Chinese Program Helps 6,000 Cataract Patients in Cambodia
KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia (Xinhua) — Sam Him, a 78-year-old farmer in Cambodia's Kampon Cham province, used to be in blindness because of cataracts in his eyes and could not even walk normally without the company of a family member.
HK Hospitals Cut Back Services as Workers Strike Over Coronavirus
BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong hospitals cut services Tuesday as medical workers were striking for a second day to demand its borders with mainland China be shut completely to ward off a virus that caused its first death in the semi-autonomous territory.
Hymns Through Masks: Christians Mark Another Pandemic Easter
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions.
From “Coal Capital” to Cultural Magnet, Historic City Gains New Life
DATONG, Shanxi, (Xinhua) - From a frontier land between agricultural communities and nomadic tribes to a major city in north China bearing the name...
South Korea Joins Thai-US Cobra Gold 2024’s Amphibious Exercise
CHONBURI - On March 1, 2024, Cobra Gold 2024’s amphibious exercise took place at Naval Training Field No. 15 in Hat Yao, Sattahip district,...
Fact Check: Trump Takes Credit He Hasn’t Earned
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday night about corporate job expansion and military cost-savings that actually took root under his predecessor and gave a one-sided account of the costs and benefits to the economy from immigration – ignoring the upside.
Mongolians Vote in Election Marred by Corruption Allegations
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolians will vote for a new president on Monday in a race pitting a horse salesman against a former judo star and a nationalist wanting to get more from the vast landlocked country's mineral wealth.
Man Accused of Stealing Mcdormand’s Oscar Trophy
LOS ANGELES — A man was arrested and is accused of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscars trophy after the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Los Angeles police said.
Diplomats Accuse Trump as Impeachment Hits Americans’ TVs
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Day One of extraordinary public impeachment hearings, the top American diplomat in Ukraine revealed new evidence that President Donald Trump was overheard asking about political “investigations” that he later demanded from Ukraine in exchange for military aid.
Despite Warnings, Trump Downplays Threat of Virus Returning
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday played down the possibility that the coronavirus could be worse this winter despite medical experts’ warnings that COVID-19 could combine with the flu to make a more complicated return to the United States.
