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BANGKOK — Thais are already familiar with French perfumes, cosmetics, wine, macaron, and handbags. Now, French vendors are hoping to import yet more luxuries to lure Thai customers, like makeup for the dead, body bags, morgue beds, and more.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The universe is looking younger every day, it seems.

BEIJING (Xinhua) — Chinese and U.S. economic and trade teams have maintained effective communication and the working groups of the two sides will meet soon to conduct consultations and make full preparations for the next high-level economic and trade consultation between the two sides, an official said Thursday.

BERLIN (Xinhua) — Chinese Ambassador to Germany Wu Ken condemned here on Wednesday some German politicians' move of treating Hong Kong separatist Joshua Wong Chi-fung as their guest, and urged them to stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A newly announced “Saturday Night Live” cast member posted a video last year in which he used a racial slur for Chinese people and derided Asians trying to learn English.

BOSTON (AP) — Training surgeons is as easy as training dolphins or dogs.

BEIJING (Xinhua) — China's border check agencies are expected to see an average of 1.93 million inbound and outbound trips made by Chinese and foreign tourists per day during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the National Immigration Administration said Thursday.

UBON RATCHATHANI — Netizens are pouring their support to a northeastern province, more than half of whose area is under floodwaters as of Thursday. 

BANGKOK — A controversial painting depicting Buddha as a Japanese superhero was auctioned off for 600,000 baht on Thursday, despite legal threats from a group of Buddhist fanatics.

SHENYANG, China (Xinhua) — When you lie on the beach, soaking up the sunshine and relishing warm breeze, there is at least a 25-percent...