HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong will scrap its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from early October, more than 2-1/2 years after it was first adopted, news portal HK01 said on Thursday, citing unidentified sources. The move is set to be announced next week, it added. The city’s leader, John Lee, said this …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Former Chinese Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for accepting bribes, state media said on Thursday, as a purge of officials intensified ahead of a key Communist Party congress. Fu, 67, was handed a suspended death sentence that will be commuted to …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s position on Ukraine will continue to be “objective” and “fair”, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. China hopes that all parties will not give up on their dialogue efforts, a Chinese foreign …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan aims to end its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine for arrivals from around Oct. 13 and will ease other restrictions from next week as it continues to re-open to the outside world, the government said on Thursday. Taiwan has kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in place as large parts of the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pacific island state of Palau, which finds itself at the heart of a geostrategic struggle between the United States and China, called on Wednesday for greater U.S. support to build its infrastructure and economy. Palau and two other Pacific island states, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, are …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities have rescued 15 victims of suspected cybercrime rackets in Cambodia, its foreign ministry said, as the government steps up efforts to help hundreds of its citizens trapped by similar operations across Southeast Asia. The rescue of the victims, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, comes amid raids across …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasized in a meeting on Wednesday the importance of strengthening and modernizing their countries’ security alliance, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the White House …
By David Brunnstrom and Hyonhee Shin UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held their first one-on-one talks on Wednesday and agreed on the need to improve relations dogged by historical disputes. The meeting took place in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s cooperation with Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Chinese comments against NATO enlargement show why the Western defense alliance should regard Beijing as a security challenge, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. “The sum of all is this just increases the importance of NATO allies standing together and realizing that …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Hundreds of Filipino activists on Wednesday took to the streets to mark the 50th anniversary of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr’s declaration of martial law. Marcos Sr assumed emergency powers on September 21, 1972, commencing what many remember as one of the darkest periods in the Southeast Asian country’s history. He …
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