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Tropical storm Kajiki kills five, leaves seven missing in northern Thailand

28 Aug 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -At least five people have been killed and seven remain missing after heavy rains and landslides brought on by tropical storm Kajiki swept across northern Thailand, the Thai disaster agency said Thursday.  Kajiki made landfall as a typhoon in Vietnam earlier this week, killing seven people, inundating more than 10,000 homes and offices …

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Singapore to impose harsher penalties on drug-laced vapes from September

28 Aug 2025

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore will take a harder stance against drug-laced vapes from September as it changes the classification of anaesthetic agent etomidate from a poison to a drug, the government announced on Thursday. Users of vapes laced with the substance will face a fine and mandatory rehabilitation of up to six months instead of just …

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Japan hails ‘unprecedented’ security ties as British aircraft carrier visits Tokyo

28 Aug 2025

TOKYO (Reuters) -Security cooperation between Japan and Britain has reached an “unprecedented” level, Japan’s defence minister said on Thursday, as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier sailed into Tokyo on a goodwill visit. “Japan and the UK have been steadily enhancing cooperation as each other’s closest security partners in Asia and Europe,” Defence Minister Gen Nakatani …

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Myanmar’s military chief to visit China to attend SCO summit, state media says

28 Aug 2025

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Myanmar’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing will visit China to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, state media said on Thursday, ahead of the war-torn country’s first election in nearly five years, which has been backed by Beijing. Myanmar has been in chaos since the military ousted the democratically elected government …

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Hong Kong wraps up pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai’s security trial

28 Aug 2025

By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong court said it will deliver its verdict in media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s national security trial at a later date, after closing submissions concluded on Thursday, in a case that has drawn global attention as a test of the rule of law in the Chinese-ruled financial …

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North Korea’s Kim says stronger special operation force is important, state media reports

28 Aug 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said strengthening the special operation forces and specialised snipers was important in building up armed forces, speaking during his visit to a special operation training base, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. “It is an important task for building up our armed forces to drastically strengthen the …

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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes north-western Mongolia, GFZ says

28 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck north-western Mongolia on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Hegseth says Chinese nationals no longer service Pentagon cloud

28 Aug 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the Pentagon has issued a formal letter of concern after learning that Microsoft was using Chinese nationals to service Pentagon cloud environments, which he described as “a breach of trust.” “We’re requiring a third-party audit of Microsoft’s digital escorts program, including the code and the …

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