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China encourages T&T students to apply for scholarships amid US visa concerns
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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RADHICA DE SILVA Senior Multimedia Reporter radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.tt As uncertainty grows in Trinidad and Tobago over new United States visa policies that involve monitoring student social media, the Chinese Embassy...
Column: Joining hands amid uncertainties -- an opportune time for closer China-Japan-S. Korea cooperation
Xinhua News Agency
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by Yan Liang The global multilateral trading system is currently facing unprecedented challenges. Capital markets are experiencing significant volatility, and security risks to industrial and supply chains are on the rise. China, Japan and South...
Donald Trump Signs Order Banning Foreign Students' Visas At Harvard University
News18
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June 5, 2025
Last Updated:June 05, 2025, 06:59 IST Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring most foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard, accusing the university of posing national security risks. A sculler rows down the Charles River...
China's 'ASEAN visa' welcomed
China Daily Global
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By PRIME SARMIENTO in Hong Kong and LEONARDUS JEGHO in Jakarta | China Daily | Updated: 2025-06-05 09:25 An official guides Vietnamese tourists in filling out the entry application forms at a newly opened passage gate in Fangchenggang, Guangxi...
China rolls out major reforms ahead of gaokao, its national college entrance exam
The Straits Times
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June 5, 2025
High school students prepare for the National College Entrance Examination, known as gaokao, in Fuyang, Anhui, on May 27.PHOTO: AFP BEIJING - China’s national college entrance exam, known as gaokao, will take place from June 7 to 10 and feature...
China’s Rare Earth Export Curbs Impact Auto Industries Globally- Indian, Japanese And European Delegates To Discuss Future Changes Soon!
News24
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June 5, 2025
The acute shortage of rare earth minerals has left the automotive industry in a predicament, a report by Reuters has revealed that some European auto parts plants have suspended output and beyond that, manufacturing giants such as Mercedes Benz...
India-Myanmar trade disruptions cause price hike; Families unable to send kids to school due to rising costs
Democratic Voice of Burma
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June 5, 2025
India-Myanmar trade disruptions cause price hike Residents of Arakan State told DVB that hundreds of cargo trucks belonging to merchants from Burma in India’s Lawngtlai District in Mizoram State have been unable to depart since May 25. A merchant...
China's Sichuan province to offer extended marriage and maternity leave
Channel News Asia
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China's birth rates have been falling for decades as a result of the one-child policy China implemented from 1980 to 2015 as well as rapid urbanisation. The high cost of childcare and education as well as job uncertainty and a slowing economy have...
Japan's Imperial family pay respects at Tsushima Maru monument in Okinawa
NHK
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Japan's Emperor and Empress and their daughter have paid their respects to the victims of a ship that sank in a US attack while evacuating hundreds of children from Okinawa during World War Two. Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko...
India’s actions in Op Sindoor measured: Rajnath
Hindustan Times
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June 5, 2025
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday told Australia that its actions against Pakistan during the recent four-day military confrontation under Operation Sindoor were “measured, non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible”, during talks between defence...
Chinese Embassy in the US Firmly Opposes US State Department's Plan to Revoke Chinese Students' Visas
Global Times
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Chinese Embassy in the US Firmly Opposes US State Department’s Plan to Revoke Chinese Students’ Visas By Embassy of China in the US Published: May 30, 2025 07:25 AM On May 29, in response to media queries about US State Department’s statement...
Japanese company to make second Moon landing attempt
The National News
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Japan’s ispace is preparing to attempt a second Moon landing on Friday, more than two years after its first mission ended in failure moments before touchdown. The private space company is aiming to deliver its Resilience lander safely onto the...
Japan's Ritsumeikan to support university students hit by US visa interview suspension
The Mainichi
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June 5, 2025
This file photo shows Kinugasa Campus of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. (Mainichi/Masayoshi Nakane) KYOTO -- The Ritsumeikan Trust based here announced on June 3 that its affiliated universities will accept up to 100 international students and...
Japan is not doing enough to avoid ‘toilet panic’ in disasters
The Straits Times
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June 5, 2025
TOKYO – Soon after a powerful earthquake devastated Japan’s Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day in 2024, councillor Tsuyoshi Yamahana heard about the dire state of public restrooms at a local train station. Mr Yamahana, a member of the Nanao City...
China’s Sichuan province to offer extended marriage and maternity leave
740 The Fan - North Dakota
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June 5, 2025
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Health authorities in China’s southwestern Sichuan province are proposing to extend marriage leave up to 25 days and maternity leave up to 150 days, to help create a “fertility-friendly society” which boosts the country’s...
Japanese manga comic predicts ‘great disaster’ in July 2025 – what could it mean?
Metro
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June 5, 2025
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on March 18, 2011 (Picture: Getty Images AsiaPac) Andrea Horbinski, 40, isn’t that fussed that Japan could face Armageddon in only a few weeks. Horbinski, who holds a PhD in Japanese history, knows all too...
China's BYD to nearly triple South Africa dealers' network by next year
Yahoo Finance
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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Chinese electric-vehicle giant BYD plans to nearly triple its dealership network in South Africa by next year as it looks to grow its market share in the country, a senior executive told Reuters. BYD's...
India News | State Government to Observe Dr Bhupen Hazarika's Birth Centenary as a Public Celebration: Assam CM
Latestly
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June 5, 2025
Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 5 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday chaired the first meeting of the Core Committee at Lok Sewa Bhawan in Guwahati to mark the birth centenary of Bharat Ratna Xudhakantha Dr Bhupen...
China Flaunts 12,000-KM Nuclear Missiles That Can Strike The U.S. Anywhere; Comes After Hegseth’s Provocation?
The Eurasian Times
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June 5, 2025
Known for its secretive nuclear weapons program, China has for the first time revealed key details of one of the country’s nuclear weapons. In a rare gesture that has taken China watchers by surprise, China’s state broadcaster CCTV has released...
Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiracy and Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S. for their Work at a University of Michigan Laboratory
Tri State Livestock News - South Dakota
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June 5, 2025
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud, announced United States Attorney...