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Weight-Related Deaths Can Affect Non-Obese Too

You don’t have to be diagnosed as obese to be at risk of dying from illnesses related to excess weight, a global...

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China Allocates More Funding For Poverty Relief

China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan to fund people living in poverty China's central...

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Panama Cuts Ties With Taiwan In Favour of China

The Panama Canal is vital for global trade Panama has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and established relations with...

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Panama Cuts Ties With Taiwan, Switches To China

Panama broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and switched to Beijing, accepting its One China policy, the...

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Pentagon Chief Warns North Korea Is ‘most Urgent’ Threat To Peace

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis on Monday warned that North Korea poses the most urgent threat to international peace and...

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Crown Staff Charged In China Gambling Crackdown

Up to 18 staff from Australian billionaire James Packer's Crown Resorts have been charged with promoting gambling in...

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Indian Prime Minister Modi To Meet With Trump In Washington

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States later this month to meet President Donald Trump for the first...

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Fugitive Chinese Billionaire Faces Charges In New York

A Chinese billionaire who made allegations of high-level corruption against Communist Party officials in his homeland...

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N.Korea Evading Sanctions Through Web of Illicit Networks

Sanctions have failed to stop North Korea's weapons program because the regime has a "complex overseas financing and...

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Uber Weighs Shake-Up As Inquiry Report Looms

Uber on Monday was mulling a shake-up of top management, including a possible leave of absence for its chief executive,...

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The Chinese Factor, Environment and Global Natural Resources

Monday June 5, 2017 marked World Environment Day. The day cannot pass by without talking about Chinese attitude and...

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Taiwan Lawmakers Launch Support Group For Hong Kong Democracy

Lawmakers in Taiwan launched a new group to help promote democracy in Hong Kong on Monday, a move likely to rile...

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Xi To Meet FIFA Boss As China Harbours World Cup Ambition

China's football-mad President Xi Jinping will meet with FIFA chief Gianni Infantino in Beijing on Wednesday as the...

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Marissa Mayer Fades Out As Yahoo Ends Its Run

Marissa Mayer was hailed as Yahoo's savior when she took charge of the pioneering internet firm five years ago. But...

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President Akufo-Addo Announces New Tax To Support African Union

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has announced a new import tax aimed at supporting the activities of the African...

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South Africa’s Frittelli Claims Debut Golf Tour Title

South Africa's Dylan Frittelli won his maiden European Tour title on Sunday, a final round of five-under-par 67...

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No Sign of Healing In G7 Climate Change Rift

The United States' partners in the G7 club of wealthy democracies vowed Sunday to pursue efforts to curb climate change...

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Capello To Skipper China’s Jiangsu Suning

Former England, Real Madrid and Russia manager Fabio Capello was named on Sunday to lead China's Jiangsu Suning, one of...

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Tanzania Signs $154 Mln Contract With Chinese Firm To Expand Main Port

Tanzania's government signed a $154 million contract on Saturday with the state-run China Harbour Engineering Company...