JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian police fired tear gas and deployed water cannon on Monday during a protest by students in the capital Jakarta, a Reuters witness said. Students had marched to the parliamentary building to protest against high cooking oil prices and after speculation that President Joko Widodo intended to postpone elections due to take …
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By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s financial centre of Shanghai will start easing lockdown in some areas from Monday, despite reporting a record of more than 25,000 new COVID-19 infections, as authorities strive to get the city moving again after more than two weeks. Pressure has been mounting on authorities in China’s most populous …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has cancelled the purchase of about 40 million Astrazeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine doses it agreed to buy last year, a health ministry official said in parliament on Monday. The contract allowed the government to cancel a portion of the supply if it was unneeded, the official said in response to lawmakers’ …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has ordered 700,000 units of Pfizer Inc’s anti-viral COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, its health minister said on Monday, amid a steady increase in the number of infections as the government pledges to gradually reopen its borders. Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to strict and early control measures. But …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai’s Jinshan district has published a list of residential units that will be allowed to ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions after reporting no new transmissions for 14 days, it said on its official Weibo microblogging channel on Monday. Jinshan was part of the first batch of Shanghai districts to publish the details of …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s weather bureau said on Monday the La Nina phenomenon was continuing and kept the chance that it would end during the northern hemisphere spring at 40%, unchanged from last month. It also repeated that there was a 70% chance of normal weather patterns returning in summer. A La Nina weather event …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country needs to be independent in seeds to achieve food security, state media reported on Monday, reiterating growing concerns about China’s reliance on imports of food. Xi made the remarks on Sunday while visiting the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in the southern island of Hainan, a major …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will begin talks with Russia on Monday to negotiate the quota of salmon and trout Japan can catch this year, the government said, after ties soured over the Ukraine crisis, delaying the annual exercise. A decades-old pact provides for the talks on the amount of Russian-born salmon and trout that Japan …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military conducted air strikes on Sunday targeting ethnic rebels in Karen state, as fresh fighting broke out for control of the town of Lay Kay Kaw near the Thai border, according to a spokesman at the rebel group and media reports. Thousands of residents in Lay Kay Kaw, which is only about …
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By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea praised Kim Jong Un’s leadership in developing nuclear weapons, touted his political achievements, and unveiled new portraits and exhibitions to celebrate his 10 years in charge of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK). Kim is considered to have assumed power when he was named supreme commander …
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