By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Western media reports on China’s population being overtaken by India deliberately ignores China’s development, using the topic to “bad mouth” it and advocate decoupling, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. CCTV’s sharply worded commentary said the subtext from Western media in recent years was that China’s development was in …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit the United States next week for a summit with President Joe Biden as the allies grapple for ways to handle the challenge posed by North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile arsenal. Yoon’s April 24-29 trip will be the first state visit to …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene envoys on Afghanistan from various countries next month to try to find a unified approach to dealing with the Taliban authorities, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The closed-door meeting in Doha on May 1-2 will aim to “reinvigorate the international engagement …
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By Panu Wongcha-um PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) – Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew is going door-to-door asking people to vote for her in Thailand’s May 14 election even though she faces possible jail time on charges of sedition and defaming the king during unprecedented protests in 2020. The 30-year-old is one of more than a dozen activists …
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By Akhtar Soomro KARACHI (Reuters) – Women pedal sewing machines, deftly lining up seams and pleats as they assemble brightly coloured dresses for young girls at an orphanage in Pakistan, in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Yet as an economic crisis forces people to tighten their belts, fewer …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s military confirmed on Wednesday that three soldiers missing since a weekend ambush by rebels in the restive Papua region have been found dead, in a setback for its mission to locate a New Zealand pilot held captive by separatists. The military said the bodies of those soldiers and another earlier confirmed …
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By Oliver Denzer and Laurie Chen HAMBURG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Dazed and terrified, Yicheng Huang narrowly managed to escape being detained by police in Shanghai while attending historic protests calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 curbs that spread across numerous cities last November. The protests, unprecedented in President Xi Jinping’s decade in power, were suppressed by …
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(Reuters) – The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar will hear an appeal by deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions for corruption and violating election and state secrets laws, according to a source familiar with the matter. The 77-year-old Nobel laureate is serving 33 years in prison after convictions in more than a …
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By Muvija M and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday that any intimidation on British soil of foreign nationals by China or other states was unacceptable and that it was investigating the matter, responding to a media report about a so-called secret Chinese police station. Britain has previously said that reports of undeclared …
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By Alexander Ratz BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday described parts of her recent trip to China as “more than shocking” and said Beijing was increasingly becoming a systemic rival more than a trade partner and competitor. The blunt remarks followed Baerbock’s visit to Beijing last week where she warned that …
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