The toll from a coal mine accident in eastern China rose to 8 as the bodies of five more miners were retrieved, local authorities said today. The accident happened on Saturday after a rock burst ripped through a coal mine of the Longyun Coal Mining Compa...

October 26, 2018 11:24 AM

Philippine Island once called 'Cesspool' reopens to visitors

<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In </span>Philippines<span style="font-size: 10pt;">, boatloads of tourists sailed to tiny Boracay island today, the first-day Philippine officials reopened the resort to v...

October 26, 2018 11:07 AM

Knife-wielding woman hurts 14 children in China kindergarten

In China, 14 children have been injured in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant at a kindergarten in the western city of Chongqing today morning. Chinese police report that the assault at the Xinshiji Kindergarten was carried out by a 39-year-old woman.<br />'' <br ...

October 26, 2018 8:21 AM

UN chief Antonio Guterres decries failure to bring women into peacemaking

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the failure to bring women into peacemaking, pointing to statistics showing that between 1990 and 2017, women constituted only 8 per cent of negotiators and 5 per cent of witnesses and signatories to major peace processes.<br />''...

October 26, 2018 7:16 AM

Google fired 48 employees for sexual harassment in past two years

Google has said that it fired 48 employees in the past two years, including 13 senior executives, as a result of sexual harassment allegations, citing "an increasingly hard line" on inappropriate conduct.<br />''   <b...

October 25, 2018 4:25 PM

Japan PM Shinzo Abe reaches China

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reached China today. It is the first visit to China by a Japanese prime minister, since relations betwee...

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