By Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE – Singapore used an internal security law against two teenagers separately, one over plans to attack mosques and the other for wanting to fight in Syria alongside Islamic State militants, authorities said on Wednesday. The 17-year-old male was detained and subscribed to far-right extremist ideology, seeing himself as an “East …
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, whose country was struck by a devastating earthquake last week, will attend a regional summit of mostly South Asian leaders in Bangkok on Friday, Thailand’s foreign ministry said. The trip will be a rare visit by Min Aung Hlaing to a Southeast Asian country since seizing power …
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By Gerry Doyle SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korea’s new class of warship can accommodate dozens of vertical launch cells to carry missiles its military has already developed, analysis of a satellite image showed, a step that would give its navy more punch and create an export opportunity. Little is known about the unnamed class of …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s new police commissioner played down the impact of recent U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials, while pledging to do more to safeguard national security in the financial hub. The U.S. sanctioned six senior Chinese and Hong Kong officials for “transnational repression” and further eroding …
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By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s interim leader called on the nation on Wednesday to calmly accept the decision from the Constitutional Court on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, as police ramped up security around the court ahead of the ruling on April 4. At a ministerial meeting on …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The death toll in the Myanmar earthquake has reached 2,886, with 4,639 injured and 373 missing, China’s state-run Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing Myanmar’s state administration council information team. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s embassy in Australia rejected reports linking the transit of a Chinese research vessel south of Australia with the country’s upcoming federal elections, saying the vessel’s passage had “nothing to do with China-Australia relations”. The recent activities of the vessel are part of routine scientific research and the route was set in accordance with the international waterway, the embassy said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s parliament on Wednesday formally introduced a motion to impeach Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok. National Assembly speaker Woo Won-shik said the parliament would vote within 24-72 hours after the motion was submitted. (Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Kim Coghill)
(Reuters) – China launched its latest round of war games around Taiwan on Tuesday, saying on Wednesday they were code-named “Strait Thunder-2025” and were a “stern warning” against separatism. The People’s Republic of China has claimed Taiwan through its “one China” policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Republic of China government to …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that in the previous 24 hours it had detected 76 Chinese military aircraft and 15 Chinese military ships operating around Taiwan. China on Tuesday began its latest round of war games near the island. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
