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Advertisements for factory rentals at Datang village in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 12, 2025

China factories cut shifts and workers' pay as U.S. tariffs bite

The increasingly common practice has become a hidden deflationary force in the world's second-largest economy.
Myanmar's national flag flutters at half-mast outside the City Hall in Yangon on July 19.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 13, 2025

Myanmar region sees 'dramatic' hunger rise after aid cutbacks

The situation was exacerbated in April when the World Food Program was forced to cut aid to 1 million people nationwide.
Among the middle school students who admitted to abusing over-the-counter medication, the majority — around 64% — said they got them from pharmacies while a third said they had access to them in their own households.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2025

1 in 55 Japanese middle schoolers abuse over-the-counter drugs, survey shows

Most of them got the drugs from pharmacies and their own households.
A worker at Stetman LLC repairs a damaged Starlink terminal in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on July 14.
WORLD
Aug 13, 2025

Starlink techies keep Musk’s network running, even in a war

Despite his on-and-off feud with Trump and the subsequent exile from the White House, Musk remains a central figure in the war.
Filmmakers interview the general manager of a Bald Men's club for an upcoming Flix Oven documentary that will be available via the streaming platform Samansa.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 14, 2025

Samansa bets on commuter cinema

As attention spans get shorter, a Japanese startup is banking on short films as easily digestible entertainment.
T-shirts with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are displayed for sale at a gift shop in central Moscow, Russia on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

Trump and Putin: A strained relationship

The upcoming meeting between the two leaders in Alaska comes amid tensions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fruitless talks to end the conflict.
Setsuko Kawai, who lost her mother and two younger brothers in the March 1945 bombing, has fought for recognition of the victims.
JAPAN / History / FOCUS
Aug 14, 2025

Civilian air raid survivors fight for recognition 80 years after war's end

After drafting a bill to provide concrete relief to survivors this spring, a bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to submit it to parliament days before the session’s closure.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 15, 2025

Trump will seek to squeeze Ukraine ceasefire deal out of Putin at Alaska summit

The meeting of the Russian and U.S. leaders in Alaska comes amid Ukrainian and European fears that Trump might sell Kyiv out.
People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar's military and an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State in November 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2025

Desperate Myanmar villagers scavenge for food as hunger bites

As the military fights an ethnic armed group, it has blockaded Rakhine State — throttling supplies to its estimated population of 2.5 million.
Louis Rees-Zammit participates in training camp with the Jaguars in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 24.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Aug 15, 2025

Wales' Louis Rees-Zammit returns to rugby after NFL dream ends

English Premiership side Bristol said Thursday that Rees-Zammit was joining with "immediate effect" ahead of the new league season.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers