Archive for Economic News

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(English) Chinese manufacturing slows down

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(English) Japan ‘releases Chinese fishermen’ from near Okinawa

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(English) China ‘locked weapon’s targeting radar’ on Japanese ship

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(English) China vows to raise minimum wages

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North Korean satellite dead and not pointing at Earth, say US scientists

A North Korean satellite in orbit appears to be dead and no signal can be detected from the Kwangmyongsong-3 launched by Pyongyang in defiance of international sanctions. US-based astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said on Monday […]

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Philippine lawmakers go against church in vote on contraception laws

Philippine lawmakers on Monday approved the controversial Reproductive Health bill on the third and final reading, a historic vote in Asia’s biggest Catholic-majority country. The bill was introduced more than a decade ago but is still not passed into law. […]

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Hundreds mourn for royal hoax nurse in India

Hundreds of people mourned for Jacintha Saldanha during her burial in Shirva, southwest India, as her family took care to follow funeral arrangements she set out in a suicide note. “The events of the last week have shattered our lives […]

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China cracks down on end of the world cult

Members of an outlawed cult are being detained by authorities across China to stop believers from taking “drastic actions” ahead of what the group says is the end of the world. The Church of Almighty God says that the world […]

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Indonesian survivor promotes “tsunami tourism” in Japan

A survivor of the 2004 tsunami that hit the northwestern coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island is promoting what he called “tsunami tourism” during a conference in Asia Pacific Region. Rahmadhani, 42, said in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun the […]

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Australia will divert foreign aid to refugees at home

Australia’s plan to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to asylum-seekers at home came under fire on Tuesday, with critics saying it would take away significant amounts of money previously allotted to the world’s poorest people. The […]