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By Nicoco Chan ZHUHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong and several coastal cities in China’s southern Guangdong province reopened businesses, transportation services and schools on Thursday after the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year lashed the region. Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping through the northern Philippines …

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By Yimou Lee, Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan searched on Thursday for 33 people missing after a strong typhoon flooded a lake above a small town on its remote east coast, leading to a disaster as many victims were too elderly to follow evacuation guidance to go upstairs in their homes. …

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BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand and Cambodia should scale back their military presence along their shared border and work together to de-escalate tensions, Thailand’s new foreign minister told reporters on Thursday. Formally sworn into office along with Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul a day earlier, Sihasak Phuangketkeow stressed the need to uphold the ceasefire agreed by Thailand and …

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By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung was in New York this week and met diplomatic allies on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the president of a small Pacific state and a source with knowledge of the matter. Lin’s visit came after he published an op-ed article …

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By Ananda Teresia and Yuddy Cahya Budiman Bandung, INDONESIA (Reuters) -More than 1,000 children in Indonesia’s West Java have suffered food poisoning this week from school lunches, authorities said, the latest in a series of outbreaks and another setback for the president’s multi-billion-dollar free meals programme.  The mass poisoning was reported in four areas of …

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By Fernando Cardoso and Eduardo Baptista SAO PAULO/BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu died in a plane crash late on Tuesday in the vast Brazilian wetlands of Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazilian authorities said on Wednesday. Yu, 62, gained global relevance as a landscape architect and urban planner after the Chinese government adopted …

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