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ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 14, 2015

China navy carries out more drills in disputed South China Sea

China's navy has in recent days carried out more exercises in the disputed South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said, calling them routine drills.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 14, 2015

For China, climate deal is imperfect but huge step forward

For China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, the global climate accord reached in Paris marked a huge step toward greener growth that safeguards its sovereignty while falling short on funding for cleaner energy.

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 14, 2015

Typhoon Melor bearing down on central Philippines, threatening 4-meter storm surge

Authorities shut schools and suspended fishing and ferry services in the central Philippines on Monday as a category 3 typhoon barreled along the eastern seaboard, dumping heavy rain that could cause flooding and landslides.

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 12, 2015

China's security chief calls for better intelligence on terrorism

China needs to improve its intelligence-gathering abilities and intelligence sharing between different departments it if wants to better deal with the threat of terrorism, its domestic security chief said Friday in a rare admission of the problems faced.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Dec 12, 2015

Disappearances highlight Chinese ruling party's detention system

The baffling disappearance of Chinese executives in recent weeks has drawn attention to the ruling Communist Party's practice of holding people incommunicado either as targets of investigations themselves or to help with probes of others.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 12, 2015

Chinese military paper warns of lost wars and shame if reforms are thwarted

China's military risks losing wars and bringing millennia of shame upon itself if it drags its heels on reform, the army's official newspaper said on Friday, warning that modernization of the armed forces is behind that of advanced foreign counterparts.

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 10, 2015

Australian police charge five over plot to attack government buildings

Australian police have charged a 20-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy with conspiracy to attack government buildings after they were arrested during raids by counterterrorism police in Sydney on Thursday morning.

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 9, 2015

China weighs in with criticism of Trump's Muslim ban comments

China weighed in Wednesday with its own, albeit indirect, criticism of a proposal by leading U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Dec 9, 2015

Taiwan's likely first female president keeps quiet on possibility of independence from China

Taiwan's elections are just weeks away, with little clarity about how a likely win by a party that traditionally favors independence from China will be viewed in Beijing, which has threatened force to ensure the island never goes it alone.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Dec 9, 2015

U.S. Navy spy plane's Singapore deployment drawing close China scrutiny

China's military is paying "close attention" to an agreement between the United States and Singapore to deploy the U.S. P-8 Poseidon spy plane to the city state and hopes the move does not harm regional stability, the defense ministry said.

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 8, 2015

Wanted: cosmopolitan, foreign language-speaking Chinese graft busters to hunt suspects abroad

China's efforts to take its anti-graft campaign global are being crimped by a serious lack of officials familiar with foreign languages and laws, the country's top newspaper said Tuesday.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Dec 8, 2015

Muslims in Asia denounce Trump's call for U.S. ban

Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia on Tuesday denounced Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, dismissing the U.S. Republican presidential front-runner as a bigot who promoted violence.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.

The second life of Japan's net cafes

By Alex K.T. Martin

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