PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Cambodia’s longtime ruling party voted to endorse Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son as “future prime minister” on Friday but did not specify when he might succeed his father, who has been in power for more than three decades. In one of the world’s longest premierships, Hun Sen, 69, has overseen a …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said on Friday, in the latest escalation of violence that has sent hundreds fleeing into Thailand. The Karen National Union (KNU) said the military launched at least two airstrikes and fired some artillery rounds on …
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By Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will not send a government delegation to February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, it said on Friday, a move likely to deepen tension with China. The decision follows a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the Games over concerns about human rights in China, although Japan has avoided explicitly …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s parliament will begin its annual session on March 5 next year in Beijing, the capital, state television said on Friday. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to the largely rubber-stamp parliament, will meet the previous day, China Central Television said. (Reporting by Stella Qiu, Cheng Leng and Ryan …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand reported on Friday its first domestic cluster of coronavirus infections from the Omicron variant in Kalasin province in northeastern Thailand, officials said. “From the Kalasin cluster, there are 21 new infections,” said country’s COVID-19 taskforce spokeswoman Apisamai Srirangsan. The infections stem from a couple who travelled from Belgium through the country’s …
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By Amira Karaoud and Mary Milliken BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Reuters) – After exhausting journeys that took them from Kabul to Qatar to European cities to U.S. military bases, Afghan families fleeing the Taliban alighted in Kentucky, in a small city well versed in receiving refugees. Bowling Green has welcomed waves of refugees over four decades, …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Four infections with the Omicron variant of coronavirus have been confirmed in the Japanese capital, its governor, Yuriko Koike, said on Friday. One was in a person who had not travelled overseas and was a case of suspected community transmission, she added. (Reporting by Rocky Swift; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan has agreed to buy a further 18 million doses of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Friday, as it looks to speed up a booster programme that has covered just 0.3% of the population so far. As concerns grow about the increasing spread of the Omicron …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam aims to vaccinate all of its adult population with a coronavirus booster shot by the end of the first quarter of next year, the health ministry said on Friday. The Southeast Asian country has seen a surge in daily infections since it lifted most of its movement restrictions in October, but …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -China will send police officers to the Solomon Islands to help train its police force, the Pacific island nation said on Thursday, after rioting last month sparked by the country’s 2019 switch of diplomatic relations to Beijing from Taiwan. The unrest, in which dozens of buildings were burnt down, arose after the decision …
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