Tag: East Asia
China regulator fines 12 firms over anti-monopoly law
HONG KONG — China’s market regulator said Friday that it fined a dozen companies, including games company Tencent Holdings and Chinese search engine firm...
Asian soccer gets 8 host hubs for World Cup qualifying games
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The delayed World Cup qualifying matches in Asia will be completed in June with each of the eight groups playing...
‘Minari’ actor is nonchalant about new fame outside S. Korea
<p>SEOUL, South Korea — When Youn Yuh-jung was asked how she felt about being called the “Meryl Streep of South Korea" in a recent...
Hungary emerges as an EU vaccination star amid surging cases
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary has emerged as a European Union leader in COVID-19 vaccinations thanks to a strategy that sought shots from Russia and...
N Korean defectors struggle to send money home amid pandemic
<p>ANSAN, South Korea — For the first time in years, Choi Bok-hwa didn’t get her annual birthday call from her mother in North Korea....
Ant Group CEO resigns for personal reasons
The CEO of Ant Group, the world’s biggest financial technology company, has resigned from the company due to personal reasons.
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Newspaper: China to soon try 2 Canadians on spying charges
<p>BEIJING — A Communist Party newspaper says China will soon begin trials for two Canadians, who were arrested two years ago in apparent retaliation...
Tussle between US, allies over vaccine supply escalates
BRUSSELS — Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses are in cold storage in the U.S. that can’t be injected in the states because they are...
Russian folk song rejected as substitute Olympic anthem
GENEVA — Russia's wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a replacement anthem for the Tokyo Olympics was rejected by the Court...
Rights groups and Olympic leaders in Beijing Games stalemate
GENEVA — Activists protesting the 2022 Beijing Olympics hoped China’s record on human rights would get on the agenda this week at a major...