BEIJING (Reuters) – China will focus on expanding domestic demand and enhancing the fundamental role of consumption in economic development, the ministry of commerce said on Tuesday. The country will also continue to promote its opening up to global business, the ministry added. (Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Meg Shen; Editing by David Goodman)
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan will set up a judicial commission to investigate the killing of a well-known Pakistani journalist in a police shooting in Kenya, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday. Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Nairobi on Sunday when police opened fire on the vehicle he was …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol congratulated China’s Xi Jinping after last week’s Communist Party congress, Yoon’s office said on Tuesday. In a letter sent on Monday, Yoon told Xi he looks forward to communication and cooperation to improve relations between South Korea and China, South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement. Yoon …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – A Uyghur rights group told a London court on Tuesday that the British government has unlawfully failed to investigate the importation of cotton produced with “slave labour” in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups, is taking legal action …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities detained on Tuesday a woman carrying a gun outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, though the country’s leader was not there at the time and there were no injuries, officials said. The incident had happened at about 7 a.m. local time (0000 GMT), said a presidential official, Ali Mochtar Ngabalin. …
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By Yubaraj Sharma LALITPUR, Nepal (Reuters) – Dog lovers of Nepal honoured canines on Monday, putting bright orange garlands around their necks and indulging them with treats to celebrate a Hindu festival highlighting the loyalty of dogs to humans. At a dog shelter in Lalitpur, a city on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, volunteers, …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has revised up its carbon emission reduction targets, pledging more effective land use and better energy policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions more than its 2015 Paris Agreement commitment, a minister said on Tuesday. Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters, with much of its pollution coming from forest …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) urged Malaysia on Tuesday to stop deporting refugees back to Myanmar, saying it had received reports of hundreds of such cases over the past two months. The deportations, which included former navy officers seeking asylum, expose those sent away to danger and are a violation of the …
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By Tony Munroe and Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Xi Jinping kicks off his third leadership term with more power than ever, but a mountain of problems to tackle, from a dismal economy to his own COVID-19 policy that has backed the country into a corner, and deteriorating ties with the West. At …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expects the private sector will start to invest in the new capital city, Nusantara, in January, he said in a statement on Tuesday during a visit to the site. The new capital city will be located in the East Kalimantan province on Borneo island. (Reporting by Stefanno …
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