By Twinnie Siu and Marius Zaharia HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong plans to roll out rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 to all its 7.5 million people in the near future, city leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as the increasingly isolated global financial hub tries to control a new outbreak. Lam told reporters her …
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(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Java in Indonesia on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru, Editing by Timothy Heirtage)
(Reuters) – A court in military-run Myanmar postponed a hearing in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi this week, a source with knowledge of proceedings said on Friday, after media reported the ousted leader had not been feeling well. Suu Kyi had been due in court on Thursday and Friday for hearings on corruption …
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(Corrects title of Jack Zhang in the last paragraph from restaurant deputy head to deputy director of food and beverage at hotel China World Summit Wing, Beijing which houses the Red Chamber restaurant) BEIJING (Reuters) – Diners in China turned to ready-made dishes for their annual reunion dinners on the eve of the Lunar New …
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By Neha Arora and Sumit Khanna NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s official COVID-19 death toll crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level some data analysts said was breached last year but was obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease. The country, which has the fourth-highest tally …
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By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao vowed on Friday that if elected Philippines president he would strengthen efforts to recover billions of dollars of wealth missing since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, as part his anti-graft platform. Pacquiao’s comments are a jab at rival and early …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed close cooperation in regional affairs with the new U.S. ambassador, including on North Korea and China and on global de-nuclearisation, a government spokesperson said on Friday.Chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the Japanese prime minister and the former chief of staff to U.S. President Barack Obama …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The Olympic torch relay began its final stretch on Friday through former imperial gardens and along an ancient canal, with Chinese Olympic medallist Ding Ning among those carrying the flame along a route shortened to three days because of COVID-19. Torch-bearers on a cold sunny morning ran past the bridges, pagodas and …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, continues to undergo treatment at the National Heart Institute but has been allowed to go to his home, his office said on Friday. Mahathir has been permitted to go home and return to the hospital for physiotherapy and further treatment and has been advised …
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By Simon Lewis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States warned Chinese firms on Thursday they would face consequences if they sought to evade any export controls imposed on Moscow in the event of Russia invading Ukraine. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price made the remark after China’s Foreign Ministry said China and Russia …
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