BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) – China and the Philippines accused each other on Tuesday of dangerous manoeuvres in a hotly disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in the latest confrontation over the waterway. A Chinese coast guard vessel sped up and manoeuvred on Monday to block the navigation route of a Philippine vessel around 36 nautical …
HANOI (Reuters) – China and Vietnam expressed their support for maintaining a multilateral trade regime centered around the World Trade Organization in a joint statement issued on Tuesday at the end of a two-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit by Xi, which had been planned for months, came as Beijing faces 145% …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s general election will be held on May 3, the election commission said in a statement on Tuesday. (Reporting by Xinghui Kok, Jun Yuan Yong and Bing Hong Lok, editing by John Mair)
(Reuters) -Cambodia said on Tuesday it had arrested a number of “Chinese criminals” in late March, including individuals from Taiwan, and days later handed them over to Chinese authorities, in deportations that have angered Taipei. Taiwan’s foreign ministry said on Monday that Cambodia had sent an unknown number of Taiwanese citizens to China after they …
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KARACHI (Reuters) – A blast targeting a police truck in Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan killed three people and injured 19, broadcaster Geo reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Ariba Shahid, writing by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Tuesday he is arranging to attend the annual spring meetings held by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington next week. Kato also said he is trying to arrange bilateral meetings with his counterparts from other countries including the United States, although the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday chided China’s commerce minister for calling President Donald Trump’s tariffs a “joke” but said he still had hope for a major trade deal with Beijing, adding it would require a formula far different from trade and currency deals of the past. Bessent, speaking to Bloomberg …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi died on Monday, aged 85, his family and medical authorities reported. Abdullah became Malaysia’s fifth prime minister in 2003, following the resignation of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad after 22 years at the helm. The former premier died at 7:10 pm (1110 GMT) at the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China has announced visa restrictions on some U.S. personnel who have “behaved badly” on Tibet-related issues, its foreign ministry said on Monday. The announcement at a regular press conference came after Washington imposed additional visa restrictions two weeks ago on Chinese officials involved in policies governing foreigners’ access to Tibetan areas. The U.S. …
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HANOI (Reuters) – China and Vietnam signed dozens of cooperation deals on Monday, including on production and supply chains as well as railway cooperation, as Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Southeast Asian nation, footage of the signed documents seen by Reuters showed. The details and content of the agreements was not disclosed and it …
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