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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China agreed to redouble efforts to ensure complete disengagement on the contested Himalayan frontier, New Delhi said on Thursday after India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Russia. “Both sides agreed to work with urgency and redouble their efforts to realize complete disengagement in …

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(Reuters) – “Friendly” countries have helped Pakistan to meet requirements necessary to secure a bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday. Islamabad had been working on implementing conditions from the IMF to complete a $7 billion, 37-month loan programme agreed in July, which Pakistan hopes will be its …

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(Reuters) – India’s economic relationship with neighbour China has been very “unfair” and “imbalanced”, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Thursday. Jaishankar, speaking at an event in Geneva, also said about 75% of the “disengagement” problems at India’s long and mountainous border with China had been sorted out. (Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by …

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By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand deployed military special forces in the northern province of Chiang Rai on Thursday after flooding marooned thousands that authorities are trying to reach with boats and helicopters. At least 33 people have died across Thailand since mid-August from a spate of rain-related incidents including landslides, …

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By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will from Thursday spend the final weeks of his term in the country’s planned new capital, Nusantara, amid doubts about the continued pace of development of his flagship $32 billion megaproject. The massive infrastructure undertaking on the island of Borneo has suffered a series of …

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By Chayut Setboonsarng and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Thursday outlined her government’s policy agenda to parliament, headlined by plans to give away 450 billion baht ($13.4 billion) in handouts to jumpstart Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy. Political newcomer Paetongtarn’s cabinet was sworn in this month, after parliament elected her Thailand’s …

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