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By Poppy McPherson and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -As Chinese ships fired water cannons at Philippine vessels in the South China Sea in November 2021, Beijing’s then-ambassador to Manila asked Filipinos on Facebook to share their favorite things about China.  Among the hundreds of gushing responses were three from a young man named “Vince Dimaano.” …

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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -In her campaign to become Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi made a bold promise to narrow the country’s wide gender gap in politics and lift the number of women in cabinet to a par with socially progressive Nordic countries. Now that she has shattered the glass ceiling to …

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By John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) -Sanae Takaichi came out top in a male-dominated race to lead Japan’s ruling party on Saturday, putting her on course to emulate her hero, former British leader Margaret Thatcher, and become her country’s first female prime minister. The fiscal dove’s surprise victory may jolt investor confidence in one of the …

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By Tim Kelly, John Geddie and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbours. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Typhoon Matmo hit southern China on Sunday, the state broadcaster said, after flights and many events had been cancelled in the island province of Hainan, causing disruption in a peak holiday season. Matmo, which caused flooding in the Philippines last week, made landfall on the east coast of Xuwen in Guangdong province around …

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(Fixes transliteration in paragraphs 2-3) (Reuters) -China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. Oleh Aleksandrov, an official with Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Agency, told the state Ukrinform news agency, that China was passing on satellite intelligence …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) -The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia rose to 36, from 16 a day earlier, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday. Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing – mostly teenage …

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