By Ann Wang and I-Hwa Cheng PINGTUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Even before last week’s visit to Taiwan by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fish farmer Chen Sheng-You was on the lookout for new business, with trade curbs cutting him off from his major source of revenue – China. Amid simmering tension between …
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By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he declined to answer questions during an appearance before New York state’s attorney general in a civil investigation into his family’s business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump had fought …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Hyeyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Using a plastic bowl, Ha In-sik bailed water out of his lower ground apartment in the low-income housing district of Sillim in southwestern Seoul on Wednesday, where flooding caused by torrential rain forced his family to sleep at a nearby park. The 50-year-old man, along with …
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By Alasdair Pal and Santhush Fernando KUDAMADUWELLA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – As anarchy gripped the Sri Lankan city of Colombo in May, Meenu Mekala and Nirosh Ravindra gambled their family’s life savings on a two-week, 4,700-km voyage aboard a rusting trawler with their two young sons. The decision ended in ruin. Meenu, a Buddhist, and …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the United States could not allow China to normalize the new level of pressure on Taiwan it asserted with days of military drills following her visit to the Chinese-claimed island. “What we saw with China is that …
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By Martin Quin Pollard and Yimou Lee BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China’s military has “completed various tasks” around Taiwan but will conduct regular patrols, it said on Wednesday, potentially signalling an end to days of war games but also that Beijing will keep up its pressure on the island. Furious at a visit to Taipei last week …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 hit northern Japan early on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Soya region of the northern island of Hokkaido, and at a depth of 3 kilometres, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Reliance (NIED) …
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By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former workers at Malaysian rubber glove maker Brightway Holdings filed a lawsuit in the United States against Kimberly-Clark Corp and Ansell Ltd, accusing them of “knowingly profiting” from the alleged use of forced labour at the supplier, according to the complaint seen by Reuters. The workers – all …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A close aide to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and a local media house will face sedition charges, accused of inciting mutiny in the powerful military, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday. The charges were related to comments made by Khan adviser Shahbaz Gill and aired on …
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By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, dropping some ministers with links to the Unification Church after a growing backlash over the ruling party’s ties to the controversial group led to a slump in public support. Kishida unveiled his new team in a shake-up …
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