BEIJING (Reuters) – Chen Yulu, a vice head of China’s central bank, will be the president of Nankai University in the northern city of Tianjin, the university said on its website in a notice seen on Friday. Chen, 55, a vice governor of the People’s Bank of China since 2015, and an official biography shows …
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(Reuters) – The southwestern province of Sichuan, China’s biggest hydropower producer, has seen its supply capability slump due to a long drought across the Yangtze basin, stoking fears the country could suffer another devastating power shortage. Sichuan’s accounts for 30% of China’s total hydroelectric generation and it normally delivers a massive power surplus to the …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -A U.S. lawmaker on the Senate Commerce and Armed Services committees arrived in Taiwan on Thursday on the third visit by a U.S. dignitary this month, defying pressure from Beijing to halt the trips. Senator Marsha Blackburn arrived in Taiwan’s capital Taipei on board a U.S. military aircraft, live television footage from the …
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By Sakura Murakami and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will spend $1.83 million on a state funeral for slain former leader Shinzo Abe, the government said on Friday, despite growing opposition from a public angered by revelations of the ruling party’s ties to the Unification Church. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving but divisive premier, was shot and …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China still requires international passengers to take pre-departure COVID-19 tests and quarantine upon arrival, the customs office said on Friday, a day after dropping some reporting requirements for travellers clearing customs. China, which has shortened the quarantine period and removed some testing and self-isolation requirements for inbound international travellers, still has some …
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By Tom Balmforth and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – The last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is working again after being cut earlier on Thursday, the United Nations said, an outage that underlined the potential peril posed by nearby fighting. Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said earlier that fires …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit put Washington on edge, but not enough to spur an immediate sharp increase in weapons sales to the island, sources told Reuters. President Joe Biden’s administration and U.S. lawmakers stress their …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The sprawling Chinese region of Chongqing, home to several large global automakers, extended power curbs at factories as a record heatwave and drought continue to wreak economic and environmental damage throughout the country’s southwest. Industrial firms were originally ordered to restrict output from Aug. 17 until Aug. 24, but formal curbs were …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan women’s rights activists opened a library in Kabul on Wednesday, hoping to provide an oasis for women increasingly cut off from education and public life under the ruling Taliban. Since taking over Afghanistan a year ago, the Islamist Taliban have said women should not leave the home …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday that she is still aiming to release a long-anticipated report on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang by the end of her four-year mandate next week. Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has faced severe …
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