BEIJING (Reuters) – China has dismissed Deng Xiaogang from his post as vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a statement from the human resources ministry showed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) -Schools in some parts of India’s eastern state of Odisha were ordered to shut and tourists asked to vacate the popular beach city of Puri, as authorities braced for a severe cyclonic storm that is expected to hit later this week. Cyclone Dana, currently over the Bay of Bengal, …
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By Rozanna Latiff (Reuters) – Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of the late founder of modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, said on Tuesday he is now a political refugee, in the latest twist in a high-profile feud in the city-state’s most famous family. Lee and his sister Lee Wei Ling, who died on Oct. …
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By Subrata Nag Choudhury KOLKATA (Reuters) -Junior doctors in India’s eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim’s parents. Protesters also met the chief minister of the opposition-led state, which …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s National Health Commission (NHC) published its first set of guidelines to standardise the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, with more than half of China’s adults already overweight and obese, and the rate expected to keep rising. The guidelines, made public on Oct 17, come as China experiences an upward morbidity …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that live fire Chinese drills in a province facing the island are part of routine annual drills but also possibly part of China’s “deterrence effect” in the waters of the Taiwan Strait. China’s Maritime Safety Administration, in a notice late Monday, said an area around Niushan …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan approved changes to the constitution on Monday, which included empowering parliament to pick the Supreme Court’s chief justice, drawing criticism from opposition parties who said it was an attempt to subvert the judiciary. Pakistan’s top court has become a battleground between the government and jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, ruling on …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s general election on Sunday will be a test for new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba, who is seeking to solidify his position atop a scandal-plagued party. His gamble to call a snap election after winning a close-fought contest last month to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could backfire in a fluid …
By Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s parliament elected on Monday army general Luong Cuong as the new state president in a widely anticipated move that is expected to bring some stability to Vietnamese politics after a turbulent phase of departures and reshuffles. Cuong, 67, takes over the role from To Lam, who was …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asia needs to increase clean energy investments to $190 billion, about five times the current level, by 2035 to achieve its climate goals, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. Ramping up energy investments needs to be accompanied by strategies to reduce emissions from the region’s relatively young fleet of coal-fired …
