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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s son will resign as his aide, the premier said on Monday, after photos of the son and other relatives apparently pretending to hold a news conference at the official residence sparked an uproar. Kishida told reporters that Shotaro Kishida would step down as his secretary from Thursday, …

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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong Court on Monday rejected an application to terminate a landmark national security trial against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a case that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. Jimmy Lai, 75, is the founder of now shut pro-democracy newspaper …

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By Ananda Teresia and Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has lifted a 20-year-old ban on sea sand exports, a copy of a government regulation showed, a measure that could help land expansion projects in neighbour Singapore, but with concern among environmentalists about marine habitats. Indonesia first scrapped sea sand exports in 2003 and reaffirmed …

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By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The coast guard of the United States, Japan and the Philippines will hold trilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea this week, the first such manoeuvres between them as a time of growing concern about China’s moves in the region. The June 1 to 7 exercise in waters …

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Mongolia was the main source of northern China’s worst sandstorms in five years from January to April, and may have contributed as much as 70% of the dust floating over capital Beijing, China’s environment ministry said on Monday. Northern China is routinely hit by heavy sandstorms in the spring, with conditions worsened …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China will send three astronauts to its now fully operational space station on Tuesday as part of a crew rotation, in the fifth manned mission to the Chinese space outpost since 2021, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Monday. The spacecraft Shenzhou-16 will lift off atop a Long March 2F rocket …

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