Tag: Asia
Better baseball players have less chance for Olympic gold
While most Olympic events are a competition among the best, the better you are in baseball, the less of a chance you have of...
Olympic road races yield early drama for delayed Tokyo Games
The men's and women's road races kick off the cycling program at every Summer Olympics, yet the pair of races that will depart from...
$40 billion pledged at Paris conference for gender equality
PARIS — World leaders, philanthropists and organizations have pledged at least $40 billion at an international conference in Paris to boost gender equality, as...
Biden behind on global vaccine sharing, cites local hurdles
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden came up well short on his goal of delivering 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the rest of...
Coco Gauff, 17, Jennifer Brady lead US Olympic tennis team
WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff and Jennifer Brady will lead a U.S. Olympic tennis team that will go to the Tokyo Games without any...
Japan’s SoftBank says Pepper robot remains ‘alive’ and well
TOKYO — Japanese technology company SoftBank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot.
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Youth of the pandemic revisited: Hopeful, resilient, nervous
A young woman in California, newly vaccinated, flashes a smile and a peace sign as she poses for a prom photo with her pals....
Older women are the fresh faces of South Korean influencers
SEOUL, South Korea — The freshest faces among South Korean influencers are no longer the usual, 20-something celebrities. Instead, entertainment and social media are...
China’s manufacturing softens in June amid export weakness
BEIJING — Growth in China’s manufacturing activity softened in June as export demand weakened and producers struggled with supply bottlenecks, a survey showed Wednesday.
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Report: Stages of Olympic relay to be pulled off Tokyo roads
TOKYO — Some stages of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay will be pulled off the roads of the Japanese capital because of fears about...
