By Sarah Wu and Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Days away from Taiwan’s National Day, a long line of people snakes out of Chang Lao-wang’s restaurant, where the Chinese civil war refugee displays his ardent love for Taiwan’s flag while serving up Yunnan rice noodles to the lunchtime crowd. Chang has hung 30,000 flags …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – The victims of a mass shooting at a daycare centre in Thailand included children as young as 2 years old, a local police official said on Thursday. Chakkraphat Wichitvaidya, superintendent of Na Klang police station, also told Thai Rath TV that the gunman had been discharged from the police force last year. …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A mass shooting on Thursday at a daycare centre that killed at least 34 people, including 22 children, was a shocking incident, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, sending condolences to the families of the victims. On his Facebook page, Prayuth ordered all agencies to urgently treat the wounded. (Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng …
By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The prospect of an early election in Malaysia loomed as Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said he could propose a date for the dissolution of parliament during a regular meeting with the country’s monarch on Thursday, state media reported. An election is not due until September …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese documentary filmmaker to 10 years in prison for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Toru Kubota, 26, was arrested in July at a protest in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon. At the time, it was reported …
By Johan Ahlander, Ludwig Burger and Marie Mannes STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology. The field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry has …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – The president of Palau said on Thursday that his small Pacific island nation is committed to supporting Taiwan despite “mounting aggressions”, offering his strong backing at a time Beijing is ramping up pressure against Taipei in the region. The Pacific is the site of a diplomatic tug-of-war between Beijing and Washington, and …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told his Australian counterpart on Thursday he would not do anything that undermined Pacific security and would not allow military bases in his country under a security deal with China, media reported. Sogavare met his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in a brief visit to Canberra, and …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said he will propose a date for parliament dissolution to the king if he has the opportunity in Thursday’s meeting with the monarch, state news agency Bernama reported. Ismail will have a “routine meeting” with the king on Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson said earlier. (Reporting …
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By Josh Smith and David Brunnstrom SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Between long-range missile launches and the looming prospect of new nuclear tests, this year has seen North Korea return to weapons activities not seen since the days of “fire and fury” in 2017. A key difference: despite the “fire” from North Korea this time around, there …
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