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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2015
IMF gives Chinese yuan Special Drawing Rights status
The International Monetary Fund on Monday admitted China's yuan into its benchmark currency basket, as expected, in a victory for Beijing's campaign for recognition as a global economic power.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 1, 2015
Swiss solar plane crew raises $20 million needed to resume record solo circumnavigation
The Swiss solar-powered plane whose record-setting, round-the-world flight was put on hold in July by weather and battery trouble has raised the $20 million it needs to finish the trip, co-founder and pilot Andre Borschberg said on Monday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 30, 2015
Smog chokes Chinese, Indian capitals as climate talks begin
The capitals of the world's two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where leaders of both countries are among the participants.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2015
China sends 14 officials to prison over 2013 oil pipeline blast
China has sentenced 14 former officials at state energy firm Sinopec and the local government to jail for up to five years for their role in a massive oil pipeline explosion in 2013, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 30, 2015
China moves from climate deal holdout to driving force behind slashed emissions
Back in 2009, China was a reluctant partner during major climate negotiations in Copenhagen that eventually collapsed amid recriminations between rich and poor nations. This time around the world's biggest polluter is regarded as a driving force behind what could be a comprehensive deal at a world climate...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2015
On China's fringes, cyberspies raise their game
Almost a year after students ended pro-democracy street protests in Hong Kong, they face an online battle against what Western security experts say are China-sponsored hackers using techniques rarely seen elsewhere.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 29, 2015
China's shadow banking risk shifts to booming bond market
A year after China's financial regulators squared up to the systemic perils of "shadow banking," the threat is shifting to a booming corporate bond market, and risky borrowers' debt is finding its way into products aimed at retail investors.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2015
Beijing's long commutes reflect a city bulging at the seams
The commute for millions of people living in and around Beijing is a daily grind that is ever more time-consuming, costly and crowded as residents dodge, push and elbow their way onto buses and subways.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2015
China police bust online gun ring, seize 1,180 guns
Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2015
Delayed Kabul-Jalalabad road project highlights China's challenge in Afghanistan
A new road linking the Afghan capital with a trade hub near Pakistan has been stuck in the slow lane since a state-owned Chinese company took the contract to build it two years ago, bedevilled by militant attacks and accusations of mismanagement.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2015
China unveils biggest army overhaul in decades
President Xi Jinping announced a major overhaul of China's military to make the world's largest army more combat ready and better equipped to project force beyond the country's borders.
EDITORIALS
Nov 26, 2015
Two competing views of Asia
APEC members must show a greater readiness to compromise if they are to overcome their significant differences on a number of important issues.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 26, 2015
Japan's crack submarine fleet
The Maritime Self-Defense Force has one of the stealthiest and best-trained submarine fleets in the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2015
How China can prevent the antibiotic apocalypse
China's millions of farmers are notorious for pumping their livestock full of antibiotics, a practice that is fueling the rise of bacteria resistant to some of the world's most powerful 'last resort' antibiotics.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2015
Joint air drill by China, Thailand a sign of rising ties
Thailand's military held an air show with China on Tuesday ahead of joint maneuvers in a sign of warming ties. Thailand said it was not distancing itself from the United States, which downgraded their military relationship following a 2014 coup.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2015
China uses flamethrower to hunt Xinjiang 'terrorists'
Chinese forces used a flamethrower to force more than 10 "terrorists" from a cave in the western Xinjiang region, the military's top newspaper said Monday, in a graphic account of the hunt for what Beijing called foreign-led extremists.

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