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Belt and Road

China’s Belt and Road can speed development, needs transparency: World Bank

PHOTO: REUTERS WASHINGTON: Chinas massive Belt and Road infrastructure drive could speed up economic development and reduce poverty for dozens of developing countries, the World Bank said in a new report that called for deep policy reforms and more transpar…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

[News analysis] Xi Jinping’s N. Korea visit indicates 4-party format in denuclearization talks

Xi Jinping’s N. Korea visit indicates 4-party format in denuclearization talks

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Korean War

China says history shows positive outcome from U.S. talks possible

BEIJING (Reuters) - Four decades of dealings between China and the United States show that positive outcomes were always possible, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after their presidents agreed to rekindle trade talks at a G20 meeting this month. …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Orangutan

Indonesia pet orangutans released back into the wild

JAKARTA: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critic…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

China’s most advanced Big Brother experiment is a bureaucratic mess

BEIJING - The city of Suzhou, known as “the Venice of the East” for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today it’s drawing attention for another grand project: …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Alibaba

25 Top achievers in Tech: Inspiration

The world of developers is crammed with brilliant minds that have offered the tech world some astonishing business ideas and opportunities. Those that influence tech are not only developers though, and that is why some people on the list are not from the worl…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Orangutan

Indonesia pet orangutans released back into the wild

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Skateboard

Tyshawn Jones Receives First-Ever Pro Signature Shoe

Supreme rider and Skater of the Year Tyshawn Jones is being given his first-ever Pro Signature shoe by adidas Skateboarding the Triple White Tyshawn sneaker. Done in a crisp white upper with a boxy build, the signature shoe bears the aesthetic cues of a bas…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Has Met His Match

Almost two weeks after Ekrem Imamoglus shock victory in Istanbuls mayoral election in March, which he narrowly won by some 13,000 votes, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had still not conceded defeat. So Imamoglu turned to the power of Turkeys s…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

Xi writes rare op-ed in North Korea’s ruling party newspaper, touts ‘grand plan’ for East Asia stability

Chinese President Xi Jinping has penned a front page op-ed in the Wednesday edition of North Korea’s ruling party newspaper, a day ahead of his landmark visit to the nuclear-armed country, writing that Beijing is willing to work with Pyongyang to prepare a “g…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

China’s Belt and Road can speed development, needs transparency: World Bank

[News analysis] Xi Jinping’s N. Korea visit indicates 4-party format in denuclearization talks

China says history shows positive outcome from U.S. talks possible

Indonesia pet orangutans released back into the wild

25 Top achievers in Tech: Inspiration

Indonesia pet orangutans released back into the wild

Tyshawn Jones Receives First-Ever Pro Signature Shoe

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Has Met His Match

Xi writes rare op-ed in North Korea’s ruling party newspaper, touts ‘grand plan’ for East Asia stability

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