HONG KONG — K-pop girl group NewJeans has announced a pause on all activities days after a South Korean court ruled against its five members in a long-running dispute with record label Ador. The band, one of the top-selling acts in […]
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Comparison may be the thief of joy, but not if you’re from Finland. Despite sharing a border with an at-war Russia and receiving limited winter sunlight, the Scandinavian country has been ranked the world’s happiest country for the eighth year
HONG KONG — Organizers of a military-linked marathon in southern Taiwan have apologized after handing out trophies in the shape of a Chinese machine gun. The prizes from the Fengshan Marathon near the major city of Kaohsiung drew backlash over
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Australian lawmakers on Thursday approved a landmark ban on social media for children under 16, in some of the world’s toughest such controls. The ban, which aims to address the impact of excessive social media use on children’s physical and
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The first emperor penguin found in Australia has been released after spending 20 days in the care of a wildlife expert, the Australian government said Friday. The bird, nicknamed Gus by its caretaker, was released from a vessel off the
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HONG KONG — Thirty-five people were killed and another 43 were injured when a driver deliberately rammed his car into a crowd outside a sports center in southern China, police said Tuesday. A 62-year-old man was detained at the scene after
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HONG KONG — A key piece of a little-told chapter of World War II history almost ended up in a landfill. In 2015, a photographer in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong was exploring an apartment building scheduled for demolition
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Michael Pittman, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who specializes in dinosaur studies, said he was “very excited” about the landmark discovery, which researchers had “long expected.” “It’s difficult to find dinosaur bones in general,” Pittman
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The mysterious veil of the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan, has been lifted once again. Beneath the ancient rock-cut building, archaeologists have uncovered a hidden tomb containing 12 relatively well-preserved human skeletons along with an extensive array of grave offerings.
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HONG KONG — China conducted large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Monday in what it said was a warning to “independence forces” on the Beijing-claimed island. The exercises had been expected after Beijing criticized a speech last week by Taiwan
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