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Sun, November 1, 2020 | 07:11

China Golden Week holiday pumps up tourism, boon to economy

China Golden Week holiday pumps up tourism, boon to economy

Some 637 million Chinese traveled inside their country during the recent eight-day Golden Week holiday, spending tens of billions of dollars at a time when China hopes to get consumers to spend more and perk up the economy.

2020-10-09 19:46

Surfer vanishes in suspected shark attack in Australia

Surfer vanishes in suspected shark attack in Australia

A surfer vanished in a suspected shark attack on Friday off the Australian southwest coast, police said. A surfboard was found at Wylie Bay near the town of Esperance and a search was underway for the man who had been riding it, a police statement. Ambulance officers reported the suspected shark attack at Kelp Beds Beach late Friday morning.

2020-10-09 15:54

Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict draws in fighters from Mideast

Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict draws in fighters from Mideast

For the past two weeks, Raffi Ghazarian has been glued to the TV at home and at work watching news about the fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. If it goes on, the 50-year-old Lebanese of Armenian descent says he's ready to leave everything and volunteer to defend his ancestral land.

2020-10-09 15:48

Putin invites Armenia, Azerbaijan foreign ministers for peace talks

Thailand delays hosting of first foreign tourists since April

Thailand is pushing back plans to receive its first batch of foreign tourists due to administrative issues, a senior official said on Thursday, adding to uncertainty about when it will welcome back visitors vital to its economy.

2020-10-08 19:59

Hong Kong teacher struck off for 'pro-independence' classes

Hong Kong teacher struck off for 'pro-independence' classes

A Hong Kong teacher has been struck off for allegedly promoting the city's independence in class, in what the government on Tuesday hailed as a blow against "black sheep" working in the education system.

2020-10-06 20:41

Singapore PM in court for defamation suit against blogger

Singapore PM in court for defamation suit against blogger

Singapore's prime minister arrived at court on Tuesday for a case in which he is suing a blogger for sharing an online article linking him to Malaysia's 1MBD state fund money-laundering scandal. As the world's best-paid political leader and the head of a government that has pledged zero tolerance on corruption, Lee Hsien Loong, 68, is no stranger to protecting his integrity v...

2020-10-06 14:17

Pompeo hails Japan PM Suga 'force for good' during visit to boost solidarity against China

Pompeo hails Japan PM Suga 'force for good' during visit to boost solidarity against China

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday hailed new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as a "force for good" and said he believes Suga will work to strengthen the relationship between Washington and Tokyo. Speaking at start of his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Tokyo, Pompeo said he agreed with Suga that a free and open Indo-Pacific was ...

2020-10-06 14:08

Pompeo meets 'Quad' partners in Tokyo with eyes on China

Pompeo meets 'Quad' partners in Tokyo with eyes on China

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold talks on Tuesday with counterparts from Australia, India and Japan in Tokyo, seeking to present a united front against China.

2020-10-06 11:49

Death toll rises as Azerbaijan and Armenia say civilian areas are under fire

Death toll rises as Azerbaijan and Armenia say civilian areas are under fire

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law ...

2020-10-06 10:40

Taiwan hopes Trump gets better so he can keep resisting China

Taiwan hopes Trump gets better so he can keep resisting China

Taiwan hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump can get better from the coronavirus soon so that he can continue to lead the free world in resisting China's "outrages", the speaker of the island's parliament said on Monday. Democratic Taiwan has come under increasingly severe military pressure from China, which claims the island as its sovereign territory, with China's air forc...

2020-10-05 14:22

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