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Jack Ma says it’s his responsibility to let Alibaba go, warns of protracted US-China trade war

On succession planning, Ma said that his decision to step down was to ensure leadership renewal

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Naked Chinese businessmen detained in India after car crash

Police in Uttar Pradesh charge driver with reckless driving as they continue to investigate duo’s ‘eccentric behaviour’

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Eight crew saved from sinking barge in rough seas off Hong Kong Disneyland as Typhoon Mangkhut pummelled city

With T10 signal in force, barge started taking in water but crew’s efforts with pumps were to no avail

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Fashion tycoon will be first man to fly around the moon in SpaceX rocket

Hawthorne: A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.

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JD.com CEO, facing rape probe, skips tech forum

SHANGHAI: The CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, Richard Liu, will no longer appear at a high-profile state-run tech forum in Shanghai this week that he had earlier been scheduled to attend.

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UN: Army should be removed from politics

Yangon: Myanmar’s powerful army should be removed from politics, UN investigators said in the final version of a damning report reiterating calls for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

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Fossil skull may hold answers to evolution of humans

BEIJING: A fossil skull of Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct species of humans, was believed to have been discovered in Northeast China and is considered to be one of the most complete fossils of ancient humans ever found, experts said.

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158 firms named and shamed for pollution

BEIJING: China’s environmental authority has named and shamed 158 companies that discharged major pollutants at seriously excessive levels in the first quarter of 2018.

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Xi: China willing to share opportunities created by technology

BEIJING: China is willing to promote development, maintain security and share results with other countries in the field of artificial intelligence, President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory letter at the start of a gathering in Shanghai that has drawn some of the world’s top AI luminaries.

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S. Korean leader will seek to reboot nuke talks between North and US

Seoul: South Korea’s president and the North’s leader Kim Jong-un drove through the streets of Pyongyang together past thousands of cheering citizens ahead of a summit where Moon Jae-in will seek to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States.

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Grim search for victims

Itogon (Philippines): Hundreds of Philippine rescuers used shovels and their bare hands to sift through a massive landslide where dozens are feared dead in the region worst-hit by deadly Typhoon Mangkhut, as the storm’s toll hit 74.

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This just in: 12 plus 8 equals 4

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): If Joy picked 12 mangoes and Joe picked eight more mangoes more than she did, how many mangoes did Joe pick?

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The Facebook of graphic deaths and child porn: the Filipinos earning US$1 an hour filtering out the filth so you don’t have to see it

Movie to be shown at Hong Kong’s Human Rights Documentary Film Festival lifts lid on psychological toll taken on content moderators, some of whom see 25,000 disturbing images a day

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Young Hong Kong girl and her aunt fighting for their lives after car ploughs into family in Australia

50-year-old woman was arrested and charged with dangerous driving, drink driving, using a mobile phone while driving and negligent driving

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Fan Bingbing tax evasion scandal: four luxury brands caught up in the Chinese actress’ fall from grace

The actress, one of China’s highest-earning entertainers, has not been seen in public since the July scandal. Her disappearance poses some difficult questions for the luxury brands she endorses

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Ex-Philippine general jailed

MANILA: A retired Philippine army general was sentenced to decades behind bars over the 2006 disappearance of two activists, hailed by campaigners as a rare case of a top official being held to account.

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China, Sweden row over tourists booted from hotel

BEIJING: China has lodged a diplomatic complaint accusing Swedish police of treating Chinese tourists “brutally” after a family was roughly ejected from a Stockholm hotel, the foreign ministry said.

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Toddler killed in Thai camp mudslide

Bangkok: A two-year-old girl has died and seven others remain missing after a mudslide at a refugee camp in northern Thailand near the Myanmar border, police said.

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Hope fades in Philippines

ITOGON: A Philippine mayor said it’s unlikely any of the dozens of people thought buried in a huge landslide set off by Typhoon Mangkhut will be found alive, though rescuers were still digging through the massive mound of mud and debris covering a chapel where they had sheltered.

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Seven dead of suspected drug overdose in Vietnam festival

HANOI: Seven people have died of suspected drug overdoses during a music festival in Vietnam.