BANGKOK (Reuters) -A Chinese actor who went missing last week near the Thai-Myanmar border has been found in Myanmar and may have been the victim of human trafficking, Thai authorities said on Tuesday. Wang Xing, 22, was reported missing in northern Thailand’s Tak province bordering Myanmar, an area known for large-scale criminal enterprises and human …
BEIJING (Reuters) – China called the United States “extremely irresponsible” for “groundlessly suspecting” there are information security risks in China’s drone systems, its commerce ministry said on Tuesday. China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes the U.S. investigating its drone systems and said it will closely monitor the situation. China also urged the U.S. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Tibet was struck with a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on Tuesday, one of the most powerful tremors in recent years, that hit the northern foothills of the Himalayas, killing at least 95 people. Tibet is a seismically active zone. It logged more than 100 earthquakes of magnitude of at least 3.0 last year. …
SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean court has re-issued a warrant to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, the country’s corruption investigation agency said on Tuesday. Investigators seeking to question him on allegations of insurrection have struggled to execute a warrant for his arrest. The head of the investigation unit, blocked by a human chain of …
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By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has agreed to roll over the payment of $2 billion due by Pakistan this month, the South Asian nation’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday. Sharif said he met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahya while he was on a …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 “white paper” demonstrations against China’s COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his former lawyer said. In the protests, people held up blank, white sheets of paper as …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a successful test of a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile (IRBM) on Monday, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, pledging to accelerate the country’s nuclear and missile capabilities. It was North Korea’s first missile launch since Nov. 5, and coincided with a visit …
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By Bing Hong Lok (Reuters) – Singapore introduced legislation on Tuesday to safeguard clans and business associations linked to racial groups against foreign interference. If passed, the Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill will allow a “competent authority” to designate such organisations as “race-based entities”. The organisations would then have to disclose foreign and anonymous donations, …
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met virtually on Monday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and raised concerns about “malicious cyber activity” carried out by Chinese state-sponsored actors, the Treasury Department said in a statement. Treasury last month reported that an unspecified number of its computers had been compromised …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Indonesia will formally join BRICS as a full member, Brazil’s government said on Monday, further expanding the group of major emerging economies that also includes Russia, India, China and South Africa. Indonesia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it welcomed the announcement and that “BRICS membership is a strategic …
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