SEOUL, Apr 15 (Reuters) – S.Korea imports no Iran crude oil for March and a year ago, preliminary data from Korea Customs Service showed on Friday. The world’s fifth-largest crude buyer imported a total 11.5 million tonnes of crude last month against 9.6 million tonnes imported a year ago, the data also showed. Final data …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam plans to raise its annual coal imports to 46.5 million tonnes by 2025 and to 123.7 million tonnes by 2045 from 36 million tonnes last year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Thursday. The Southeast Asian country, a regional manufacturing powerhouse, turned from a net coal exporter to a …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -G20 host Indonesia said on Thursday Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov had confirmed he plans to attend virtually next week’s meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 major economies. Indonesian finance ministry official Wempi Saputra also told a briefing that Jakarta was considering whether to invite Ukraine …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – An Afghan man was convicted by a Dutch court on Thursday of war crimes and torture for abusing political opponents at Kabul’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison in the 1980s and was sentenced to 12 years in jail. Judges said the man, 76, who had been calling himself Abdul Rafief, was actually Abdul Razaq …
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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine military and aid workers pledged on Thursday to keep searching for 103 people missing after tropical storm Megi ripped through central areas this week, burying many under landslides and killing at least 138. Megi was the first cyclone this year to hit the Philippines, an archipelago of …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – At an auspicious time early on Thursday, Dilani Jayaratne lit a small wood fire to boil a small pot of milk to mark the start of Sri Lanka’s New Year. The island nation’s Sinhala and Tamil communities usually conduct the ceremony at home. But …
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By David Kirton SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s financial hub Shanghai reported over 27,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, a new high, a day after President Xi Jinping said that the country must continue with its strict “dynamic COVID clearance” policy and pandemic control measures. Shanghai is battling China’s worst COVID-19 outbreak since the virus first emerged in …
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By Wa Lone and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) -Rubble and ashes, overlooked by a single golden pagoda, are almost all that remain of the wood and brick houses most people had built for themselves in the quiet riverside village of Bin in the Buddhist heartland of central Myanmar. Bin is one of more than 100 villages …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s top government spokesman said on Thursday that it was possible that North Korea will take further provocation action as it presses ahead with missile and nuclear programmes. “North Korea, with its back turned on the international community, has not changed its stance to carry on with nuclear and ballistic missile activity,” …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Western sanctions on Russia have disrupted normal economic and trade activities between China and Russia, China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. Some individual foreign companies have forced Chinese businesses to pick a side in the Ukraine conflict, ministry spokesperson Shu Jueting told an online news conference. China opposes these restrictions on …
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