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China’s middle class: We’re being picked like leeks by the government
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Beijing, CNN (CNN)Spike Wang, a 29-year-old financial professional based in Shanghai, is struggling to live the Chinese dream. Wang is one of millions of Chinese...
Will the far right clean up as Rome crumbles?
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
In a small tailor shop in Prati, a plush Rome neighbourhood close to Vatican City, Francesca Carmen sighs as she looks up from her sewing machine towards the unsightly...
Leo Varadkar: Brexit has undermined Good Friday agreement
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Brexit has undermined the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland and has strained relations between Britain and Ireland, the Irish prime minister...
Storms raze forests bringing northern Italy ‘to its knees’
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Fierce winds and rains have killed at least 20 people in Italy this week and razed thousands of hectares of forest in the country’s devastated north, officials...
‘Why did it fly?’ Grief mixes with anger over crashed Lion Air flight
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
“I heard the plane from Bali already had a problem, right. So why did it fly?” asks Fendy, 43, as he sits on the kerb outside the...
Asia Bibi’s husband pleads for family asylum in UK after blasphemy acquittal
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted on charges of blasphemy has begged...
Washington Republican under fire for setting out ‘Biblical Basis for War’
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
The Washington state Republican Matt Shea was this week abandoned by donors, over a document he distributed which condemned abortion and same-sex marriage while...
China is committing ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang – it’s time for the world to stand up
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Now is the time to act on China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang. China’s efforts to destroy the ethnic Uighur identity through mass internment camps and...
Angela Merkel’s legacy: has she saved or destroyed Europe?
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Angela Merkel’s approach to a problem, wrote one of her biographers, is “to sit it out”. Rather than entertain grand ideas of a “historic...
Raymond Chow, Hong Kong producer who found Bruce Lee, dies
november 04, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Legendary Hong Kong film producer Raymond Chow, who introduced Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to the world and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the big screen, has died at...
