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KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR, India — Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday (Aug 17) as medical professionals staged a 24-hour shutdown in protest over the rape and murder of a doctor this month in the eastern city of Kolkata.
China’s swimming team only started competing in the Olympic Games in 1988, and won its first gold medal in the women’s 100m freestyle competition in 1992. Since then, China has produced many gold medallists in swimming, with the majority coming from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, as well as Shanghai. How did China pull off this amazing feat and why have most gold medallists come from the coastal areas of the country?
NUSANTARA/BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia -- The government of Indonesia's plan to move the capital from Jakarta to Nusantara reached a milestone Saturday, as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for the first time led the country's Independence Day ceremony in the city emerging out of the Borneo jungle.
China's shipping industry is navigating starkly different waters.
TOKYO -- Financial service group Orix will invest more than 150 billion yen ($1 billion) to expand its fleet of aircraft for leasing operations, seeking to tap growing demand for planes amid a recovery in global travel.
JAKARTA -- Indonesia is experiencing a wave of construction of large outlet malls.
LOS ANGELS -- Hisae Shima does not remember much about life at a Japanese American incarceration camp nearly 80 years ago, but wants to make sure hers and her parents' names are recorded as part of this painful chapter in U.S. history.
WASHINGTON -- As Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to win the White House this fall, she will be tested on her ability to capitalize on her ties to the increasingly influential, high-income Indian American community.