By Chantha Lach PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as part of an ongoing programme to revive a species under threat from poaching and habitat loss. The nine-month-old storks – a male and a female – were fitted with GPS …
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By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s coast guard launched an investigation on Thursday into a ferry that ran aground overnight, arresting the first officer and an Indonesian crew member for suspected gross negligence, officers said. The two were at the helm of the vessel and are suspected of waiting too …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck Seram, Indonesia, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Thursday. The quake was at a depth of 136 kilometers (84.51 miles) GFZ said. (Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
By John Geddie, Tim Kelly and Mariko Katsumura TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sparked a diplomatic spat with China over remarks last week that a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically-ruled Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo. Until now, Japanese leaders have avoided mentioning Taiwan when publicly discussing such scenarios, maintaining a …
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MANILA (Reuters) -A Philippine trial court has sentenced a former mayor accused of having ties to Chinese criminal syndicates to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of human trafficking, a government anti-crime agency said on Thursday. Alice Guo ran for mayor in Bamban, an agricultural town north of the capital Manila, as a Filipino citizen, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -China has notified South Korea that it would be postponing a trilateral meeting of culture ministers with Japan scheduled for this month, South Korea’s culture ministry said on Thursday. China did not give a reason for the postponement. Beijing and Tokyo have been locked in an escalating diplomat dispute following a comment by …
By Ruma Paul and Sethuraman N R DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Bangladesh High Court on Wednesday halted arbitration proceedings between the country’s power development board and India’s Adani Power in Singapore on disputes around power supply payments. The company, led by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, has been at loggerheads with the Bangladesh Power Development Board …
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By Heekyong Yang and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -All 267 people on board a South Korean passenger ferry that ran aground off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday were rescued, in an incident that revived memories of the major ferry disaster in 2014 in which 300 people died. Passengers and crew were …
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By Aditya Kalra and Greg Torode NEW DELHI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Air India is lobbying the Indian government to convince China to let it use a sensitive military airspace zone in Xinjiang to shorten routes as the financial toll from a ban on Indian carriers flying over Pakistan mounts, a company document shows. The unusual request …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean passenger ferry carrying 267 passengers and crew got stranded on Wednesday after running aground off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, the coast guard said. Authorities were deploying all possible resources and carrying out a rescue operation, it said in a statement. The coast guard believed there were no …
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