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58-Year-Old Transgender Woman Granted Long-Term Residency In Japan

Japan has issued the country’s first long-term residential visa to a transgender person, said the woman’s lawyer, Miho Kumazawa. Such visas are normally awarded to foreigners who marry a Japanese citizen but because Japan does not recognize same-sex marriages, the woman was not legally married.
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South China Sea: US To Hold War Games With South Asian Nations To Challenge Chinese 'Bullying'

The United States and 10 ASEAN members are poised to begin joint maritime naval exercises in what appears to be a response to Chinese aggression in the South China Sea and other Asian waters. Thailand and the U.S. are expected to be the co-leaders of the exercises that will begin in Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand and end in Singapore. The drills are expected to last five days.
China and the US have been embroiled in a bruising year-long trade war, and now Beijing has lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization

China lodges WTO trade complaint against US: govt

Washington's additional 15 percent tariffs affected a portion of the $300 billion in goods from China that so far had been spared -- and prompted China's complaint to the World Trade Organization
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Duterte In China, To Raise Thorny South China Sea Dispute With Xi

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in Beijing arriving late Wednesday before his scheduled bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Duterte has promised to raise the issue of a 2016 international arbitration ruling with Xi. The ruling invalidated China's claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea.

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