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The bill would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.
Seven months after Beijing put trade restrictions on gallium, a Utah company found a major deposit of the metal.
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered.
As a top Treasury official in the George W. Bush administration, David McCormick worked to expand U.S. financial firms' access to China.
Hun Manet lamented that the truck horns have inspired “inappropriate activity" by "some people, especially youth and children, dancing on the roadside."
Oh was given an eight-month sentence suspended for two years for harassing an actor in 2017.
After the House passed a bill Wednesday to ban TikTok, the CEO said such a move would cause creators and small businesses to lose billions of dollars.
Workers at the Nomura Plating factory in Fukuyama found paw prints leading away from the vat of carcinogenic chemicals — and damning security footage.
The court, however, does not have the power to overturn the current marriage law, which has been interpreted to restrict marriage as between a man and a woman.
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, was given six months to sell the video app or face a ban, but the proposal faces bipartisan opposition in the Senate.