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Houston to embrace rich variety of Chinese New Year celebrations

Asia Society Texas Center in Houston will hold Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations Saturday with local Americans and Chinese participating in all kinds of art and craf

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Boris Johnson to Use High Tariffs as 'Leverage' in Trade Negotiations With EU, US - Report

As the UK is about to finalise its divorce from the European Union, British officials are also currently preparing for long and contentious talks with the remaining 27

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Japan gov't spends 2.44 billion USD on Tokyo Olympics in 6 years

The Japanese government said Friday it spent about 266.9 billion yen (2.44 billion U.S. dollars) in preparation for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in six years

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Champion Tanak 'fine' after spectacular Monte Carlo crash

A Hyundai Motorsport car during a rally race in Salou, Spain, October 25, 2019. Estonia's world champion rally driver Ott Tanak and his co-driver escaped unscathed on Friday after their Hyunda

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No talks held between PA, U.S. over Trump's Mideast peace plan: Palestinian official

A senior Palestinian official on Friday denied that the Palestinian Authority has held any talks with the United States over the "Deal of the Century." Nabil Abu Rudei

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Confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia rise to 5 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has reported three more cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to five. Respiratory samples of thre

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Shanghai Disney Resort temporarily closes to prevent coronavirus

Shanghai Disney Resort announced temporary closure on Friday, in response to China's prevention and control of a novel coronavirus outbreak. According to the announcem

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( January 18 -January 24 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | China reports 1,287

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2 confirmed dead in Houston explosion

Fire trucks are seen near an explosion site in Houston of Texas, the United States, Jan. 24, 2020. (Photo by Lao Chengyue/Xinhua) Authorities said the air quality so far is fine. However, as a preca

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Britain labels U.S. decision on extradition refusal "denial of justice"

Britain on Friday labelled the U.S. refusal to send a diplomat's wife back to Britain for trial a "denial of justice" over the death of 19-year-old Briton in a car crash. In a statement, British For

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Chinese policy bank offers emergency loan for Wuhan epidemic control

The China Development Bank, one of the country's major policy banks, offered emergency loans worth 2 billion yuan (about 288.3 million U.S. dollars) Friday to Wuhan fo

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CBA postpones matches due to coronavirus outbreak

Yi Jianlian (R) of the Guangdon g Southern Tigers tries to break through the defense of Zhou Qi of the Xinjiang Flying Tigers at the Hongshan Arena in Urumqi, the capital city of northwest China'

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Scientists recreate sound of 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy

06 September 2019, Great Britain, London: Visitors to the exhibition look at Egyptian mummies, sarcophagi and the cult of the dead in the Pharaonic Empire. (Photo by Waltraud Grubitzsch via Getty

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China to launch Mars probe in July

China announced that it will launch its first Mars mission probe in July this year, China Youth Daily reported Thursday, adding that this is the first time the country

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Trump administration officials to brief senators on Iran next week

Top officials from the U.S. State Department will conduct a classified briefing next week on Iran policy for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee said on Friday, amid a pu

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Vine reboot Byte officially launches

Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android. Byte lets you shoot or upload and

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Chinese Spring Festival comes to Downing Street

02:02 As the clock ticked down to the Year of the Rat, China's Spring Festival descended on Downing Street.UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the new year fun with children from Br