(Reuters) – A United Nations special envoy has urged Southeast Asian countries to support international efforts to engage all sides in the crisis in army-ruled Myanmar, days after a top regional leader travelled there to meet its junta chief. Noeleen Heyzer, the secretary-general’s special envoy on Myanmar, held virtual talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun …
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By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – The first person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law and jailed for nine years last July has dropped his decision to appeal, his lawyer said on Thursday. Former waiter, Tong Ying-kit, 24, was found guilty of terrorist activities and inciting secession after driving his motorcycle into three …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s western prefecture of Osaka expects to record about 2,400 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, local media cited its governor, Hirofumi Yoshimura, as saying. The prefecture had 1,711 cases on Wednesday. (Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States is pushing the United Nations Security Council to impose more sanctions on North Korea following a series of North Korean missile launches, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Wednesday. “The U.S. is proposing U.N. sanctions following North Korea’s six ballistic missile …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The northeastern Chinese city of Dalian detected one COVID-19 infection of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, state television said in a report late on Wednesday. The virus detected in the infected individual, who arrived in Dalian from the northern city of Tianjin, was highly similar to the Omicron virus …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Anand Katakam NEW DELHI(Reuters) – China has accelerated settlement-building along its disputed border with Bhutan, with more than 200 structures, including two-storey buildings, under construction in six locations, according to satellite image analysis conducted for Reuters. The images and analysis supplied to Reuters by U.S. data analytics firm HawkEye 360, which …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Wednesday criticized China’s decision to cancel a growing number of flights from the United States to China because of passengers who later tested positive for COVID-19 and warned it could take action in response. “China’s actions are inconsistent with its obligations under the U.S.-China Air Transport …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia kicked off its COVID-19 booster programme for the general public on Wednesday, as the world’s fourth-most-populous nation hit an almost three-month high in cases amid the rise of the Omicron variant. Elderly and immunocompromised residents, who are being prioritised in the programme, queued up at local health centres to boost their …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese port city of Tianjin began a new round of testing of its 14 million residents on Wednesday to contain the Omicron variant, as analysts warned of the growing economic costs to China of curbs to extinguish clusters of coronavirus infections. Japanese automaker Toyota said operations at its joint-venture in Tianjin, which …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ election agency on Wednesday said it had tapped law enforcers and information security experts to look into a news report that said hackers had compromised its systems, but insisted no data beach had occurred. The Manila Bulletin newspaper on Monday reported a suspected breach on election servers and that hackers …
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