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A female North Korean soldier uses her mobile phone next to a sentry on the banks of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong June 1, 2014. (Photo: Jacky Chen/Reuters) SEOUL (Reuters) - Foreigners in North Korea no longer have access to the country's 3G network, the country's... 

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang demanded local governments be more careful in providing aid services. (Photo: Getty Images) BEIJING — Several local Chinese officials were fired or suspended following the suicides of four siblings, aged 5 to 13, who were abandoned by their parents and neglected by government workers in one of China’s... 

MERS virus (14 Jun) - INFECTIONS with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) increased to 145 Sunday as seven more cases were added, while the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul decided to suspend operations on worries about further MERS spread within the hospital. Among the new cases were four patients contracting the virus...