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Workers protest at virus-hit China iPhone factory

Editorial Bureau November 23, 2022

Employees at the world’s biggest Apple iPhone factory have been beaten and detained in protests over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls, according to employees and videos posted on social media Wednesday. Videos on Chinese social media that said they were filmed at the factory in the

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Search effort intensifies after Indonesia quake killed 268

Editorial Bureau November 23, 2022

More rescuers and volunteers were deployed Wednesday in devastated areas on Indonesia main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 268 people. With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 1,000 people injured in the 5.6 magnitude quake, the death toll was […]

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Australia ratifies free trade deals with India and Britain

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2022

Australia Parliament passed bilateral free trade agreements with India and Britain on Tuesday, leaving those partner nations to bring the deals into force. The deals are crucial for Australia to diversify its exports from the troubled Chinese market to India and to Britain’s need to forge new bilateral trade relations since it left the European […]

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Fire kills 38 at industrial wholesaler in central China

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2022

A blazing fire has killed 38 people at a company dealing in chemicals and other industrial goods in central China’s Henan province. Two other people were injured, the local government in part of Anyang city said in a statement Tuesday. The fire was reported about 4:30 p.m. Monday and took firefighters about 3 1/2 hours […]

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Seoul: Kim’s daughter unveiled last week is his 2nd child

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2022

 The daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was recently seen in public for the first time at a missile launch site, is his second child, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Tuesday, as speculation swirled about his motives for bringing her to the attention of the outside world. On Saturday, North Korea said that […]

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Beijing sees record Covid cases as China outbreak spirals

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2022

China’s capital Beijing posted a record number of new Covid cases on Tuesday, with the city hunkering down under a tightening chokehold of restrictions that have sent schools online, closed many restaurants and forced employees to work from home. More than 28,000 new infections were reported nationwide — nearing the record high since the pandemic […]

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162 dead as Java quake topples homes, buildings, roads

Editorial Bureau November 22, 2022

 Rescuers searched for bodies and survivors Tuesday in the rubble of buildings that collapsed in an earthquake that killed at least 162 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java and injured hundreds more, overwhelming hospitals. Excavators, trucks and other heavy equipment sent overnight reached the hardest-hit city of Cianjur, south of Jakarta. The city, in […]

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Red Cross: Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter

Editorial Bureau November 21, 2022

 More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an interview, as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule. The religious group’s seizure of power in August 2021 sent the economy into a […]

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South China city locks down district in ‘zero-COVID’ fight

Editorial Bureau November 21, 2022

The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou locked down its largest district Monday as it tries to tamp down a major COVID-19 outbreak, suspending public transit and requiring residents to present a negative test if they want to leave their homes. The outbreak is testing China’s attempt to bring a more “targeted” approach to its zero-COVID […]

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Malaysia’s hung election crisis drags out as party dithers

Editorial Bureau November 21, 2022

Malaysia’s longest-ruling coalition said Monday it has not decided which bloc to support after weekend elections left neither with enough seats to form a government on its own, and it would ask the nation’s king to give it more time. The National Front’s announcement is set to prolong election uncertainty. King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah set a 2 […]