SEOUL (Reuters) – A fire at a suburban data centre south of Seoul damaged servers of South Korea’s major tech companies, Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. on Saturday, causing extensive disruption to the country’s dominant messenger service and internet portal. The fire at SK C&C on Saturday afternoon affected the operations of companies including Kakao …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -K-pop boy band BTS reunited on Saturday for a concert in Busan in support of South Korea’s bid to host the World Expo 2030 in the southern port city. The free concert — Titled ‘BTS <Yet To Come> in BUSAN’ — drew an audience of about 52,000 people to a stadium, according to …
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By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -China will make its COVID-19 prevention measures more scientific, accurate and effective, a spokesman for the ruling Communist Party said on Saturday, while reiterating Beijing’s stance that its pandemic approach is the right one. Beijing this week reaffirmed its commitment to a COVID policy that has prevented mass infection …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China reserves the right to use force over Taiwan as a last resort in compelling circumstances, though peaceful reunification is its first choice, a Communist Party spokesman said on Saturday. Reunification of China and Taiwan meets the interests of all, including Taiwan compatriots, Sun Yeli told a news conference in Beijing. President …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia on Saturday banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 children in Gambia from cough syrups in the Southeast Asian country as it investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in the capital Jakarta this year. Food and drug regulator BPOM also said it was investigating the …
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(Reuters) – Floods caused by torrential rain are hitting large swathes of southeast Australia, inundating hundreds of homes and forcing authorities to urge thousands of people to evacuate. Areas of three southeastern states – Victoria, New South Wales and the island state of Tasmania – are under emergency flood warnings after an intense weather system …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – General chit-chats about families and cars are how players from India and Pakistan defuse the hype that surrounds a contest between the bitter neighbours, rival captains Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam said on Saturday. Bilateral cricket between the arch-rivals remains suspended, thanks to their soured political relation, and emotions run high on …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea on Saturday warned that it would take “overwhelming military countermeasures” against what it called deliberate provocations by South Korea, as tensions remained high following the North’s ballistic missile launches in recent weeks. The warning by an unnamed spokesman of the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) came a day after it fired …
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ASTANA (Reuters) -Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, promising an end to a divisive mobilization that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers flee the country. Putin also said Russia had no plans “for now” for more …
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By Josh Arslan and Thomas Suen BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ultra-strict COVID-19 curbs are taking a toll on businesses and jobseekers as Beijing stresses again and again the need to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to the virus, to save lives, if not livelihoods. Since 2020, China has reported 5,226 COVID fatalities among its population of …
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