By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong appeal court on Monday blocked jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bid to challenge in the city’s highest court a warrant obtained by national security police to scrutinise the contents of his mobile phones. Lai, 75, is the founder of the now shut pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government should not place all exports to China under supervision, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday. “We have now made a whole series of laws with which we can guarantee the security of our economy,” Scholz said at an event hosted by the BDI industry association in Berlin. It …
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By Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Singapore-based parent of Timken India has proposed to sell an 8.4% stake in the Indian bearings and power transmission products maker for up to $231 million on June 20, according to the term sheet of the deal, seen by Reuters. The floor price of the stake sale …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court on Monday charged four men with criminal damage to property at showrooms and a service centre of Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd after they were vandalised last week in the financial hub. The automakers’ offices in the special administrative region were daubed with red paint, while a …
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SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) -New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Monday he would visit China from June 25 to 30, leading a trade delegation that includes some of the country’s biggest companies. Hipkins will meet President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Qiang, and the chairman of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress Zhao Leji …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing, a State Department official said. Blinken, who is in China for his second day of meetings, met with China’s top diplomat earlier on Monday and with Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday. This is the …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia and Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX on Monday launched the country’s largest telecommunication satellite from the United States, in a $540 million project intended to link up remote corners of the archipelago to the internet. Roughly two-thirds of Indonesia’s 280 million population already use the internet, but connectivity is limited in …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Monday it would in July launch initiatives to improve Mandarin language and cultural understanding, including hiring cabin staff from mainland China, after three crew were fired over discrimination. The announcement, sent in an internal memo to staff and seen by Reuters, said all cabin crew …
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By Martin Quin Pollard (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began two days of talks in Beijing on Sunday, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Blinken’s visit, postponed after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over U.S. airspace in February, was aimed at …
By Humeyra Pamuk BEIJING (Reuters) -The U.S. secretary of state and Chinese foreign minister on Sunday held what both called candid and constructive talks on their differences from Taiwan to trade but seemed to agree on little beyond keeping the conversation going with an eventual meeting in Washington. Speaking after a 5-1/2 hour meeting followed …
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