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Search and rescue efforts under way after quake strikes region’s north, with at least seven aftershocks recordedA magnitude-7 earthquake has hit Tibet, killing at least 16 people, injuring 54 and destroying hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media have said.Search and rescue efforts c…
Internet users in China are watching the protests in France with a mix of geopolitical cynicism, domestic pride and sadness at the damage to French landmarks. The protests started in September, when students and teachers in southeastern Paris rallied against deteriorating school conditions. Those specific grievances…
Champi is now the strongest storm of the year worldwide and expected to hit Taiwan, Japan and eastern mainland China.
China's Unitree Unveils "Terminator"-Like Humanoid In Chilling New Demo Video Chinese robotics leader Unitree unveiled its H2-X in a promotional video Wednesday morning, highlighting the terrifying capabilities of humanoid robots and raising questions about their eventual dual-use military applications. The H2-X foo…
Joseph Dunford stresses that AI must be used in accordance with law of conflict
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- The number of laying hens raised in South Korea incre...
More than 300 houses collapsed in the quake that struck late Thursday.
Chinese state media has called for a Japanese telecoms firm to apologise to China over a huge wildfire in neighbouring Mongolia, as diplomatic tensions run high between Beijing and Tokyo. The grassland fire broke out on October 8 and burned about 80 per cent of a nature reserve on the Mongolia-China border. Accordin…
Journalist from public broadcaster ABC and bystander jump in to save man from car engulfed by floodwaters.
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- Netflix has worked with over 80 South Korean producti...
South Korea sent a letter to the UN Security Council president Thursday calling on North Korea to take responsibility for a land mine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone last month and apologize, according to Seoul’s UN mission. Cha Ji-hoon, South Korea’s ambassador to the UN, sent the roughly two-page letter to his…
Chinese stocks rebounded on Friday after a sell-off drove the benchmark index into a bear market, as surging trading volumes in the nation’s biggest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pointed to possible state buying and major companies at the centre of the artificial intelligence trade sought to soothe investors. The CSI…
North Korean companies have been accused of setting up an international network of IT workers to evade sanctions.
All efforts need to be focused on search and rescue for survivors and treating the injured, President Xi Jinping instructed on Friday morning, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed 16 and injured 65 in China’s Tibet autonomous region overnight. “The disaster-hit area is located in a high-altitude region with cold …
The storm's forecast track shows it will pass just off northeastern Taiwan, turn north toward the Chinese coast and eventually move into southern Japan
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. This month’s edition, the fifth plenum, is attracting even more attention as the world’s second-largest economy takes on a more prominent role in global affairs. In th…
‘Bukangi’, who has drawn more than 1.6 million visitors, has returned to the canal again after being guided away to open waters in a short-lived rescue.
South Korea's art auction market lost more ground in the third quarter as sales fell despite a larger number of works on offer, according to a report released Thursday by the Seoul-based Korea Art Authentication and Appraisal Research Center. Combined sales at the country's seven major auction houses totaled 27.97 b…
Lu Yong, who has a slow-growing blood and bone marrow cancer and inspired the 2018 blockbuster Dying to Survive, has begun reducing his medication and hopes to stop taking it completely within three months. The acclaimed film is based on Lu’s experience. He has chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and helped patients acr…
According to the ruling, the 63-year-old former professor, Shinichi Sato, received a total of about ¥1.83 million worth of entertainment.
North Korea has planted an estimated 960,000 land mines in the Demilitarized Zone since 2024 as part of a campaign to fortify its border with South Korea, according to military data disclosed Friday. The South Korean military reported to the National Assembly that North Korea had laid approximately 960,000 mines alo…
Hundreds of houses have collapsed after a powerful quake struck Tibet, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more Read Full Article at RT.com
Chinese households are increasingly shifting assets from real estate and bank deposits into more lucrative investments at home and abroad, despite growing oversight, Moody’s Ratings said. A multi-year downturn in the Chinese property market and low interest rates are fuelling the demand for alternative investments, …
In author and computer engineer Liu Cixin’s science fiction hit The Three-Body Problem, three suns throw a doomed world into chaos. Chinese astronomers say they have found a real three-star system that is far better behaved. Using FAST, the world’s biggest single-dish radio telescope in southwestern China, the resea…
North Korea has planted an estimated 960,000 land mines along the inter-Korean border since 2024, according to multiple lawmakers Friday, a move seen as part of its border fortification work after Pyongyang declared a "two hostile states" policy toward Seoul. The South Korean military has reported the estimate to th…
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has planted an estimated 960,000 land min...
“Paradise Lost” (South Korea) Opened Oct. 21 Thriller Directed by Yeon Sang-ho When a boy who went missing years ago (Bae Hyun-sung) returns home, the mother (Kim Hyun-joo) begins to suspect something is off. “Clayface” (US) Opened Oct. 21 Horror/Thriller Directed by James Watkins A disfigured actor (Tom Rhys Harrie…
BEIJING — A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 46 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said.
In the West, industrial capitalism has devolved into finance capitalism. In China, Russia and Iran, it has evolved toward socialism. Finance capitalism is based on debt. It is essentially usury, and rather than increasing productivity, in prevents productivity by loading the real economy with debt. The only way to r…
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, was in line with the 2.1% forecast by economists polled by Reuters.
With Beijing keeping its rare earth refining technology, equipment and technicians at home, Washington is funding private refiners to develop new ways to process the strategic metals rather than copying Chinese methods. A senior US official told Asia Times that American refiners would rely on their own innovation to…
As of 2:25 a.m. on Friday, 11 of the injured were in serious condition while 21 sustained minor injuries, Xinhua reported.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, on Thursday denounced the...
The despair and anger of France's youth have spilled out onto the streets, expos...
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North Korea has continued to expand and renovate detention facilities across the country, while estimates of the number of prisoners held in its political prison camps vary widely, reflecting the limited information available about the secretive system.
Global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca on Thursday said it would start selling a cancer drug after coming under criticism for failing to bring it to the US market faster, prompting some Americans to fly to Shanghai to procure the potentially life-saving medicine first developed by China. In recent months, desperate …
A magnitude-7 earthquake has struck China's south-western region of Tibet, killing 16 people and injuring 32 others, state news agency Xinhua has reported.
The powerful earthquake has killed 16 people and wounded 32 so far, local medics reported.
Planned entity will not be public-private fund like ailing Cool Japan
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Diplomats from the EU’s 27 member states were pressured this week to lift sanctions on Yusha Group, a Chinese textiles manufacturer accused of selling sensitive European technology to Russian buyers. In exchange, Beijing has pledged that the company will refrain from shipping banned items to Russian military-linked …
At least 16 people were killed and 32 more injured when a strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck China’s western Tibet autonomous region late on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua said, citing local authorities. More than 300 houses collapsed in the earthquake, which struck on Thursday at 10.33pm. Officials were sti…
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan must turn pledges into return-delivering projects
Beijing targets capacity equivalent to 15 nuclear reactors by around 2030
WATCH: Strong winds, heavy rain in Japan's Ishigaki as super typhoon Champi nears
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, at 10.33 pm on Thursday 22 October, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has sent a letter to the president o...
Iran's secret supply of oil bound for China aboard its shadow fleet has finally dried up in the face of the US naval blockade on its ports, analysts said.
The U.S. has rejected China's claim that a U.S. warship trespassed its territorial waters and urged Beijing to halt its "aggressive" maneuvers in the South China Sea.
