CHINA ANNOUNCES $1.6 BILLION AIR POLLUTION FUND
FILE – In this Dec. 6, 2013 file photo, people use escalators with skyscrapers, covered with haze in the background, in Shanghai, China. China’s Cabinet has announced that 10 billion…
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REPORT: ‘LUST, CAUTION’ ACTRESS IS VICTIM OF FRAUD
FILE – In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Chinese actress Tang Wei adjusts her hair to pose for photographers during the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival…
DIRECTOR ZHANG YIMOU FINED $1.2M FOR HAVING 3 KIDS
By DIDI TANG FILE – In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, Chinese director Zhang Yimou arrives to attend Daejong Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Zhang must pay…
BEIJING BUN SHOP GETS CHINA’S PRESIDENT AS DINER
Tourists from Guangdong province, who ordered similar food to what Chinese President Xi Jinping ate the day before, pose for photos at the Qing-Feng Steamed Dumpling Shop in Beijing, China,…
NEW JAPAN SECURITY PLAN FOC– USES ON ISLAND DISPUTE
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Japan’s upper house lawmaker Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Abe on security affairs, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 17,…
US TAKES AIM AT CHINA, UPS NAVAL AID TO SE ASIA
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. State Secretary John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in Hanoi Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. The United States…
NKOREAN OFFICIAL: PURGE WON’T HURT ECONOMIC POLICY
By ERIC TALMADGE Yun Yong Sok, a senior official in North Korea’s State Economic Development Committee, speaks inside a conference room in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.…
DILIGENT ASIAN STUDENTS DOMINATE GLOBAL EXAM
By DIDI TANG FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors’ success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate…