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BEIJING — One burning issue dominates as the 2024 session of China‘s legislature gets underway this week: the economy. The National People’s Congress annual meeting, which opens Tuesday,…
Read more What to watch for as China’s major political meeting of the year gets underwayPRAGUE — František Janouch, a Czech nuclear physicist who set up a foundation in Sweden while in exile to support the dissident movement in his communist homeland at…
Read more František Janouch, a Czech nuclear physicist who supported dissidents from Sweden, dies at age 92PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia…
Read more Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plan to return looted antiquitiesBEIJING — China on Friday defended controversial bounties offered for the capture of Hong Kong dissidents who have fled abroad that have been heavily criticized by foreign governments…
Read more China defends bounties offered for Hong Kong dissidents abroadSANTIAGO, Chile — In Chile, leftists were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped. In Argentina, many were “disappeared” by members of the brutal…
Read more Kissinger's unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin AmericaAccording to a recent survey by Change Research, the biggest dating red flag for men is when someone identifies as a communist. A whopping 64% said this political…
Read more 64% of men say this is their No. 1 dating red flag, according to recent surveyBEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal with together, remarks that come against the…
Read more China’s Xi urges countries unite in tackling AI challengesHONG KONG — The exodus of tens of thousands of professionals from Hong Kong triggered by a crackdown on its civil liberties is being offset by new arrivals:…
Read more Beijing’s crackdown fails to dim Hong Kong’s luster, as talent scheme lures ChineseWARSAW, Poland — The majority of voters in Poland’s general election supported opposition parties that promised to reverse democratic backsliding and repair the nation’s relationship with allies, including…
Read more Poles vote in huge numbers for the centrist opposition after 8 years of nationalist ruleHANOI — HANOI (AP) — President Joe Biden goes Sunday to a Vietnam that’s looking to dramatically ramp up trade with the United States — a sign of…
Read more Biden finds a new friend in Vietnam as American CEOs look for alternatives to Chinese factoriesSANTIAGO, Chile — Yelena Monroy was 3 years old when she was imprisoned for more than a year along with her younger sister and her mother, a socialist…
Read more Child victims are the forgotten voices of Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973 to 1990Aspiring Taiwanese independent presidential candidate Terry Gou has resigned from the board of Foxconn, the Apple supplier he founded nearly a half-century ago ByABC News September 3, 2023,…
Read more Aspiring Taiwan presidential candidate Terry Gou resigns from board of Apple supplier FoxconnAspiring Taiwanese independent presidential candidate Terry Gou has resigned from the board of Foxconn, the Apple supplier he founded nearly a half-century ago ByThe Associated Press September 3,…
Read more Aspiring Taiwan presidential candidate Terry Gou resigns from board of Apple supplier FoxconnThe Albanian government says the country’s first post-communist prime minister is in hospital fighting for his life ByLLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press FILE – Then Albanian prime minister and…
Read more Albania’s first post-communist prime minister Fatos Nano is fighting for his life in the hospitalBEIJING — The top Chinese official in charge of economic relations with Washington told Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Tuesday he was ready to “make new positive efforts”…
Read more Top Chinese official tells the US commerce secretary he’s ready to improve cooperationPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war…
Read more Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian schoolBEIJING — The Fangbiaogan Real Estate Agency in the southern city of Nanning is still waiting for China’s post-COVID rebound. Home sales are 30-40% below last year’s depressed…
Read more Skepticism prevails as Chinese leaders promise to back private businesses to spur slowing economyBEIJING — China removed its sometimes outspoken foreign minister on Tuesday and replaced him with his predecessor at an unusually scheduled meeting, a move that has fueled rumors…
Read more China removes its outspoken foreign minister during a bumpy time in relations with the USPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades, during which the opposition has been stifled and the country has grown…
Read more Cambodian leader’s son, a West Point grad, set to take reins of power — but will he bring change?PARIS — Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech…
Read more Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
