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News Articles: Asia

Painter Irfan Mohammad works on a truck at a sprawling workshop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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  • World

These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads

Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

February 05, 2022
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  • Hannah Bloch
Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh, winner of the 2021 RIBA International Prize. The hospital's zig-zag canal collects rainwater and aids in cooling the site.

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  • Architecture

A rural hospital in Bangladesh is named the world's best new building

The prestigious architectural prize celebrates the 80-bed hospital's human-centered design, built in harmony with the waterlogged local environment with a modest budget and local low-cost materials.

February 05, 2022
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  • Nell Clark
Chinese torchbearers and Olympic athletes Dinigeer Yilamujian (left) and Zhao Jiawen place the Olympic flame into its snowflake cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, at the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing.

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  • Sports

The Beijing Winter Olympics' cauldron lighting made a political statement

The cauldron is a snowflake, with a much smaller flame than usual. It was lit by two Olympians, including an athlete from the Xinjiang autonomous region, home to the Uyghur minority.

February 04, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
A firework display is seen during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium on Friday.

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  • Sports

The Winter Games have begun. See photos and highlights from the opening ceremony

The Winter Games kicked off Friday night in Beijing with an eye-catching but scaled-back opening ceremony. The city has made history as the first to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

February 04, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Marco Storel
Wang Jianzhi, who runs a blade sharpening shop in Beijing, has no plans to watch the Games: "Where should I get the time to watch Olympic figure skating?"

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  • Asia

How the Winter Olympics are being received in China

Despite a campaign from China to increase enthusiasm for winter sports, many in the country are indifferent to the Games and excitement is more muted than in 2008.

February 04, 2022
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  • Emily Feng
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) meets with the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, in Beijing on Jan. 25. Xi said his country was ready to host a "simple, safe and splendid Winter Olympics." The Olympics formally open on Friday.

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  • Asia

As the Olympics open, China seeks the limelight but warns against criticism

As the Winter Olympics begin Friday, China is welcoming the world at a time when Beijing's aggressive foreign policy is creating friction with several other parts of the globe.

February 03, 2022
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  • Greg Myre
Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

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  • Global Health

A 104-year-old COVID survivor has died. He wanted to keep people safe until the end

In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.

February 01, 2022
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  • Benazir Samad
Few vehicles drive along Pyay Road, a main avenue that's usually busy with vehicular traffic, on Tuesday, Feb. 1 in Yangon, Myanmar. Opponents of military rule in Myanmar on Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the army's seizure of power with a nationwide strike to show their strength and solidarity.

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  • Asia

First Anniversary of Myanmar military coup marked by strike and international concern

The anniversary of the February 1, 2021, coup prompted a nationwide "silent strike" by those inside the country who oppose the military's takeover.

February 01, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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  • National Security

FBI director says the threat from China is 'more brazen' than ever before

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the bureau is opening new cases to counter Chinese intelligence operations every 12 hours or so.

January 31, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People watch a TV showing an image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Monday, Jan 31.

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  • Asia

North Korea has confirmed that it tested a missile capable of striking Guam

The test-launch was confirmed Monday and is North Korea's most significant weapon launch in years. South Korean and Japanese officials condemned the launch.

January 31, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People watch a TV showing a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, the North's seventh missile test this month.

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  • Asia

North Korea tests longest-range missile since 2017

North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea, in an apparent attempt to pressure the Biden administration over long-stalled nuclear negotiations.

January 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A scene from <em>Midwives</em>: A baby whose face is adorned with thanaka — a kind of sunscreen made from wood bark.

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  • Arts & Life

Sundance prize goes to 'Midwives' — about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice

The documentary follows a Buddhist and a Muslim — who don't always get along — as they provide health care to Muslim women and children despite growing political and religious tensions in Myanmar.

January 28, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
A man wearing a hat bearing an American flag, as well as a mask to help protect against the coronavirus, walks by a security guard near lanterns decorating remnants of a city wall in Beijing on Jan. 27.

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  • Asia

China is demanding the U.S. end its 'interference' in Beijing Olympics

The Foreign Ministry said Minister Wang Yi made the demand in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday Beijing time.

January 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Veteran Chinese diplomat Qin Gang, China's ambassador to the U.S., speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep at Qin's official residence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

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  • Asia

China's ambassador to the U.S. warns of 'military conflict' over Taiwan

In his first one-on-one interview since assuming his post in Washington, D.C., last July, Ambassador Qin Gang has an unusually blunt message for the U.S.

January 28, 2022
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  • Steve Inskeep
Chinese lecturer Zhiwei Hu speaks to students in the Chinese language department at Salahaddin University in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2021.

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  • Middle East

Iraqi Kurds are learning Mandarin to take advantage of jobs from Chinese companies

Dozens of contracts signed in recent years ensure China's growing footprint, even as major Western companies, including the U.S., plot their exit.

January 28, 2022
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