(Reuters) -Shell said on Tuesday that most of the oil leak from a land-based pipeline at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Singapore on Bukom island had been cleaned up, with only small patches of light sheens around the island and Bukom Kechil remaining. The company has not received any reports of new oil sightings at …
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By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government offered rare details on Tuesday of its wartime food plan, saying it is taking monthly inventories of crucial supplies like rice and making sure they are properly stored across the island in case of a Chinese blockade. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China confirmed on Tuesday it had reached a deal with India over their disputed frontier, without elaborating on whether the pact covered the length of the border or just points where the two sides have been involved in a standoff since 2020. Relations between the world’s two most populous nations have been strained …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, has said that an investigation into what Pyongyang says are South Korean drone intrusions is ongoing, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Ed Davies)
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has dismissed Deng Xiaogang from his post as vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, a statement from the human resources ministry showed on Tuesday. (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) -Schools in some parts of India’s eastern state of Odisha were ordered to shut and tourists asked to vacate the popular beach city of Puri, as authorities braced for a severe cyclonic storm that is expected to hit later this week. Cyclone Dana, currently over the Bay of Bengal, …
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By Rozanna Latiff (Reuters) – Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of the late founder of modern Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, said on Tuesday he is now a political refugee, in the latest twist in a high-profile feud in the city-state’s most famous family. Lee and his sister Lee Wei Ling, who died on Oct. …
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By Subrata Nag Choudhury KOLKATA (Reuters) -Junior doctors in India’s eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim’s parents. Protesters also met the chief minister of the opposition-led state, which …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s National Health Commission (NHC) published its first set of guidelines to standardise the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, with more than half of China’s adults already overweight and obese, and the rate expected to keep rising. The guidelines, made public on Oct 17, come as China experiences an upward morbidity …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that live fire Chinese drills in a province facing the island are part of routine annual drills but also possibly part of China’s “deterrence effect” in the waters of the Taiwan Strait. China’s Maritime Safety Administration, in a notice late Monday, said an area around Niushan …
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