By Martin Quin Pollard and Trevor Hunnicutt BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China said on Monday that U.S. high altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, drawing a swift denial from Washington. China’s accusation widened a dispute with the United States that began after the U.S. military …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Lands Department has added national security clauses to all land sale and short-term lease tender documents in the Asian financial hub, the Development Bureau said on Monday, confirming an earlier media report that had sent property stocks tumbling. The move empowers the government to disqualify bids and suspend short-term …
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By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – China should restrain its forces so that they do not commit any “provocative act”, the Philippine military said on Monday, after Manila accused China’s coast guard of using a laser to try to disrupt a resupply mission to its troops in the South China Sea. The Philippine coast guard …
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By Ju-min Park and Sakura Murakami UBE, Japan (Reuters) – On a crisp February morning, four elderly Korean men bowed their heads towards Japan’s Seto Inland Sea as the surf lapped near their shoes. They were paying respects to relatives entombed in a coal mine deep beneath their feet 80 years ago – among thousands …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will attend the Munich Security Conference this month and plans to visit several countries including Russia, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. Wang, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will also visit France, Italy …
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(This Feb.10 story has been corrected to say Ding Daoshi is a former Sootoo director, not current. ) By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into …
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By Elaine Lies and John Geddie TOKYO (Reuters) – Once again, three men are set to lead the Bank of Japan (BOJ), underscoring the hurdles women face in reaching leadership positions in a country that ranks the lowest among advanced economies for gender equality. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to nominate academic economist Kazuo …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s upper house of parliament is set to conduct confirmation hearings on government nominees for the new central bank governor and his two deputies on Feb. 27, sources told Reuters on Monday. The government is expected to formally nominate academic Kazuo Ueda as new Bank of Japan governor, along with the two …
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(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will return to work on Monday afternoon after successful sinus surgery, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said. Kishida had the surgery in a Tokyo hospital on Saturday to treat a chronic sinus condition. “We have heard that the surgery was a success, and his post-operative process is going …
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By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Monday committed about $300 million to improve life outcomes of its Aboriginal people, as the country marked 15 years since a national apology for forcibly removing Indigenous children from families under old assimilation policies. The government announced A$424 million ($293 million) would go towards “Closing the Gap”, …
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