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South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, discussed regional security on the Korean Peninsula and other bilateral matters during consultations on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in
Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin laid out his government’s policies on Monday in an address containing immediate economic deliverables for his Pheu Thai Party, few tangible solutions for structural problems, and hints at popular
Guangzhou has quietly abandoned a controversial, seven-year-old policy limiting new housing prices, in a move to ease controls on the ailing property market. Developers still need to file planned selling prices with authorities, but regulators
The election body is planning to move the registration deadline for presidential and vice-presidential candidates to mid-October from late November, a change that could require political parties to rush their nomination decisions. KPU chairman Hasyim
China’s income gap has grown to the widest it has ever been since records began, as the average household income of the top 20% in urban areas reaches 6.3 times of the lowest 20%. Critics