Hong Kong police arrest key protesters, clear site
By KELVIN CHAN Police arrested key student leaders as they cleared the most volatile of Hong Kong’s three pro-democracy protest camps on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the 2-month-old movement…
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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…
Tiananmen leader denied in bid to return to China
FILE – In this June 4, 2012 file photo, former student leader in the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Wu’er Kaixi, speaks to media before addressing hundreds of people attending a…
NY CASE SHEDS LIGHT ON METH COOKING IN NORTH KOREA
By TOM HAYS In this Nov. 21, 2013 courtroom art, five men appear in a New York City courtroom accused of plotting to smuggle 100 kilograms of highly potent methamphetamine…
Markets remain lackluster in run up to Fed minutes
By TOBY STERLING An invested looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013 in Shanghai, China. World stocks were muted Tuesday as a…
Fed stimulus, China reform promises buoy stocks
By SARAH DiLORENZO A board above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Standard & Poor’s 500 index above 1,800, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. The DJIA…
Stocks boosted as incoming Fed head backs stimulus
By EILEEN NG People walk outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Asian stock markets bounced higher Thursday after prepared testimony for the confirmation hearing of incoming…
Markets unmoved by Chinese policy promises
By PAN PYLAS People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Asian stock markets mostly traded higher Tuesday after the Dow…