Instead of handing out envelopes of cash to Alibaba's employees this Lunar New Year, Jack Ma is distributing a huge reality check.
A huge majority will allow the party greater freedom in passing bills, but it also means that there is no check on the decisions they make and no one else they can blame if things go wrong.
A newspaper column by a well-known author that said it was better for people of different races to live separately is causing a ruckus in Japan.
MANILA--Some of the South Korean men involved in a major dog fighting ring in the Philippines are on their way back home. After spending nearly three years behind bars after convictions for animal cruelty, two of the eight men were deported this week and another four will be in the near future, according to Rosevida Nabong, an attorney for the Philippines' Bureau of Immigration.
Thousands have turned up at the door of the usually quiet Indonesian National Gallery in Jakarta since an exhibition on 19th century freedom fighter Diponegoro opened earlier this month.
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Investment fund China Minsheng Investment said it plans to invest $1.5 billion into building a financial district in London alongside another Chinese developer, marking its first major overseas move in its global expansion.
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Two years after surviving a bomb attack in Iraq, the author bolted from a movie theater when an explosion occurred on-screen.
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Chinese taxi-hailing apps backed by rival Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent plan to merge, the companies said.
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India’s premier pushed police in the capital to catch the culprits in a series of recent attacks on Christian houses of worship and a school, and more.
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Weak approval ratings, scandals, a sluggish economy and an outcry over a coming speech to the U.S. Congress aren’t preventing Benjamin Netanyahu from emerging as a favorite to win an election mandate for a fourth term.
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Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, surveys the damage done by Russia and asks for ‘a miracle’ of U.S. arms.
The insular Jewish community of Djerba, Tunisia, has weathered revolution and terrorism. Can it survive girls’ education?
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Alibaba said the U.S. agency wants to find out about the company’s interactions with a Chinese regulator about alleged sales of fake goods.
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Shared Orthodox Christianity and political sympathies have forged a bond between Moscow and the new leaders in Athens, complicating Western efforts to address problems with both governments.
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Under Confucius’s teaching, the majority of Chinese people endured 2,000 years of subsistence living, while the ruling class controlled most resources and wealth.
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President Bush did not lie, but he and his administration are guilty of numerous deliberate deceptions.
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Moody’s Investors Service raised Latvia’s bond rating by a notch, citing the country’s strong financial position despite regional instability brought on by Russia.
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Islamic State militants wearing Iraqi military uniforms and suicide vests attacked an Iraqi air base where U.S. military advisers are training Iraq’s security forces, the most direct attack on a base used by U.S. forces since the current conflict began.
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