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DHAKA (Reuters) -Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet service Starlink launched in Bangladesh on Tuesday, as the South Asian nation steps up efforts to ensure reliable, uninterrupted access to the internet. Muhammad Yunus, who has led the government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh following weeks of violent protest last year, has said …

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By Rocky Swift and Kentaro Okasaka TOKYO (Reuters) -The company behind a new nature adventure park on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa is hoping the country’s huge tourism boom will get it off to a raring start, and that with time propel the startup further into Asia and other markets. Junglia, a 60-hectare site built …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s foreign tourist arrivals from January 1 to May 18 fell 1.75% from the same period a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday. There were about 13.4 million foreign visitors in the period, it said in a statement. China was the largest source market, with 1.83 million visitors. On Monday, the …

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(Reuters) -China’s imports of crude oil from Russia fell 12.9% in April from a year earlier, coming in at 8.07 million metric tons or 1.96 million barrels per day, Chinese customs data showed on Tuesday. Russian supply to China also declined 5.8% on a monthly basis, down from 2.08 million bpd in March. Imports from …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -Most of China’s job and economic stabilisation policies will be implemented by the end of June, and the country will make greater efforts to attract foreign capital, the spokesperson of the country’s top economic planner said on Tuesday at a press conference. China’s consumption and investment are showing steady growth while its exports …

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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Tuesday he expects any bilateral meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on exchange rates to be based on their shared view that excessive currency volatility was undesirable. “In our previous meeting, we confirmed that exchange rates should be set by markets, and …

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