BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai and Cambodian police raided a building in a border town and freed 215 foreigners, a senior Thai official said on Sunday, in an expansion of a regional crackdown against cyber scam centres. Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centres and …
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China notched a record 9.02 billion domestic trips during the 40-day Lunar New Year travel rush, the state Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, surpassing the 8.4 billion trips taken in the same holiday period a year earlier. The travel rush during China’s biggest holiday is often read as a barometer …
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China defence ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said on Sunday that Australian complaints over recent Chinese live-fire naval drills in international waters between Australia and New Zealand were “hyped up” and “inconsistent with the facts”. Australia Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that Beijing had failed to give satisfactory reasons for …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s defence ministry said on Saturday “military provocations” by the United States and its allies were becoming more “pronounced” under the current Trump administration, according to state media. In a statement carried by KCNA, the information office chief at the ministry, who was not named, said Washington and its “vassal forces” …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The lop-sided nature of arguably cricket’s fiercest rivalry in recent years notwithstanding, emotions in both countries will run high when bitter neighbours India and Pakistan clash in a Champions Trophy blockbuster in Dubai on Sunday. India prevailed in seven of the eight completed ODIs in the last decade against rivals they play …
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(Reuters) -New Zealand said the Chinese navy conducted a live-fire exercise in international waters near the Pacific nation on Saturday, a day after it held a similar drill between Australia and New Zealand that forced airlines to divert flights. “Reporting from the New Zealand Defence Force that the Chinese naval Task Group has advised of …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police are formally building a case against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over accusations he obstructed the execution of an arrest warrant, a police spokesperson said on Friday. A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for Yoon on December 31 in a criminal investigation accusing the suspended leader of …
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By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread to humans, Chinese researchers have reported. The virus does not enter human cells as readily as …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Hundreds of students and activists rallied in some major cities for more “Dark Indonesia” protests on Friday, opposing President Prabowo Subianto’s policies including $19 billion of spending cuts that they say undermine their support systems. Dressed in black as the sky darkened and rain started falling, the crowd gathered in streets near …
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BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, two ex-Soviet Central Asian states, said on Friday that they had resolved a decades-old border dispute that had sparked clashes between different ethnic groups that had killed over a hundred people. Top security officials from both countries signed an agreement setting down the state borders over more than 970 …
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