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Oct 14 2019 | 11:55 amHong Kong violence prompts debate but no division among protesters
Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s more hardline pro-democracy protesters have embraced increased violence towards private property, businesses and even people, triggering some soul-searching within the mov...
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Sep 19 2019 | 04:56 pmUN General Assembly to spotlight climate change: Guterres
New York: The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 74) will spotlight climate change in the coming days when leaders gather at the UN headquarters in New York to discuss issues of...
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Jul 29 2019 | 11:13 amAmerican 16-year-old becomes solo Fortnite champ, winning $3 mn
New York: American Kyle Giersdorf, alias “Bugha,” became the first Fortnite world champion in the solo division, winning $3 million at age 16. Originally from Pennsylvania, the young gamer...
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Jul 29 2019 | 11:07 amForced labour to high finance: Hong Kong investor’s unlikely journey
Hong Kong: Exiled to the Gobi Desert at the age of 15, Weijian Shan’s days were marked by gnawing hunger and back-breaking forced labour. But his sense of hope was kept alive by an unlikely sour...
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- UN General Assembly to spotlight climate change: Guterres
- American 16-year-old becomes solo Fortnite champ, winning $3 mn
- Forced labour to high finance: Hong Kong investor’s unlikely journey
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Features
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Xi’s South Asia trip boosts ties with India and Nepal, promotes regional cooperation
Kathmandu: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to India and Nepal has injected new impetus into China’s relations with the two countries, built new platform for good-neighborliness in South Asia, and opened up new prospects for regional p...
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Giant art project transforms East German housing blocks
Berlin: An enduring reminder of the communist era, the vast, concrete “Plattenbau” tower blocks that surround cities in eastern Germany are usually considered eyesores rather than works of art. Yet, a new urban culture project in the city...
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From Asia to Africa: Nepali, South Asian women trafficked to Kenya’s Bollywood-style dance bars
By Nita Bhalla Mombasa: Nepali beautician Sheela didn’t think twice about ditching her salon job when she received a call offering seven times her salary to work as a cultural dancer at a nightclub in Kenya.
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Sex workers give red light to leaving famed Amsterdam district
Amsterdam: Bathed in red neon light, hundreds of prostitutes ply their trade from behind windows in the narrow canalside streets of Amsterdam – and that’s how they want it to stay.
Opinion
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Biodiversity and sustainable tourism in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
By Janita Gurung and Anu Kumari Lama Biodiversity and tourism linkages Biodiversity is the basis for many tourism activities in th...
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Brexit, a sign of anti-elite revolt: Analysts
PARIS: It was Britain’s poorer and less-educated citizens — angry at not having shared in the economic benefits of a n...
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Oct 14 2019 | 05:39 pmTwo NASA astronauts complete nearly 7-hour spacewalk
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Oct 14 2019 | 11:55 amHong Kong violence prompts debate but no division among protesters
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Oct 14 2019 | 11:46 amXi’s South Asia trip boosts ties with India and Nepal, promotes regional cooperation
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Oct 13 2019 | 08:37 pmXi says China ready promote friendly cooperation, start ‘new chapter’ with Nepal