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Major Asian stock markets were lower Tuesday after investors were reassured by trade-friendly Hillary Clinton's performance in a U.S. presidential debate with rival Donald Trump. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.5 percent to 16,426.61 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.6 percent to 23,440.18.
Now that Samsung Electronics Co.' s recall of the explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is official in the U.S., the company can start focusing on the tough job of restoring public trust.
Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachit, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama toast during an official state luncheon at the Presidential Palace in Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday. VIENTIANE, LAOS >> Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago - more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people.
A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an example of authoritarian excesses of Laos' one-party Communist government. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters he will meet with Shui Meng Ng on Thursday while Obama is visiting Laos.
Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Laos in office, touching down in Vientiane Monday for a summit of East and South East Asian leaders. Obama arrived in the capital, where the tropical rain did not prevent a large number of airport workers coming out to greet him and cheering -- before being hushed by an official.
The light was fading over Vientiane on a cool December evening when a Jeep was stopped at a traffic light. CCTV video later showed the occupant of the car being pulled out and taken away in a pickup truck, never to be seen again.
Foreign ministry official says Washington turned down Beijing's proposal to provide rolling red-carpet stairway for US leader when he arrived at Hangzhou airport for G20 summit It was Washington's decision to have US President Barack Obama disembark his plane from a small bare metal stairway instead of the usual rolling red-carpet staircase that state leaders get, a Chinese foreign ministry official has revealed. Speculations have been flying about whether China was deliberately snubbing Obama since media reports on Saturday showed the US leader exiting the Air Force One through the small stairway.
As Barack Obama's presidency nears its end, Indonesians still speak with pride of the childhood years he spent in their country, though much of the enthusiasm has faded along with the impossibly high expectations of what the first African-American president would achieve. A fan club, books, a statue, a cafe and even a movie were all part of the mania for Obama in the world's most populous Muslim nation after he was elected president in 2008.
In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian airport authorities should invest and upgrade its screening technology for passengers instead of frisking them like "common criminals", said Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents . Its president Datuk Hamzah Rahmat said he had observed such practices at Malaysian airports, which he claimed were not leaving a good impression of the country on visitors.
"The Harmful One" - Unit Chief Jack Garrett and his International Response Team travel to Thailand when three American volunteers go missing during a trek to Bangkok, and reconnect with former colleague Clara Seger , who helps them rush to gather evidence leading to the UnSub before a storm threatens to wash it away, on a rebroadcast of the series premiere of CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS, on a special night and time, Saturday, June 18 on the CBS Television Network. Gary Sinise, Alana De La Garza, Daniel Henney, Tyler James Williams and Annie Funke star.
In this combination of images made from pool video, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens as Vietnamese rapper Suboi raps during a town-hall style event for the Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative at the GEM Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Suboi rapped and asked Obama about the importance of governments promoting the arts and culture.
Boeing Co. won an $11.3 billion order from Vietnam's only private airline, dealing a blow to rival Airbus Group SE in a battle over the growing market for low-cost air travel in Asia.
She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi street-side restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam's famed "bun cha" delicacy.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan decried the totalitarian repression of the Soviet Union by calling it the “focus of evil in the modern world.” Yet in 1988 while visiting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia, Mr. Reagan felt the need to soft-pedal his rhetoric when asked by a reporter if he still considered the Soviet Union to be an “evil empire.” The president said he was referring to a “different era” when he used that term. Our elected leaders must sometimes walk diplomatic tightropes while traveling around the world.