Asia

China Forbids Publicly Memorializing Tiananmen Massacre. Will Hong Kong Follow?

6:12am June 03, 2021

by John Ruwitch

Friday marks the 32nd anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong authorities are making it harder to publicly mark the event.

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India's COVID-19 Outbreak Has Spread To Nepal

5:36pm June 02, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

India's COVID-19 outbreak has spread to neighboring Nepal, where it's straining an even smaller, less-resourced health system. The virus has even reached Mount Everest, where climbers have fallen ill.

Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship X-Press Pearl on Wednesday. The ship carries more than 80 containers of dangerous goods, including 25 tons of nitric acid.

Sri Lanka Faces An Environmental Disaster As A Ship Full Of Chemicals Starts Sinking

4:05pm June 02, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

A Cambodian migrant farm worker stands outside the greenhouse where she works growing vegetables in Miryang, South Korea.

World News

As Workforce Ages, South Korea Increasingly Depends On Migrant Labor

1:32pm June 02, 2021

by Anthony Kuhn

South Korea's population is shrinking and aging. Foreign workers help fill shortages on farms and in factories, but it's very hard for them to become citizens. Some say that will soon have to change.

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Rescuers take residents to safer ground as floods caused by Tropical Storm Dante hit Maasin City in Southern Leyte province, central Philippines. The tropical storm has left at least a few people dead and displaced hundreds of people in the southern and c

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Storm Hits The Philippines, Leaving At Least 3 Dead And Hundreds Displaced

10:48am June 02, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The wet season in the Philippines typically starts in June and lasts until November.

Sports

As Most Of Japan Is Under Emergency Orders, Calls Grow To Cancel Olympics

5:45am June 02, 2021

by Anthony Kuhn

The the first international athletes have arrived in Japan ahead of the Olympics that start on July 23. The country has also started vaccinating its own athletes.

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Devastating 2nd Wave Of Coronavirus Has Changed India's Media Landscape

6:25pm June 01, 2021

Audie Cornish talks with Manisha Pande of the Indian news outlet "Newslaundry" about how India's devastating second COVID-19 wave has changed local media's coverage of the crisis and the government.

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From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose o

AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'

6:17pm June 01, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.

World News

Who The Uyghurs Are And Why China Is Targeting Them

12:37am June 01, 2021

NPR's history podcast Throughline bring us the story of why the Uyghur people have become the target of what many are calling a genocide in China.

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Allowing couples in China to have up to three children rather than two will help the country counteract a population that's shifting towards the elderly, the government says.

Confronted By Aging Population China Allows Couples To Have Three Children

4:58pm May 31, 2021

by Emily Feng

Facing a declining birthrate, China will allow married couples to have up to three children. This raises the previous ceiling of two children.