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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Macau has locked down one of the city’s most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, after more than a dozen COVID-19 cases were found there on Tuesday, with infections spreading rapidly in the world’s biggest gambling hub. At least 16 other buildings across the special Chinese administrative region are also under restrictions with …

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MANILA (Reuters) – China’s foreign minister said on Wednesday Beijing was ready to work with new Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to help usher in what he called a “new golden era” in the countries’ relationship. That relationship “turned a new page” with the election of Marcos, said Wang Yi, who is visiting Southeast Asia …

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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s national assembly approved on Wednesday a plan to cut environment tax on fuel by half for the second time in three months as soaring energy prices put pressure on inflation, state television reported. The extended cut, which will apply from July 11 to the end of the year, aims to help …

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By Fabian Hamacher TAITUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan’s air force showed off its new locally designed and made jet trainer on Wednesday, touting the more advanced, combat-capable abilities of the aircraft that will replace aging and accident-prone existing equipment. Taiwan’s armed forces are mostly equipped by the United States, but President Tsai Ing-wen has made …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered the military on Wednesday to “promptly and sternly” retaliate in case of any North Korean provocation amid concerns the North could conduct its first nuclear test in five years. Yoon, who took office in May, presided over his first meeting with top military commanders and called …

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By Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) – An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year, with livestock traders in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation bemoaning low sales. Eid Al-Adha, known as the “Festival of Sacrifice”, is one of …

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By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) – On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts. For most of the last two years, the Fuyang Minsheng Hospital had been fully …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s major financial hub of Shanghai reported 15 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic coronavirus cases for July 5, up from 5 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases rose to 9 from 3 a day earlier, the city government said on Wednesday. None of the new cases were reported outside quarantined areas, compared …

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