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By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Shrugging off his low rating in opinion polls, Philippine politician and former boxing star Manny Pacquiao says his impoverished roots make him the best person to be president, as he warned voters to avoid corruption-tainted candidates. Pacquiao questioned why people supported Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday after a relative she previously had a meal with at her residence was confirmed to be infected, but her public events will all be cancelled until April 14, her office said. Taiwan has been dealing with a comparatively small rise in domestic …

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By Fabian Hamacher and Hyonhee Shin TAIPEI/SEOUL (Reuters) – Taiwan has recovered two bodies after a ship carrying six South Koreans went missing in the Taiwan Strait, and search and rescue operations are under way, the Taiwanese and South Korean governments said on Friday. Taiwan authorities have said they received distress signals from the Kyoto …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese national has been sentenced to 29 months in prison after pleading guilty in January to conspiring to steal trade secrets from agricultural company Monsanto to benefit the Chinese government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Xiang Haitao, 44, who was employed by Monsanto and a subsidiary …

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By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to return, a decision that could spell the end of his premiership as soon as Friday. The former cricket star had moved to break up the …

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday he will continue to fight as he faces a vote to oust him, and will address the nation on Friday. The court earlier on Thursday overturned a move by Khan to block a parliamentary vote seeking to oust him. He will now have to …

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said his allies have nominated him as the next prime minister if they are able to vote out Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday. Sharif was addressing a joint press conference along with other opposition leaders who won a court case earlier on Thursday that …

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