Topic: Asia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-12 09:05 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Taiwan, tariffs and the strait of Hormuz are on the meeting’s agenda for Beijing – but will the US president be forced to ask for help in ending his war with Iran?
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[2026-05-12 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a succinct snapshot of what I'm seeing and hearing from local businesses.
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[2026-05-12 09:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: About 3 in 10 South Korean students were classified as obese or overweight last year, reversing a four-year decline, government data showed.
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[2026-05-12 08:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday survived a five-year legal deadline to face criminal charges for allegedly lying to Congress about funding risky research in Wuhan, China — but he isn’t out of the woods, The Post has learned.
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[2026-05-12 08:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Submarine cables are wound at a factory belonging to NEC subsidiary OCC. (Photo by Kyoko Hariya)
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[2026-05-12 08:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Stock market mustn't be reduced to casino for speculators
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[2026-05-12 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: A resolute response to maritime attack: Those accountable should offer proper apology, compensation for strikes
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[2026-05-12 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Fired upon in Hormuz: Seoul must identify attacker, respond firmly, seek guarantees for safe passage
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[2026-05-12 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- With the countdown to the FIFA World Cup having reached 30 days in South Korea, fans will be waiting to see if their men's national football team will turn things around in time for the big tournament.
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[2026-05-12 07:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Business delegation spanning tech, aviation and finance joins Beijing trip as trade, investment and supply chains top agenda
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[2026-05-12 07:49 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Business delegation spanning tech, aviation and finance joins Beijing trip as trade, investment and supply chains top agenda
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[2026-05-12 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Wesley Edens, billionaire investor and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, replied to a 2022 LinkedIn message from Changli Sophia Luo, a China-born founder of a small Manhattan nonprofit that produced interview videos. Their exchanges turned personal; by June 2023 they met at her apartment and had sex, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing prosectuors.
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[2026-05-12 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In the new Netflix romantic dramedy My Royal Nemesis, a “vixen” from the Joseon era wakes up in modern-day Korea after thinking she was executed. She tries to remake her image with the help of a business shark who rebels from his chaebol family.
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[2026-05-12 06:44 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-12 06:36 UTC+10:00] [US-China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-12 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The mayor of Arcadia admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China in a federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.
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[2026-05-12 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: American business and policy circles seek trade certainty, AI dialogue and signs rivalry can be managed despite wider tensions
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[2026-05-12 06:23 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: American business and policy circles seek trade certainty, AI dialogue and signs rivalry can be managed despite wider tensions
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[2026-05-12 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Participants in JICA's training program will learn how to build and use satellites in Japan. (Photo by Dai Kuwamura)
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[2026-05-12 05:54 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: A high-powered delegation of American business leaders including Elon Musk will accompany US President Donald Trump on his visit to China this week, as the two leaders prepare to discuss the sensitive topic of arms sales to Taiwan.
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[2026-05-12 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: North Korea has updated its constitution to require a retaliatory nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated, according to a report.
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[2026-05-12 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that's raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping about whether the US leader could be open to dialing back support for the island democracy that Beijing views as its breakaway province.
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[2026-05-12 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: President Donald Trump is set to visit Beijing from May 13th to 15th for high-level talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with trade, Iran, and regional security expected to top the agenda.
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[2026-05-12 05:14 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Uma tarifa para a passagem pelo Estreito de Malaca seria um negócio lucrativo. "Se realmente dividíssemos as receitas de pedágio entre Indonésia, Malásia e Singapura, poderíamos arrecadar bastante", disse o ministro das Finanças da Indonésia, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, no fim de abril.
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[2026-05-12 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump says he will raise the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week.
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[2026-05-12 05:07 UTC+10:00] [Asia Times] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-12 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mazoe Ford is the ABC's Europe bureau chief, based in London. From 2020-2023 she was the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent, based in the Bangkok bureau, and covering a patch that stretched across Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. Mazoe joined the ABC in 2014 as a multiplatform reporter and producer in news and current affairs.
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[2026-05-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: May 12, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-05-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: When Trump last visited China in 2017, artificial intelligence was not yet the centre of global power. Now it is. (Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)
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[2026-05-12 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Top US executives, including Tesla's Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook, will accompany US President Donald Trump on his visit to China this week, a White House official said Monday.
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[2026-05-12 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is expected to bring a host of top business and technology industry executives on his trip to China this week.
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[2026-05-12 02:45 UTC+10:00] [Cook, Timothy D] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: President Trump will be joined in China this week by 17 chief executives, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook.
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[2026-05-12 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and several top CEOs will travel to China with President Trump as he lobbies President Xi Jinping to invest in America.
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[2026-05-12 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The PostMag Quick CrosswordTuesday, 12 Mayloading
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[2026-05-12 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Mini SudokuTuesday, 12 Mayloading
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[2026-05-12 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The SCMP Cryptic CrosswordTuesday, 12 Mayloading
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[2026-05-12 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Word SearchTuesday, 12 Mayloading
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[2026-05-12 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese condo developers are warning customers to prepare for delays but say no projects are behind schedule yet. (Photo by Shun Kato)
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[2026-05-12 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-12 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-05-12 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ryan Lochte, of the United States, bites his gold medal for the men’s 200 meters freestyle at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Shanghai, China, on July 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
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[2026-05-12 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump has invited executives from some of the biggest U.S. companies — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg — to join his trip to China this week, according to a White House official.
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[2026-05-12 01:43 UTC+10:00] [Asia Times] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-12 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call for a government-wide effort to identify risks in Japan's cyberdefenses. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)
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[2026-05-12 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Follow along with the latest updates on the Trump administration Friday, as President Trump departed China after a whirlwind high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping.
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[2026-05-12 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Taiwan’s main opposition parties have cleared special defence budget bill after months of fractious debate and infighting
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[2026-05-12 01:02 UTC+10:00] [American Institute in Taiwan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Taiwan’s main opposition parties have cleared special defence budget bill after months of fractious debate and infighting
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[2026-05-12 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: QUITO (AP) — El expresidente ecuatoriano Lenín Moreno y sus familiares cercanos afrontan desde el lunes un juicio por supuestamente recibir sobornos de la empresa china Sinohydro para la adjudicación del contrato de construcción de una de las mayores centrales hidroeléctricas del país.
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[2026-05-12 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: North Korea has earned an estimated $13 billion over the past three years by providing military assistance to Russia for its war against Ukraine, Nikkei Asia reported Monday, citing South Korean intelligence.
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[2026-05-12 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s shipyards secured a staggering 85 per cent of global orders in the first quarter, as demand for oil tankers surges amid the Iran war
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