(Reuters) – South Korea’s National assembly passed a revised special counsel bill to investigate insurrection charges against President Yoon Suk Yeol, news agency Yonhap reported on Friday. (This story has been refiled to fix the typo in the headline) (Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Alex Richardson)
KARACHI (Reuters) -Pakistan launched its first home-made observation satellite on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China, Pakistan’s space agency said. The PRSC-EO1 satellite will boost Pakistan’s ability to monitor and manage natural resources, respond to disasters, and improve urban planning and agricultural development, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) …
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By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget to expand its free nutritious meals programme to reach more than a quarter of its population by year-end, the head of the agency overseeing the programme said on Friday. Dadan Hindayana said President Prabowo Subianto is considering ways to …
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By Ju-min Park, Hyunsu Yim and John Geddie SEOUL (Reuters) – As 3,000 riot police swarmed his hillside villa on Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol huddled with party loyalists, telling them that people were increasingly realising the country’s legal system had been hijacked by leftist forces. “People are now seeing how serious the …
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By Ju-min Park and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean investigators probing President Yoon Suk Yeol for alleged insurrection asked a Seoul court on Friday to extend his detention as the embattled leader again refused to be questioned. On Wednesday, Yoon became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested, in a criminal probe …
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By Shoon Naing (Reuters) – Myanmar’s electricity generation has dropped to about half the normal figure, as rebels have damaged critical transmission networks, causing lengthy blackouts in wide swathes of the South Asian nation, state media said on Friday. Natural gas shortages in the war-torn nation have also helped take production down to just 2,200 …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine navy said on Friday its ships were holding drills near a contested shoal in the South China Sea, a day after Manila and Beijing agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate despite ongoing disputes. The exercise around the Scarborough shoal, one of Asia’s most hotly contested areas, …
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(Reuters) – A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a land corruption case, his legal team said. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan, was delivered by an anti-graft court …
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By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case is the latest in a series of ups and downs for the charismatic cricket star who has been in prison for the last one-and-a-half years. Khan, 72, has been fighting dozens of cases since …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is stepping up security for tourists to restore the confidence of Chinese visitors, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Friday after an alleged kidnapping of a Chinese actor sparked concerns about the safety of travellers. Tourism is a key driver of Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, and China is the biggest single …
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