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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will tighten its export controls for potential dual-use civilian-military technology to include quantum computers and advanced semiconductor equipment to fulfil its obligations to stop weapons proliferation, its economy ministry said. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Taiwan has announced successive updates to its export control regime to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from …

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Tuesday there are currently no particular changes in China’s export control measures on rare earths and other materials. Akazawa’s remarks come as Japan seeks to ease tensions with China amid an escalating dispute over Taiwan. (Reporting by Ritsuko Shimizu, Writing by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Jacqueline …

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China is ready to deepen cooperation with Russia in energy, agriculture and other investments, Premier Li Qiang said during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow on Monday. Li told Mishustin that China welcomes more agricultural and food products from Russia, according to the official news agency Xinhua. China also …

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By Rahul Trivedi BENGALURU (Reuters) -Bank Indonesia will hold its key interest rate steady again on Wednesday to limit pressure on the rupiah while it presses commercial banks to lower lending rates and assess the impact of previous rate cuts on the economy, a Reuters poll of economists showed. Last month, when BI unexpectedly paused …

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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) -Worries over the health of the U.S. consumer helped push Wall Street deep into the red on Monday, as investors also braced for Nvidia’s earnings and the resumption of key U.S. economic data releases later in the week. More on that below. In my column today I look at …

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By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan must compile a stimulus package of around $149 billion to support an economy hobbled by U.S. tariffs and weak consumption, Goushi Kataoka, a private-sector member of a key government panel, told Reuters on Monday. The proposed 23 trillion yen ($148.65 billion) in spending and tax cuts …

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By Sudarshan Varadhan BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Indonesia’s plan to retire 6.7 gigawatts of coal-fired power plant capacity by 2030 to fight climate change is at risk of failure due to stalled disbursal of funding from rich countries, the country’s top official overseeing the program told Reuters. A coalition of 10 donor nations called the Just …

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