KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s coronavirus recovery council on Tuesday said it has recommended a full reopening of borders as early as March 1 without mandatory quarantine for travellers, as part of plans to accelerate economic recovery. The Southeast Asian nation has shut its borders since March 2020 and froze the entry of foreign workers …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong will limit public gatherings to two people and close sites such as churches and hair salons, leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday, as the Asian financial hub battles a growing coronavirus outbreak that has caused record infections. Existing social distancing measures will be extended to Feb. 24, Lam told …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the latest planned U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, saying it seriously undermined the country’s security and sovereignty. China will take robust measures to uphold its own security interests, spokesman Zhao Lijian told a daily news briefing. (Reporting by Martin Pollard; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The major aluminium-producing Chinese city of Baise reported on Tuesday its third straight day of rising local COVID-19 infections with the outbreak in the locked-down city likely to compound worries about disruption to supplies of the metal. The city of 3.6 million in Guangxi region on the border with Vietnam recorded 64 …
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By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan said on Tuesday it would relax a ban on food imports from Japan put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, hoping to ease entry to a trans-Pacific trade pact and deepen ties at a time when both governments are worried by China. Japan, like …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s COVID-19 hospital cases and people admitted to intensive care continued to trend lower on Tuesday as authorities urged people to get their vaccine boosters to prevent serious illness and deaths from the coronavirus. Fuelled by the Omicron strain, Australia’s total infections have now touched nearly 2.4 million, almost 10% of the …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday apologised to a political staffer who said she was raped in a ministerial office, after a review found half of parliamentary staff had experienced harassment, bullying or sexual assault. The apology marked a rocky start to an election year for Morrison and …
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By Julien Pretot and Krystal Hu BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Eileen Gu got her maiden Olympics off to a dream start as the U.S. born teenager landed a tricky jump to become the first freeski Big Air champion at the Beijing Games, taking the host country to the top of the medals table on Tuesday. With …
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By Neil Jerome Morales (Reuters) – Campaigning kicked off in the Philippines on Tuesday ahead of an election on May 9 to choose a successor to President Rodrigo Duterte, who is limited to a single term, by law. Below are details about the key candidates for the presidency, starting with the current leader in poll …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – An American lawyer convicted of assaulting a plain-clothes Hong Kong police officer during anti-government protests in 2019 lost his appeal on Tuesday and was taken back to jail to serve the remainder of his sentence. Samuel Bickett, a former anti-bribery compliance director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, …
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