BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s embassy in Ukraine is operating as normal, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Monday at a daily news briefing. Washington and its European allies have been scaling back or evacuating embassy staff and urging citizens to depart immediately or avoid travel to Ukraine due to mounting fears of an invasion by …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan aims to ease its strict COVID-19 quarantine policy from next month as it needs to gradually resume normal life and re-open to the world, the government said on Monday. Since the pandemic began two years ago, Taiwan has succeeded in keeping reported cases of COVID-19 below 20,000, having enforced a blanket two-week …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua called for China to expand soybean production at a meeting on spring farm output held in Shandong province, Xinhua reported on Sunday. Hu also emphasized stabilising planted grains acreage and strengthening farmland protection, reiterating policies previously laid out by central leadership, Xinhua said. China’s top policymakers called for …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong health authorities are expected to report at least 1,530 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, setting a new record for daily infections, broadcaster TVB said, citing an unidentified source. (Reporting by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported 84 new coronavirus cases on Feb. 13, the country’s national health authority said on Monday, compared with 67 a day earlier. Of the new cases, 26 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said, compared with 28 a day earlier. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The son and namesake of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos strengthened his lead over his closest rival ahead of the presidential election in May, results of a new poll released on Sunday showed. Ferdinand Marcos Jr garnered a 44-point lead over Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo in the Jan. 19-24 survey by …
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(Corrects typo in headline) By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) – Australia said on Sunday it was evacuating its embassy in Kyiv as the situation on the Russia-Ukraine border deteriorated quickly, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling on China to not remain “chillingly silent” on the crisis. The United States and Europe stepped up their warnings of …
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By Samuel McKeith (Reuters) – Australian police have given thousands of protesters until the end of Sunday to leave occupied areas of the country’s capital, as days-long rallies continue against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Several thousand protesters remained in place at Canberra’s major showgrounds, while fewer than 100 demonstrators were gathered near the federal parliament building, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese fans of U.S. sitcom “Friends” have expressed dismay online after noticing censorship in recently released episodes of the beloved show, including of LGBT issues. Several major Chinese streaming sites, including Tencent, Baidu’s IQiyi Inc, Alibaba’s Youku, and Bilibili started showing a version of the first season of the show on Friday, …
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HANOI(Reuters) – Vietnam will remove its COVID-19 restrictions on international passenger flights with all markets starting Feb. 15, with no limitation on the number of flights, the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper reported on Sunday. The Southeast Asian country imposed tight border controls at the start of the pandemic to keep out COVID-19, with some initial …
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