HONG KONG (Reuters) – A gas blast accident in China’s northern port city of Tianjin has injured 23 people including three with severe burns, state-backed Tianjin Daily reported on Tuesday. The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon at an intersection in the Baodi district of the city, the newspaper reported. Authorities including the municipal emergency response …
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By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s second test launch of its domestically produced Nuri rocket successfully placed several satellites in orbit on Tuesday, officials said, taking a major step in efforts to jumpstart its space programme after a first test failed last year. The rocket lifted off from Naro Space Center …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on Tuesday for increasing power supply to avoid electricity cuts this summer, state television reported. Li, speaking during a visit to northern China’s Hebei province, encouraged companies to step up power generation and release advanced coal production capacity to secure economic activity and livelihoods, China Central Television reported. …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Legislators in Macau approved a landmark casino bill on Tuesday, the biggest reforms in more than two decades, ahead of an expected casino licence bidding process in the world’s biggest gambling hub. The changes – marking the first major reforms since casinos were first liberalised in 2002 – mean far greater …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese capital Beijing reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as of 3 p.m., a local health official said. Out of the five cases, three were already isolated for medical observation before confirmation of their infection, and two were found during community screening, Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director at Beijing Center for …
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By Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong’s British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland. Ong, 42, has been collecting colonial …
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(Reuters) – Indonesian President and current chair of the G20 Joko Widodo is due to visit Moscow later this month to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indonesia’s state news agency cited the country’s security minister as saying. This year’s meetings of the Group of 20 major economies have been overshadowed by the war …
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(Reuters) – Japan forecast a slight change in sea level on Tuesday after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands, far to the southeast of the country’s main islands. The quake was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles), the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a “tsunami forecast” – …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The second round of COP-15 talks to secure a global post-2020 biodiversity agreement will be moved from Kunming in China to Montreal, Canada as a result of uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The much delayed talks will take place from Dec. 5-17, with China …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A hotel and casino resort in the world’s biggest gambling hub of Macau was locked down by authorities with 700 people inside on Tuesday due to a coronavirus infection outbreak on the property, local broadcaster TDM reported. The lockdown comes as the Chinese special administrative region carries out a two-day mass …
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