By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan will deepen military cooperation with the United States including intelligence sharing and holding joint tabletop exercises, the island’s defence ministry said in a report on Tuesday amid a heightened military threat from China. The United States is Taiwan’s most important international backer and arms supplier at a time …
By Hyunsu Yim and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China will hold a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday in the first such talks since 2023, the governments of the three East Asian nations said on Tuesday. The trilateral talks come as Seoul and Tokyo, both key U.S. allies, …
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By Michael Church HONG KONG (Reuters) – Japan will become the first nation to qualify for the 2026 World Cup on Thursday if they defeat Bahrain at Saitama Stadium as Hajime Moriyasu’s side look to continue their imperious form in Asia’s preliminaries. Three points would guarantee Japan a top-two finish in Group C and see …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police started on Tuesday providing additional security for the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, after lawmakers had warned of a potential assassination plot targeting Lee Jae-myung, the Yonhap News Agency reported. The move comes after the party had last week urged police to ramp up security for Lee …
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By Ananda Teresia and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will question hundreds of its citizens arriving in the capital on Tuesday after they were rescued from online scam compounds in Myanmar, the largest batch of arrivals in the country following a multinational crackdown on the operation. Myanmar’s Myawaddy scam centres are part of a …
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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -When South Korea’s Constitutional Court rules on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, expected in coming days, few will be watching more closely – or be watched more closely for possible rabble-rousing – than the country’s activist pro-Yoon churches. Outspoken pastors and their flocks have emerged among the conservative president’s most …
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By Alasdair Pal and Christine Chen SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday she had raised with China concerns over anonymous letters sent to Australians offering a reward for information on the whereabouts of an Australian-based Hong Kong dissident. Some residents in Melbourne received the letters late last week offering HKD$1 …
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Taiwan-based publisher detained by Chinese authorities since 2023 was convicted in February of “inciting secession” in China, Beijing said on Tuesday, prompting complaints from Taiwanese authorities that the trial had been held in secret. A Shanghai court handed Li Yanhe a conviction on February 17 in a “public sentencing”, Beijing’s Taiwan …
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(Reuters) – Japan’s six-times Olympic champion Akinori Nakayama has died at the age of 82, the Japan Gymnastics Association said on Monday. The Association said Nakayama died on March 9, with local media reporting stomach cancer as the cause of death. Nakayama helped Japan win men’s all-around team gold and also took the individual rings, …
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China’s Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, announced a slew of childcare subsidies this month and promised to “care” for new mothers by giving them a daily cup of free milk, as local provinces strive to boost the country’s flagging population. More than 20 provincial level administrations across China have started offering …
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