Tag: East Asia
Japan says Chinese military likely behind cyberattacks
<p>TOKYO — Tokyo police are investigating cyberattacks on about 200 Japanese companies and research organizations, including the country’s space agency, by a hacking group...
Report: Mideast countries top 2020 global executioners list
<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Apart from China and despite a worldwide drop in death sentences, countries in the Middle East remained among the...
PM Suga makes offerings at Yasukuni shrine but doesn’t visit
<p>TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday donated religions offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a...
Older Korean-Americans in LA fearful amid anti-Asian attacks
<p>Los Angeles — Yong Sin Kim, an 85-year-old Korean immigrant living in a senior apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, says he rarely leaves...
Japanese businessmen brighten makeup industry amid pandemic
<p>TOKYO — The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many businesses in Japan to the edge of financial ruin, but Takumi Tezuka, who owns a makeup...
Biden’s virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch
<p>WASHINGTON — There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The...
Amid US strains, China’s Xi warns against ‘unilateralism’
<p>BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for more equitable management of global affairs and, in an implicit rejection of U.S. dominance,...
Older Korean-Americans in LA fearful amid anti-Asian attacks
Los Angeles — Yong Sin Kim, an 85-year-old Korean immigrant living in a senior apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, says he rarely leaves...
Pandemic puts tulips, bluebells, cherry blossoms in hiding
<p>HALLE, Belgium — There is no stopping flowers when they bloom, blossoms when they burst. Unfortunately, people have been stopped from enjoying them these...
Japanese businessmen brighten makeup industry amid pandemic
TOKYO — The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many businesses in Japan to the edge of financial ruin, but Takumi Tezuka, who owns a makeup...