PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Southeast Asian heads of government on Friday issued a “warning” to Myanmar to make measurable progress on a peace plan or risk being barred from the bloc’s meetings, as social and political chaos escalates in the country. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said that after “little progress” on the five-point …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A court in Seoul on Friday approved New Zealand’s request for the extradition of a mother suspected of murdering two children whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in Auckland, leaving South Korea’s justice minister to make the final decision. The 42-year-old Korean born woman, whose name was withheld, is …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan women will no longer be allowed in parks, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s morality ministry said, in part because they had not been meeting its interpretation of Islamic attire during their visits. Mohammad Akif Muhajir, the spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, made the …
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By Ryan Woo and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Friday eased some of its heavy-handed COVID rules, including shortening quarantines by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travellers, and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases. The loosening of the rules, a day after …
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By Elaine Lies and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s justice minister resigned on Friday, becoming the second minister to leave the cabinet over a scandal in less than a month, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida struggles to stem his sliding approval rating. Kishida’s support has slumped to the 30% level in many recent polls, …
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By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping will meet his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and attend the G20 Group of nations summit in Indonesia and the APEC summit in Thailand next week, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday. The meeting with Biden, which the White House …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean police official being investigated over the deadly Halloween crush was found dead at his home in Seoul on Friday, the Yonhap news agency reported. The Oct. 29 crush killed 156 people and injured another 198, mostly in their twenties and thirties, when revellers flooded narrow alleyways …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – A beloved Japanese candy eaten by generations, so iconic it even appeared in a hit anime film, has come to the end of the line, a victim of surging raw material and energy prices. Tokyo-based Sakumaseika Co said on Wednesday that it would go out of …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Friday eased some of its COVID curbs, including shortening by two days quarantine times for close contacts of cases and for inbound travellers and scrapping a penalty on airlines that bring in infected passengers. The new rules were among the 20 measures examined at the first meeting of the new …
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed in principle to admit East Timor as the group’s 11th member, the bloc said in a statement on Friday. The half-island nation, officially called Timor Leste, will also be granted observer status at high-level ASEAN meetings, the bloc said after regional leaders …
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