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SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Cook Islands said on Saturday that it signed a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China, a move expected to raise concerns in New Zealand with which it has constitutional ties. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed the deal in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang …

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By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te pledged on Friday to talk with the United States about President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry and to increase U.S. investment and buy more from the country, while also spending more on defence. Trump spoke critically about Taiwan on Thursday, saying …

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By Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration may not support Intel’s U.S. chip factories being operated by a foreign entity, a White House official told Reuters. The comment was in response to a Bloomberg report that Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s biggest chipmaker, was considering taking a controlling stake in Intel’s factories at Trump’s request. …

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By Joyce Lee and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – Six people have died in a fire in a hotel resort construction site in South Korea’s port city of Busan, according to the city’s fire agency, with a helicopter used to pluck some 14 people to safety after they had taken refuge on a rooftop. Around …

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QUETTA (Reuters) -A bomb targeting a vehicle carrying coal miners in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 11 people and wounded six others, local officials said on Friday. The truck had brought the workers to a mine in the Harnai area of Balochistan province, where Pakistan is battling a separatist insurgency. “An improvised explosive device was …

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