Benjamin Haas
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Which European Companies Are Working in Xinjiang?
Foreign companies continue to conduct business in Xinjiang despite widespread evidence of human rights abuse. This list identifies 68 European companies with ties to Xinjiang ranging from building infrastructure and investing in joint ventures to selling cars and running retail shops. The companies all appear on either the Fortune Global 500 list or the Euro Stoxx 50 index. → Read More
How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
No one from the regime will stand trial over the death of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, leading to fears it will act again → Read More
'Blatantly sexist': backlash against South Korea's sex education
Students are taught from a young age that women must look pretty and men must earn a lot of money → Read More
Famine to feast: North Korean defectors awestruck by food choices in South
Hermit state has struggled to feed its people for more than two decades but those who escape across border face different challenge → Read More
North Korea: secret missile site revealed in new satellite images
Work continues on upgrading long-range missile sites, months after Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump to talk denuclearisation → Read More
Railway diplomacy: South Korean trains venture north for first time in a decade
Engineers onboard will inspect 1,200km of North Korean tracks as part of future plan to modernise regime’s network → Read More
North and South Korea make historic joint bid to recognise traditional wrestling
Two nation combine forces to list ssireum, a type of traditional wrestling, with the UN for the first time, in further sign of rapprochement → Read More
Dolce & Gabbana vanishes from Chinese retail sites amid racist ad backlash
Fallout continues after Italian fashion house ad featured a Chinese woman trying to eat spaghetti with chopsticks → Read More
Interpol's new chief: the 'bulldozer' with a taste for tackling cybercrime
Kim Jong-yang likely to refocus organisation and popularise South Korean police tactics known as ‘K-cop wave’ → Read More
Sex, lies and heated debate: Taiwan prepares to vote in gay marriage referendum
The social media myths are spreading as Taiwan gets ready to decide on marriage equality → Read More
Interpol elects South Korean as its president in blow to Russia
Kim Jong-yang defeats Russian Alexander Prokopchuk, who was opposed by US and others over fears Moscow could abuse role → Read More
SK to dissolve sex slave foundation
Shinzo Abe warns of harm to relations after Seoul says Japanese-funded initiative does not reflect opinions of wartime sex slaves → Read More
China's Oscars: Beijing cuts live coverage after winner calls for independent Taiwan
Speech by documentary filmmaker Fu Yue censored after she calls for Taiwan to be recognised as an ‘independent entity’ → Read More
Hong Kong democracy protesters plead not guilty as Umbrella movement goes on trial
Professors Chan Kin-man and Benny Tai and baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming among nine tried over 2014 protests → Read More
North Korea's Kim Jong-un supervises test of 'new ultramodern weapon'
Declaration, which did not specify what type of weapon was tested, comes as talks with the US over the North’s nuclear program stall → Read More
Student activists detained in China for supporting workers' rights
Protesters describe themselves as fervent Marxists and Maoists, presenting a unique problem for Communist party → Read More
South Korea's nascent feminist movement turns to abortion ban
Women have continued to access abortion illegally in defiance of 65-year-old law → Read More
Trump expects to meet Kim Jong-un next year as nuclear talks stall
Analysts say abrupt cancellation of high-level US-North Korea talks in New York on Thursday is Pyongyang negotiating tactic → Read More
'I still feel sad and cry': Korean victim of Japanese forced labour awaits justice
Lee Chun-sik, 94, is only survivor in a court battle for wartime damages and still hopes for his back pay → Read More
South Korea and US resume military drills ahead of nuclear talks
Joint exercise on Monday comes days before Mike Pompeo meets leading Kim Jong-un adviser in New York → Read More