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22-08-2017 14:47

Opinion // For Afghanistan, Trump should dust off Obama’s Syria plan (Adam Garrie)

22-08-2017 13:31

Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions violations. (Reuters)

22-08-2017 13:05

In a speech on Sunday, President Bashar al-Assad gave notice to those foreign powers who have pushed a regime change agenda that he expects them to abandon their residual links with rebel groups. (M.K. Bhadrakumar)

22-08-2017 12:55

Opinion // Radical Islam: we must talk about more than ISIS (M. Zuhdi Jasser)

22-08-2017 12:53

China installed 26 new commanders in the People’s Liberation Army’s 13 group armies that saw most of the previous commanders posted off to far away, unfamiliar regions. What's behind the shake up? (Zi Yang)

22-08-2017 12:27

Opinion // Europe keeps Sino-Indian border standoff at bay (Emanuele Scimia)

22-08-2017 12:05

Opinion // Stalking of women a norm across India (Amrita Mukherjee)

22-08-2017 11:51

Opinion // The thanks of a grateful world go with Steve Bannon (David P. Goldman, Spengler)

22-08-2017 11:34

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Monday three student activists jailed for their roles in 2014 pro-democracy protests were not political prisoners and unreasonable criticism of the city's judiciary could damage the rule of law. (Reuters)

22-08-2017 11:24

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) is looking into whether non-Muslim women in India are being persuaded to embrace Islam, lured into marriage and radicalized. (E Jaya Kumar)

22-08-2017 08:32

Not many years ago in Japan, the Korean peninsula and North Korea were considered America’s problem and even America’s fault. The complaint is heard a lot less these days. (Grant Newsham)

22-08-2017 07:56

The morning roundup of important economics, policy and market-moving stories from Chinese-language media on August 22 (Lin Wanxia and Zheng Xin)

22-08-2017 06:04

Ten sailors missing after US warship, tanker collide near Singapore; accident was second collision involving US Navy guided-missile carrier in two months (Fathin Ungku and David Brunnstrom)

21-08-2017 17:32

Vietnamese state planners say more than 50% of national power will be coal-fired by 2030, a big boost in the fossil fuel's use that will worsen pollution and undercut climate change goals. (Dan Southerland)

21-08-2017 16:37

Opinion // Successful firms recognize new reality of ‘brand universes’ (Marcus Loh)

21-08-2017 15:47

South Korean and US forces began annual military exercises on Monday amid tensions over North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in saying the drills were defensive. Pyongyang disagrees. (Asia Times and Reuters)

21-08-2017 15:37

Opinion // A Machiavellian plan to excise the Kim cancer from Asia (Tom Velk and Jade Xiao)

21-08-2017 15:30

It is now clear China and India's two-month-old military standoff on the Doklam plateau is not really about Beijing building a road in an area disputed between China and Bhutan. (Bertil Lintner)

21-08-2017 13:01

However the case of Howard Lam Tsz-kin – a veteran activist whose claims that he was abducted have been met with skepticism – plays out, Hong Kong's "pan-democratic" camp is truly on the rack. (Kent Ewing)

21-08-2017 12:37

Opinion // Modi’s Independence Day address was disappointing (Kadayam Subramanian)

21-08-2017 12:25

Chinese paper on censorship: Don’t like our rules? Then leave (Reuters)

21-08-2017 12:05

The latest sentences have dealt a blow to the youth-led push for universal suffrage in Hong Kong and have prompted accusations of political interference. (Reuters and Agence France-Presse)

21-08-2017 11:49

Opinion // Superstition still guides women’s health in China (Carly O'Connell)

21-08-2017 09:56

Ten US Navy sailors are missing and five are injured after the USS John S. McCain destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore, the second such incident in two months after seven sailors were killed when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship south of Japan in June. (Washington Post)

21-08-2017 09:45

South Korea's new antitrust chief said he has been in talks with the autos-to-steel conglomerate Hyundai Motor Group about overhauling its complex ownership structure, which critics say gives too much power to its controlling family at the expense of shareholders. (Soyoung Kim and Hyunjoo Jin)

21-08-2017 07:57

The morning roundup of important economics, policy and market-moving stories from Chinese-language media on August 21 (Lin Wanxia and Zheng Xin)

21-08-2017 03:04

Trump's infrastructure plans facing an uphill battle; and four other big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders this week (Reuters)

20-08-2017 18:05

Mourners at the funeral of a man shot dead in a police drug sting protested his innocence, while the country's two most influential Catholic bishops spoke against the latest deaths (Reuters)

20-08-2017 17:45

Iranian lawmakers voted on Sunday to keep two of President Hassan Rouhani's key members of cabinet in their posts. (Reuters)

20-08-2017 14:57

Opinion // Could the road from Charlottesville lead America toward civil war? (Sabena Siddiqui)

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