ALMATY, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Five Chinese nationals have been killed and five more injured in Tajikistan in attacks launched from neighbouring Afghanistan over the past week, Tajik authorities and China’s embassy in the Central Asian country said on Monday. China’s embassy in Dushanbe, the capital, advised Chinese companies and personnel to urgently evacuate the …
By Mikhail Flores, Karen Lema and Laurie Chen MANILA/HONG KONG, Dec 1 (Reuters) – A Filipino domestic helper has been hailed as a hero after emerging from a deadly Hong Kong tower fire with her employer’s three-month-old baby and elderly mother. Just a day after arriving in the city, Rhodora Alcaraz, 28, found herself trapped …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is facing mounting criticism over his government’s slow response to deadly floods in the south, threatening to derail his party’s ambitions ahead of a snap election. At least 176 people have been killed by some of the heaviest flooding …
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(Corrects paragraph 1 to remove the number of Koreans detained citing the ministry, adds media report on arrests in paragraph 4) SEOUL, Dec 1 (Reuters) – South Korean nationals have been arrested in Iran on suspicion of smuggling, South Korea’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday, but declined to confirm the number of …
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By Ruma Paul and Sam Tabahriti DHAKA/LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court sentenced British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail on Monday in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land, prosecutors said. Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is …
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By Felix Light BISHKEK, Dec 1 (Reuters) – OSCE election observers said on Monday that a weekend parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan had been efficiently run, but stifled by a restrictive campaign environment and that fundamental freedoms were increasingly limited. Allies of President Sadyr Japarov won the vast majority of seats, cementing the power of the …
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By Clare Jim, James Pomfret, Donny Kwok, Antoni Slodkowski and Claire Fu HONG KONG/BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced “relatively low fire risks” after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by …
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By Ju-min Park SEOUL, Dec 1 (Reuters) – The trial of the head of South Korea’s Unification Church started on Monday, with prosecutors portraying Han Hak-ja as keen to exert political influence and accusing her of using Chanel bags to bribe former First Lady Kim Keon Hee. The case is part of a string of …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Sri Lanka were scrambling on Monday to clear roads and deliver aid to more than half a million people hit by a cyclone last week, as the death toll climbed to 355, with 366 missing, official figures showed. Cyclone Ditwah, packing strong winds and heavy …
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MOSCOW, Dec 1 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree granting visa-free access to Russia for up to 30 days for many categories of Chinese citizens, including tourists, business people, academics, artists and sports people. Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a “no limits” strategic partnership agreement days before the Kremlin …
