By Yew Lun Tian and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top diplomat Wang Yi has been given back his old job as foreign minister, one he had held for almost a decade from 2013, after the shock removal of his short-lived successor. Wang, 69, is a career diplomat and fluent Japanese speaker who served …
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By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam and Israel signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, predicting it would quickly boost annual bilateral trade by nearly 50%. The agreement was signed in Israel between the two country’s trade ministers after seven years of negotiations, Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a …
(Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was removed from his post after just seven months in the job on Tuesday, bringing an end to weeks of confusion after the 57-year-old once seen as close to President Xi Jinping disappeared from public view. Qin, 57, became one of the country’s youngest foreign ministers on his appointment …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in the Chinese capital on Tuesday commenced the appeal trial for Canadian pop star Kris Wu, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, after he was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2022 for crimes including rape. The trial was not open to the public to protect the privacy of …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) -The speaker of Thailand’s parliament postponed on Tuesday a vote for the next prime minister by the two houses of the legislature, media reported, as a political deadlock drags on more than two months after a May general election. The vote was scheduled for Thursday following two unsuccessful attempts by the leader of …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhou Jiangyong, the former party chief of Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, has been sentenced to life in prison for corruption, state media reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and China agreed to resume high-level trilateral talks with South Korea that would include the countries’ leaders and top diplomats, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Tuesday. Speaking at a regular press conference, Hayashi said he and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi made the agreement on the sidelines of the Association …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s government on Tuesday ordered Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s estranged brother to correct a post on his Facebook page that it said contained falsehoods about a recent controversy over cabinet ministers renting state properties. The law ministry said in a statement Lee Hsien Yang’s post earlier this week made “untrue statements” …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Liu Guangyuan has stepped down from the Chinese foreign ministry’s commissioner post in Hong Kong, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. Liu is now the deputy director of its liaison office in Hong Kong, according to the office’s official website. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
By Ryan Woo and Yimou Lee BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvest while Taiwan suspended annual military drills as super typhoon Doksuri spiralled closer to East Asia, potentially reaching deep into China. Doksuri will likely be the most powerful typhoon to land in China so …
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