Since China began its market reforms in the late 1970s, it has lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty, slashing the rate from…
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Mexico held an earthquake drill two hours before its latest deadly quake hit
At 11am local time Tuesday morning, Mexico held a national public earthquake drill, with more than 7 million people participating (link in Spanish). Two hours…
HEART OF THE CRISIS
More than half the refugees fleeing Myanmar are children
The number of people who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh over the last three weeks has now crossed 400,000, according to the United Nations. If…
NOT AGAIN
North Korea sends another missile over Japan, putting more heat on China
A day after North Korea threatened to sink Japan into the sea, Pyongyang today (Sept. 15) sent another missile over Japan, South Korea’s military and…
UNDONE DEAL
A fund linked to the tech deal Trump just vetoed is an investor in China’s national security
It may not have been a surprise, but president Donald Trump’s veto of a US semiconductor firm’s sale of itself to a China-funded private-equity firm…
EXODUS
Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries, has taken in more than half a million Rohingya refugees
Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest nations, has seen a massive influx of Rohingya people fleeing brutal violence in Myanmar in the last two weeks:…
ZONE DEFENSE
What China wants on North Korea
Less than two years after its founding on Sept. 9, 1948, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting a war in which tens of thousands of…
LEGACY OF SPIES
Master spy novelist John le Carré has thoughts on how Trump might fall
Master spy novelist John le Carré’s depictions of Cold War spy games carry such a strong whiff of inside knowledge that his books, to his…
UH-OH
North Korea “earthquake” was its most powerful nuclear test yet
This is a developing story, last updated on Sept 3 at 3:37am ET. North Korea said on Sunday (Sept. 3) that it has successfully conducted…
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Trump’s expected pick for ambassador to South Korea signals more pressure on China
Through North Korea’s increasingly provocative missile tests of recent months, and US president Donald Trump’s combative response, security experts have worried over the fact that…
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Vietnam is imprisoning female bloggers over their Facebook posts
When she was just 20, Tran Thi Nga, shown above, got a job as a live-in domestic worker in Taiwan through a broker, and then…
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China just buried a human rights activist the way the US buried Osama bin Laden
China buried human rights activist Liu Xiaobo July 15 the same way the United States buried terrorist Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11…
