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  • People view a burgundy electric vehicle on a red carpet beneath a large promotional poster

    BYD and Alibaba among big names aiding China’s military, Pentagon says

    Updated Pentagon list includes swathe of China’s top technology firms in move that could inflame tensions between the countries
  • A large yellow cylindrical structure wrapped in scaffolding and banners under construction at a shipyard

    World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China

  • Police gather in front of a collapsed Jollibee fast food restaurant

    Powerful earthquake in southern Philippines leaves at least 37 dead

  • Drone footage shows tilted houses and buildings with collapsed walls and roofs in General Santos City, one of the areas in the Phillipines hardest hit by a magnitude-7.8 quake which struck early Monday 8 June

    Philippines earthquake: buildings destroyed after 7.8 magnitude quake – video

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  • a view of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa district

    Izakaya economics: Japan’s traditional night out fights tooth and ale for survival

  • A magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook part of the southern Philippines early on Monday

    Powerful earthquake strikes southern Philippines – video

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  • Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan walk the red carpet with Kim Jong-un and wife Ri Sol-ju past a North Korean honour guard

    Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang on trip to revitalise China-North Korea ties

  • Four people gather around a camera on a tripod, filming a small potted plant on the pavement

    China
    China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines

  • Hands hold red stickers reading "OUT" over a portrait of Shinsegae Chairman Chung Yong-jin next to a Starbucks logo

    South Korea
    How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

  • Nauru from a satellite

    Nauru
    Nauru issues rare statement after whistleblower alleges violent threats against Australia’s non-citizens

  • People in a crowd in Southampton hold England and Union Jack flags, some standing in a tree

    Race
    Europe’s far right exploit Henry Nowak murder in UK with populist rhetoric on race

  • A man kneels down among rows vegetables.

    Global development
    ‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh

  • A person in a red and yellow sari sits under an umbrella selling leafy greens at a street market

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Monsoon season brings vital rainfall to parts of Asia

  • The Audio Long Read
    Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan – podcast

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  • A hand holds up a cockroach mask in front of a large crowd

    India
    ‘What if all cockroaches came together?’ The youth movement threatening to shake up India’s politics

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