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An investor looks at the Chinese market index in 2017 at a brokerage in Beijing, China. Photo: Ng Han Guan / Associated Press

Asian Shares Mostly Fall on Weak Japan Data, US-China Trade

SINGAPORE — Asian markets are mostly lower on jitters over the simmering U.S. trade dispute with China.   Keeping Score Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.8 percent...

Actress Fan Bingbing Ordered to Pay Massive Tax Fine

BEIJING — Chinese tax authorities have ordered "X-Men" star Fan Bingbing and companies she represents to pay taxes and penalties totaling $130 million but would spare her from criminal prosecution, state media said Wednesday. 
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in 2012 in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

Canada Revokes Myanmar Leader’s Honorary Citizenship

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada's Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed...
Indonesian soldiers line up the bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims for a mass burial Tuesday in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Rifki / Associated Press

Desperation Grows as Death Toll Soars From Indonesia Quake

PALU, Indonesia — Trucks carrying food for desperate survivors of the earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island rolled in with a police escort Tuesday to...

‘A Scary Time’: Trump Taps Fears of #Metoo Run Amok

WASHINGTON — Men of America, be afraid. This could happen to you.

Cops Bust Tuk-Tuk Who Harassed, Kicked Grab Driver (Video)

CHIANG MAI — Police on Tuesday arrested a tuk-tuk driver filmed berating a GrabCar driver and kicking him in view of two foreign tourists in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sept. 4, 2017, at the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China.

Double Entry, Free Visa Mulled to Boost Falling Chinese Tourism

BANGKOK — The tourism minister said he was considering granting Chinese tourists a double entry visa into Thailand, hoping to increase their influx after...

Desperation Explodes to Anger as Indonesia Quake Toll Rises

PALU, Indonesia — Desperation exploded into anger four days after an earthquake and tsunami severely damaged parts of an Indonesian island, with residents Tuesday showing frustration at the pace of rescues, grabbing food from damaged stores and begging Indonesia's president to help them. The confirmed toll exceeded 1,200 dead with hundreds severely injured and still more trapped in debris.

Firebrand Ultra-Royalist Hiso Joins Democrat Party

BANGKOK — A young hiso known for vitriolic comments against political opponents and leading protests that prompted the 2014 coup officially joined the Democrat...
Tourists at the popular Maya bay on Phi Phi Leh in Krabi province. Photo: Rajavi Omanee / Associated Press

Maya Beach Closed Indefinitely to Tourists: Official

KRABI — Sorry, tourists, that famous Thai beach Leonardo DiCaprio once set foot on will now remain close indefinitely.

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