By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will allow a boat packed with Rohingya which had become stranded off its coast to dock in the Southeast Asian country, its security ministry said on Wednesday, after calls from aid organisations to allow the vessel to seek refuge. Local officials in Aceh, a province on …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will provide 1.4 billion ringgit ($334.93 million) in cash aid and other forms of relief for those devastated by severe floods this month, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on Wednesday. Since Dec. 17, nearly 70,000 people have been displaced while at least 48 were killed, after unusually high rainfall …
BEIJING (Reuters) -A lockdown of 13 million people in the Chinese city of Xian entered its seventh day on Wednesday, with many unable to leave their residential compounds and relying on deliveries of necessities as new COVID-19 infections persisted. Xian reported 151 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms for Tuesday, or nearly all of the …
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By Sultan Anshori GIANYAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – For Balinese souvenir shop owner I Kadek Rai Nama Rupat, the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic have been a fight for survival. The pandemic has prevented the foreign tourists that usually throng businesses like his on the Indonesian resort island from coming and rising food prices …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said on Wednesday it would shut down after police raided its office earlier in the day and arrested senior staff on suspected “seditious publication” offences. “Because of the situation, Stand News is now stopping operations,” it said in a Facebook post. “Acting Editor in …
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By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan braced for a feared rebound in coronavirus cases as the highways and airports filled with travelers at the start of New Year’s holidays on Wednesday. The governors of the metropolises of Tokyo and Osaka urged residents to keep end-of-year gatherings small, as more cases of the Omicron variant …
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(Reuters) -A senior U.N. official called on Myanmar authorities to investigate the reported killing of at least 35 civilians that opposition activists blamed on government soldiers, saying he was “horrified” at the violence. The ruling military has not commented on the killings near Mo So village in Kayah State on Friday and several calls since …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s local coronavirus cases rose for a fourth day, with the majority of infections reported by Xian, a northwestern city that has put its 13 million people under lockdown. Xian reported 175 symptomatic cases for Monday, up from the previous day’s 150. No Omicron infections have been announced yet from the more than …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s local coronavirus cases rose for a fourth day, with the majority of infections reported by Xian, a northwestern city that has put its 13 million people under lockdown. Xian reported 175 symptomatic cases for Monday, up from the previous day’s 150. No Omicron infections have been announced yet from the more than …
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By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has lifted a ban on the Boeing 737 MAX, its transport ministry said on Tuesday, three years after the crash of one of the aircraft operated by domestic carrier Lion Air with the loss of all 189 people on board. Aviation authorities around the world grounded the aircraft …
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