Reuters Asia Top

By Ann Wang HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan’s first domestically developed weather satellite shows its determination to develop its space industry, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, lauding the programme as a step to take the island to the stars. While Taiwan has since the 1990s had a satellite programme, called FORMOSAT, tension with China …

Taiwan flags space ambition with domestically developed weather satellite Read More »

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has raised China’s plan to take a policing role in the Pacific Islands nation of Solomon Islands in talks with Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Friday. The U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Solomon Islands’ opposition party have called for Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare …

Australia raises concern over Solomon Islands policing plan with China’s top diplomat Read More »

By Soo-hyang Choi and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea tested its latest Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media reported, saying the weapon is the core of its nuclear strike force and a warning to the United States and other adversaries. The Hwasong-18 is the North’s first ICBM to use solid propellants, which can …

North Korea says test launch was latest Hwasong-18 ICBM Read More »

By David Shepardson and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a group of senior U.S. officials whose emails were hacked earlier this year by a group Microsoft says is based in China, according to a person briefed on the matter, as fallout from the digital theft continues to …

Chinese hackers breached US Commerce chief’s emails; Blinken warns Chinese counterpart Read More »

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel this week to India for meetings with Group of 20 finance officials and Indian officials, and then on to Vietnam for bilateral talks, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. Yellen, who returned to Washington on Sunday after a visit to China, will …

Yellen to travel to India for G20 finance meeting; Vietnam for bilateral talks Read More »

By Gayatri Suroyo, David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held “candid and constructive” talks with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi on Thursday in Indonesia’s capital, an official said, the latest in a series of interactions Washington says are aimed at managing competition between the rival superpowers. In …

Blinken, Wang meet again for talks aimed at managing U.S.-China competition Read More »

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea is set to make a rare statement during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday, which was called over Pyongyang’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). North Korea requested to speak at the meeting of the 15-member body and Great Britain – as council …

North Korea to make rare statement at UN Security Council Read More »

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union agreed on Thursday to remove restrictions on Japanese food imports, imposed after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, with the hope that Japan will ease its controls on EU farm produce. The EU has required pre-export testing of food products for radioactivity since an earthquake and tsunami wrecked …

EU removes post-Fukushima curbs on Japan food imports Read More »