By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Veteran Pan Cheng-fa says he clearly remembers fighting for China against the Japanese in World War Two, but gets agitated when asked about the role of communist forces who at the time were in an uneasy alliance with his republican government. “We gave them weapons, equipment – we strengthened them,” …
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(Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalised on Saturday, local media reported, a day after his arrest on allegations that he misused public funds while in office. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the South Asian island nation during a devastating economic crisis, was arrested and taken into custody on Friday, police said. The …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the firing of new air defence missiles to test their combat capability, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. The report came ahead of the summit on Monday between U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korea President Lee Jae Myung. Earlier this month, Kim condemned the U.S.-South …
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(Reuters) -Bloomberg said on Saturday it was working to resolve the situation of a correspondent in Hong Kong whose visa renewal application was turned down by authorities in the Asian financial hub. Hong Kong declined to extend the visa of Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins without explanation, according to a post from the Hong Kong …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -A referendum to push for the re-opening of Taiwan’s last nuclear plant failed on Saturday to reach the legal threshold to be valid, though the president said the island could return to the technology in the future if safety standards improve. The plebiscite, backed by the opposition, asked whether the …
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By Tim Kelly and Joyce Lee TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung agreed on Saturday to closer security and economic ties ahead of Lee’s planned summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. On his first official visit to Japan since taking office in June, Lee met …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A 7-km (4-mile) lake in northern Pakistan, created by a mountain mudslide, is threatening to burst and unleash potentially “catastrophic” floods downstream, officials warned on Saturday. The mud flow descended into the main Ghizer River channel and blocked it completely on Friday, creating the lake in Gilgit Baltistan province, the National Disaster …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The British government on Friday extended the deadline until October to decide on whether to approve China’s plans to build the largest embassy in Europe in London after Beijing refused to fully explain why the plans contained blacked out areas. China’s plans to build a new embassy on the site …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Saturday that the South Korean military fired warning shots on Tuesday in the border area between the two Koreas, and called it a deliberate provocation, according to state media KCNA. North Korea also said that warning broadcasts from the South Korean military in the border region were increasing. Since …
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By David Brunnstrom, Idrees Ali and Ju-min Park WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -When South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets U.S. President Donald Trump next week for their first summit, he will be asked to pay more for the upkeep of American troops on the peninsula during talks set to be dominated by security issues and China. …
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