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Hong Kong quarantined hundreds of hotel guests and workers Friday after a tourist from Mexico tested positive for swine flu, Asia’s first confirmed case of the disease. With memories of 2003’s deadly SARS outbreak still fresh, the government moved quickly
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Oil prices lingered above $54 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as growing investor optimism about the global economy left crude poised to break out of a month-long trading...
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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Mexican officials angry about China’s decision to quarantine more than 70 Mexicans over swine flu fears sent a plane Monday to the communist country to bring its...
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President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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A Taiwanese business tycoon has criticized U.S. investor Warren Buffett’s decision to invest in a Chinese battery and car maker facing a lawsuit accusing it of...
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Two janitors were arrested in the attempted sabotage of the helicopter of an Indian billionaire, a senior police official said Monday, describing the tampering as part...
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Embattled insurer American International Group Inc. is close to selling its Japanese headquarters for around $1 billion to help pay off its debt to Washington, The Wall...
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North Korea took a fresh swipe at President Barack Obama on Monday, saying his administration is no different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
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Clashes in a northwestern region covered by an increasingly fragile peace pact killed seven militants and one soldier Monday, authorities said, adding to strains on an...
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Robust investment backed by stimulus spending will likely help China’s economy to expand 7 percent in the second quarter, showing the economy may be rebounding...
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China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected accusations by President Barack Obama that China is among nations that regularly harass and detain journalists.
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Asian stock markets soared Monday, led by gains of 5 percent or more in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and India, amid upbeat economic signs from China and the United...
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A South Korean navy warship has rescued a North Korean freighter by driving away a pirate ship chasing it off Somalia.
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Sri Lankan forces battled Tamil Tiger insurgents from three sides Monday, pushing deeper into rebel-held territory in its bid to end this island nation’s...
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President Hamid Karzai registered as a candidate for Afghanistan’s August presidential election on Monday and selected a powerful warlord and former top political...
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Taliban militants attacked an army convoy Monday in a northwestern region covered by an increasingly fragile peace pact, killing one soldier and dealing another blow to...
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Before swine flu emptied restaurants and cinemas and made surgical masks a common sight in Mexico, similar scenes unfolded in Asia earlier this decade as it dealt with...
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A Chinese doctor who exposed the extent of Beijing’s SARS outbreak has asked the government to apologize for detaining him after he criticized the 1989 crackdown...
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