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(Refiles to fix typo in headline, ‘China’ not ‘Chinese’) BEIJING (Reuters) – China will carefully implement state institutional reforms and ensure orderly operations, state media reported, citing the first cabinet meeting chaired by the new premier Li Qiang on Tuesday. Li, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, was installed as premier on Saturday during …

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By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese consumers, unshackled from COVID-19 restrictions, are returning to hotels, restaurants and some shops, but they are choosy about what they buy, disappointing hopes for an immediate post-pandemic splurge. China’s battered property market, lingering worries over job stability, and government parsimony in wages, pensions and medical …

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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday asked China to provide “easy and more generous” market access to products from the Himalayan country to help narrow its wide trade deficit with Beijing. The landlocked Himalayan nation of 30 million people has traditionally looked to India for economic support and …

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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, the latest of several weapons tests as the South and the United States conduct their largest joint military drills in years. The missiles were fired about 7:40 a.m. (2240 GMT …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will travel to Japan for talks on Thursday with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a South Korean official said, days after South Korea announced a plan to end a row between the U.S. allies over wartime forced labour. Yoon’s two-day visit to Japan from Thursday will be …

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By Joe Cash and Sophie Yu BEIJING (Reuters) – China will reopen its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in the three years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted by allowing all categories of visas to be issued from Wednesday. The removal of this last cross-border control measure imposed to guard against COVID-19 comes …

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