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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Arata Yamamoto |Peter Guo
By , , and TOKYO — Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off on Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4-1 against the Chicago Cubs in the first of a two-game series at Tokyo Dome, a 55,000-seat indoor stadium in the Japanese capital, as America’s pastime seeks a wider international audience.
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2 months ago | 
nbcnews.com | Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang
HONG KONG — China is recruiting for a planetary defense force to combat the threat of asteroids colliding with Earth. The successful candidates will be required to research tasks related to near-Earth asteroid monitoring and early-warning systems, according to the job description for the three positions, among 16posted last week by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), which oversees the country’s space activities.
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2 months ago | 
nbcnews.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang |Mithil Aggarwal
BEIJING — For women in China, it may feel as if there is little to laugh about these days. The world’s second-largest economy is struggling to recover from the pandemic, and the government is cracking down on feminist activism as it encourages women to embrace “traditional” female roles as wives and mothers.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Lexi Tian |Peter Guo
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Lexi Tian |Peter Guo
SHANGHAI — If Donald Trump is elected Tuesday, the former president has said he may be advised by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has campaigned for him vigorously in recent weeks and donated more than $100 million to his campaign. That, perhaps more than the presidential race itself, is being closely watched here in China, where the world’s richest man has extensive business interests and the appearance of a tight relationship with Chinese officials.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Jett |Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang
HONG KONG — It was one of those events made for the Olympics: China’s Pan Zhanle dominated the men’s 100-meter freestyle, smashing his own world record to finish more than a full second ahead of the silver and bronze medal winners. "It was a magical moment," Pan, 19, told reporters afterward.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jennifer Jett |Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu
YA’AN, China — The first new giant pandas to arrive in the United States in more than two decades are traveling to San Diego from China as Beijing resumes using the black-and-white bears as a tool of diplomacy. A farewell ceremony Wednesday near the Bifengxia Giant Panda Base in China’s southwestern Sichuan province was attended by representatives of both China and the U.S., including San Diego Zoo officials and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang |Jeremy Zhu
BEIJING — On the banks of a river on the outskirts of China’s teeming capital, a sign on a blocked pathway gently warned people away: “It’s the black swan’s incubation period, please quietly go around.”From a platform above, visitors at the Qinghe Waterfront Green Corridor watched as the swan guarded several eggs in her nest, getting prickly with the occasional duck that wandered too close. Other birds swam nearby as the sun sparkled on the water from a clear blue sky.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Jennifer Jett |Dawn Liu |Rae Wang
June 23, 2024, 9:39 AM UTCBEIJING — On the banks of a river on the outskirts of China’s teeming capital, a sign on a blocked pathway gently warned people away: “It’s the black swan’s incubation period, please quietly go around.”From a platform above, visitors at the Qinghe Waterfront Green Corridor watched as the swan guarded several eggs in her nest, getting prickly with the occasional duck that wandered too close. Other birds swam nearby as the sun sparkled on the water from a clear blue sky.
