Asia Pacific

Torrential rain battered Southern China on Sunday, inflicting flooding and forcing tens of 1000’s of evacuations within the nation’s most populous province, as a waterspout appeared briefly in Hong Kong and forecasters warned of probably extreme flooding. Rain has been falling in Guangdong, which has a inhabitants of about 127 million, since final week. It […] More

The revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers examined optimistic for a banned drug seven months earlier than the Tokyo Olympics however have been secretly cleared and allowed to proceed competing has uncovered a bitter and at instances deeply private rift inside the game, and introduced new criticism of the worldwide authority that oversees drug-testing. A New […] More

Whenever a suspicion of doping arises in an Olympics, consideration can shift rapidly from the athletes who gained gold, silver and bronze medals to those who missed out. On Saturday, The New York Times revealed an investigation into an unreported case by which 23 high Chinese swimmers examined optimistic for a robust banned drug in […] More

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in international support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the road to advance the long-stalled support bundle by marshaling help from mainstream Republicans and Democrats. In 4 back-to-back votes, overwhelming bipartisan coalitions of lawmakers authorised contemporary rounds of […] More

The evening Ma Suu Kyi thought she would die of her wounds on the entrance strains of a forgotten battle, a crescent moon hung overhead. A pendant of the Virgin Mary dangled round her neck. Maybe these augurs saved her. Or perhaps, she mentioned, it was not but time for her to die. “When I […] More

In the primary days of 2021, seven months earlier than the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, 23 of China’s greatest swimmers examined constructive for a similar banned drug at a home meet. Chinese antidoping officers investigated and declared the case an uncommon mass-contamination occasion that may very well be traced to the presence of a coronary heart […] More

Congress didn’t ship any representatives to the temple’s inauguration, and I had anticipated Gandhi to discuss Ayodhya, which lies, in any case, in Uttar Pradesh. But he barely talked about it, even in Varanasi, a metropolis dealing with a possible reprise of Ayodhya. The morning after his speech there, I visited 1 / 4 referred […] More

An Israeli response to Iran’s assault appears inevitable Top European diplomats traveled to Israel yesterday to make yet another plea for the nation to point out restraint in response to Iran’s aerial assault over the weekend. But David Cameron, Britain’s overseas secretary, mentioned {that a} reprisal appeared inevitable. “It is obvious that the Israelis are […] More

Somehow, hundreds of pages of sealed court docket paperwork referring to the beginning of TikTok’s proprietor, ByteDance, had been mistakenly launched by a Pennsylvania court docket. Before they had been made secret once more, I learn them. The paperwork — emails, chat transcripts and memos — are an enchanting window into ByteDance’s origins. They present […] More

The high finishers within the Beijing Half Marathon have been disqualified after three runners from Africa appeared to step apart to let a Chinese competitor win the race on Sunday. The 4 runners approached the end line shut collectively, as they’d been for a lot of the race. But then three of the runners appeared […] More

China’s automobile shipments to international markets have quintupled up to now 4 years. Its photo voltaic panels dominate world markets. Even exports in labor-intensive industries like furnishings making, which China was as soon as anticipated to lose to lower-wage international locations, are surging. American and European leaders have grow to be more and more vocal […] More

As he campaigns throughout India for an election that begins on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks of his insatiable ambitions by way of dinner-table urge for food. Roofs over heads, water connections, cooking gasoline cylinders — Mr. Modi reads down the menu of what he calls the considerable “growth” he has offered to India’s […] More