HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s top legislature on Friday passed a bill to strengthen the country’s food safety law, improving regulatory oversight and imposing stricter penalties for violations, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported. The amendment, which will come into effect on December 1, focuses on regulating the bulk road transportation of key liquid foods …
By Yimou Lee and Fabian Hamacher TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will issue new security guidelines next week in an updated civil defence handbook that, for the first time, will instruct citizens on what to do if they see enemy soldiers and clarifies that any claims of Taiwan’s surrender should be considered false. The handbook represents democratic …
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least nine people died when a rescue boat capsized during flood relief efforts in Pakistan, authorities said on Friday. The incident took place in a village near the historic city of Multan in eastern Punjab province on Thursday, a statement from the Punjab Disaster Management Authority said. It said the boat …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to quicken public health emergency responses by empowering individuals and allowing them to report emergencies, bypassing the government’s usual hierarchical structure. The law will take effect from November 1, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The Chinese city of Wuhan, original epicentre of the …
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TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) – The Taiwanese and Chinese foreign ministers are both visiting Europe at the same time this week, a rare alignment of schedules in the same location given Beijing’s efforts to stop Taipei from having any form of foreign diplomatic engagements. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, saying it is a …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) -The death toll in Nepal’s anti-corruption protests has jumped to 51, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Gopal Sharma, writing by Sakshi Dayal)
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, recently sailed through the Taiwan Strait and into the South China Sea – both highly sensitive waterways – as part of its sea trials and possibly ahead of its formal entry into service. The Chinese navy said in a statement on Friday that the journey …
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INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – A chartered plane carrying some 300 South Koreans, who were detained in a large-scale U.S. immigration raid at a battery project site, landed at Incheon airport on Friday, TV footage showed. Their return capped a week of intense negotiations by Seoul to win their release and bring them home after …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Farm Minister Shinjiro Koizumi intends to run in the next Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, the Sankei newspaper reported on Friday. The LDP will elect a new leader on October 4 to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in a full voting process rather than a simplified voting procedure. Koizumi, the son …
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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper on Monday published an essay about Chinese basketball it said was written by LeBron James, but a representative for the NBA star said on Thursday that the article was based on a series of interviews. The paper, better known as the mouthpiece of China’s …
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