NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is in talks with the Philippines for development of submarine infrastructure, the Indian foreign ministry said on Tuesday, at a media briefing during Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos’s visit to India. (Reporting by Shivam Patel, writing by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh)
BEIJING (Reuters) -China will waive tuition fees for children in their final year at public kindergartens, and reduce them for eligible private schools from the next term, the government said on Tuesday, in a phased roll-out of free pre-school education. The measures came after China unveiled last week a childcare subsidy until the age of …
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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) -A former assistant to a politician for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) went on trial in a German court on Tuesday, charged with spying for China’s intelligence agency. The defendant, identified as German national Jian G. in line with German privacy rules, is suspected of having worked for a Chinese intelligence …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan recorded its highest-ever temperature of 41.8 degrees Celsius (107.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, prompting the government to advise residents to stay indoors and promise steps to ease weather-related damage to rice crops. Readings in the eastern city of Isesaki, in Gunma prefecture, surpassed the previous high of 41.2 C marked last week …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Former British prime minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that Taiwan did not deserve to be bullied by China and urged the West to build economic and political relations with Taipei in the face of Beijing’s campaign against the democratic island. Johnson is the third former British prime minister to visit Taiwan, after …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama’s directions, a Chinese Communist Party committee official for Tibet said on Tuesday. China considers the Nobel laureate Dalai Lama a separatist and wants to bring Tibetan Buddhism under its control, but the …
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DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh marks on Tuesday a year since long-serving former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the South Asian Islamic nation following student-led protests, but it is still grappling with instability. Here are key tasks ahead for the country of 173 million governed by the interim administration of Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus. DEADLY JULY …
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HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has been hit by an increasing number of outbreaks of African swine fever, with the number of infected pigs more than tripling in just two weeks, state media said on Tuesday. The country has detected 972 African swine fever outbreaks so far this year, up from 514 reported in mid-July, the Tien …
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By Kirsty Needham and Liz Lee SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) -Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday that Australia would not tolerate surveillance of its community by foreign governments, after a Chinese woman was charged with foreign interference and denied bail by a court. The woman, who has not entered a plea, appeared in court in Australia’s …
By Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty to one charge of abetting the obstruction of justice on Monday in part of a landmark case that led to the jailing of former transport minister S. Iswaran for obtaining valuable items as a public servant last year. However, both the prosecution …
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