China’s increasing naval power, the country having surpassed the United States as the world’s largest maritime force, is giving Beijing crucial sway
Hinduism is a major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia.
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Iraq is beset with crises. In the scorching summer heat, the country is suffering from electricity and water shortages, longstanding challenges that have routinely resulted in violent protests as part of wider grievances around lack of services and rampant corruption.
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Alibaba Group unveiled a new lifestyle services division and announced a series of management changes on Friday, part of the e-commerce giant’s efforts to drive synergies across its platform and upgrade customer services.
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The Iranian leadership has a problem: a record number of voters -- more than half of them -- turned their back on the presidential election by not taking party in the vote.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has teamed with Habitat for Humanity International to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) deliver housing loans to low-income families in rural and peri-urban areas of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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Iran has warned that it will start enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity, two days after an alleged sabotage attack on the country's main Natanz nuclear site that it blamed on archenemy Israel.
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In some Asia-Pacific countries, the unpleasant memory of the pandemic is receding; elsewhere, second or third waves of infections are raging.
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Ground X, the blockchain unit of South Korea's Internet giant Kakao, is utilizing its public blockchain Klaytn to transform a leading local media group into an incentivized, blockchain-based content platform.
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An improving global economic outlook and progress on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations have pushed up bond yields in emerging East Asia.
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California-based singer Sassan Heydari-Yafteh, better known to fans as Sasy Mankan, has prompted threats and detentions by Iranian authorities who say his new music clip featuring a hard-core porn actress is obscene.
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