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Jul 12, 2022

Hong Kong leader defends health code plan to combat COVID-19

Hong Kong's leader is defending the city’s plan to implement health codes that would more accurately restrict the movements of inbound travelers and people infected with COVID-19

Jul 12, 2022

Global shares fall as investors await US inflation update

Global shares are mostly lower after a slump on Wall Street erased recent gains

Jul 12, 2022

China bank customers to get deposits back after protests

Financial regulators in central China's Henan and Anhui provinces have promised to give some bank customers some of their deposits back after they staged protests over having their accounts frozen

Jul 12, 2022

Asian shares fall as investors await US inflation update

Asian shares are mostly lower after a slump on Wall Street erased recent gains

Jul 12, 2022

Abe's complicated legacy looms large for current Japan PM

Assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was perhaps the most divisive leader in recent Japanese history

Jul 11, 2022

Unification Church distances itself from Abe's assassination

The Unification Church has acknowledged that the mother of the man accused of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a member, but that an investigation is ongoing into media speculation that her donations may have angered her son and led to the killing

Jul 11, 2022

Macao streets empty after casinos shut to fight outbreak

Streets in the gambling center of Macao are empty after casinos and most other businesses were ordered to close while the Chinese territory near Hong Kong fights a coronavirus outbreak

Jul 11, 2022

Alibaba and Tencent stocks plunge after latest fines

Shares of Chinese technology firms Alibaba and Tencent have tumbled after Chinese regulators fined their subsidiaries for failing to disclose transactions and not complying with anti-monopoly rules

Jul 10, 2022

Chinese bank depositors face police in angry protest

A large crowd of angry Chinese bank depositors has faced off with police and some were roughed up in a case that has drawn attention because of earlier attempts to use a COVID-19 tracking app to prevent them from mobilizing

Jul 8, 2022

Japan's ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech