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ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2020

As loggers exploit virus, Cambodian forest protectors defy state ban

A Cambodian conservation group has warned that logging in the protected Prey Lang forest has ramped up during the coronavirus pandemic, vowing it would continue to monitor the destruction despite government threats of legal action to stop that work.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 1, 2020

After mass testing, Vietnam says coronavirus outbreak contained

Businessman Phan Quoc Viet was making his usual prayers at a pagoda in Tay Ninh, a province in southern Vietnam, when the government official's call came.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 30, 2020

In Japan's record stimulus, which cleared the Diet, what will be on offer?

The government is trying to shield the nation's economy with a gargantuan stimulus package financed by a supplementary budget bill that cleared the Diet Thursday.
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EDITORIALS
Apr 30, 2020

Extend support for foreign students in Japan

The COVID-19 outbreak in Japan has left hundreds of thousands of university students in a chaotic situation. Lectures that were supposed to start in April only recently began to be offered online.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 30, 2020

Myanmar military may be committing new war crimes, says U.N. envoy

The departing U.N. human rights envoy for Myanmar said its military is engaged in activities against rebels that may amount to "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Rakhine and Chin states, and that she was "enraged" and "saddened" by the situation in the country after six years in the role.
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CULTURE / Music
Apr 30, 2020

Taiko group Kodo makes a plea for donations amid the COVID-19 crisis

With Japanese drumming group Kodo forced to cancel this year's tour, the group has made an appeal for donations and equipment.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 29, 2020

Taiwan emerging from pandemic with a stronger hand against China

Very few governments around the world are likely to emerge from the pandemic in an even stronger position than before. Taiwan is one of them — and that’s not good for China.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2020

How China is attempting to prevent a second wave of infections

As the first major country to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, China is focused on avoiding a devastating second wave of infections as it returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic life.
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WORLD
Apr 28, 2020

Putin has a Syria ‘headache’ and the Kremlin’s blaming Assad

Russian President Vladimir Putin is letting his impatience show with Syrian ally Bashar Assad, who isn’t proving as grateful for being kept in power by Russian intervention in his country’s brutal civil war as the Kremlin leader needs him to be.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 26, 2020

Modest multilateralism is in America's interest, and China’s too

The crisis has highlighted the need for more global cooperation, but let's not get carried away.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Apr 26, 2020

‘Zest for life’ shapes over 30 years of work, play in Japan

Tokyo has its own Tintin! He may be older than Herge's beloved character, and his cheeks ruddier, but Fabrice Tilot shares the same spirit of adventure and zest for life as his fellow Belgian.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2020

Singapore races to build beds for COVID-19 patients as cases surge

Singapore is rapidly building bed space for coronavirus patients in cavernous exhibition halls and other temporary facilities as it faces a surge in cases, mainly among its large community of low-paid migrant workers.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 26, 2020

Countries and companies risk billions in race for coronavirus vaccine

Governments, charities and Big Pharma firms are making huge bets with extraordinarily low odds of success.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 25, 2020

Dangers of age segregation exposed

For most of America’s history, the idea that people over the age of 65 would voluntarily herd themselves into special communities built around their needs would have seemed absurd, even dystopian. Yet a largely voluntary movement toward segregating people by age has reached extreme levels in recent...
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2020

Trump’s personal diplomacy is dead, even if Kim isn’t

The U.S. tradition of putting personalities ahead of power politics seems to matter less and less.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2020

Coronavirus exposes dangers of age segregation

America's embrace of retirement communities and nursing homes has led to a unique vulnerability.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 24, 2020

Kim Jong Un has put North Korea in position to outlast his reign

Whatever the state of Kim Jong Un’s health, he has already put North Korea in its strongest position to resist U.S. pressure in decades.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 23, 2020

Navy ship outbreak threatens to spoil Taiwan's virus success story

A coronavirus outbreak on one of Taiwan’s navy ships has raised concerns that a re-infection could threaten one of the world’s success stories in the fight against the pandemic.
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WORLD / Society
Apr 23, 2020

In New York, homeless feel safer in subway stations than in shelters

The lights still scream for attention, but on this night Times Square has the feel of an abandoned Hollywood film set. Gone are the hordes of tourists shooting selfies with Elmo and Wonder Woman. Instead, a lone SUV glides by and a passenger's phone glows as she records the scene from the safety of the...
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2020

A funding freeze won’t fix the WHO’s China problem

The organization should be held responsible for its failings, but Donald Trump is wrong to cut off U.S. contributions.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 22, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine, championed by Trump for virus, may raise death risk

An old malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a "game changer" in the fight against the coronavirus provided no benefit and potentially higher risk of death for patients at U.S. veterans hospitals, according to an analysis that has been submitted for expert review.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 22, 2020

China’s coronavirus diplomacy has finally pushed Europe too far

With a series of high-level summits culminating in a visit to Germany in the fall by President Xi Jinping, this was supposed to be the year of Europe-China diplomacy. Instead, Europeans are warning of a damaging rift.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2020

Japan waiting for Golden Week to decide on extension of state of emergency, sources say

Japan will decide during its Golden Week holiday between April 29 and May 6 whether to extend its monthlong state of emergency to fight a widening coronavirus outbreak, government and ruling party sources said Tuesday.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 21, 2020

Moral trade-offs in a time of pandemic

Policymakers must tread a fine line between saving lives and saving livelihoods.
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SATOYAMA CONSORTIUM
Apr 21, 2020

Panel groups share marine protection efforts

Fishermen, divers, nonprofits and other organizations are working in communities across Japan to conserve marine and coastal environments that have been threatened by natural disasters, unbalanced marine ecology and other factors.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2020

Trump and the WHO: the wrong time to pick a fight

Once again, Japan must step up to fill the leadership vacuum created by a U.S. withdrawal from a multilateral agency.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic