By Walid Berrazeg HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Financial markets will close and people given the day off work as Typhoon Gaemi barrelled towards Taiwan on Tuesday bringing strong winds and torrential rain, with the annual Han Kuang war games curtailed and emergency equipment readied. Gaemi, the first typhoon of the season to affect Taiwan, is expected …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A chartered flight carrying 123 Malaysians evacuated from deadly violence in Bangladesh arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Malaysia’s home minister said. Student-led protests against quotas in government jobs in Bangladesh spiralled into violence last week, with at least 147 people killed. Bangladesh’s top court subsequently agreed to scrap most quotas …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling activist has been detained in Greenland and faces possible extradition to Japan which has issued an international warrant for his arrest, the Arctic island’s police said in a statement. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd activist group and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was apprehended on Sunday when his …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russia’s cooperation with China in the Arctic was not aimed against any other country and said U.S. criticism of such work was misplaced. The Pentagon said in a report on Monday that it feared Moscow and China’s actions in the Arctic could impact regional stability, noting …
By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines gaming regulator will cancel the licenses of offshore gambling firms, most of them Chinese owned, and will work with law enforcement agencies to completely stamp out these operators, its chief said on Tuesday. President Ferdinand Marcos has given the regulator until the end of the year to …
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By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s finance minister unveiled $576 billion in spending plans in the current fiscal year on Tuesday, marginally higher than interim budget estimates, aiming to boost manufacturing and jobs in the world’s fastest growing major economy. The government will spend 2.66 trillion rupees ($32 billion) on rural development, Finance …
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By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will work towards legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday, signalling a U-turn on plans to re-criminalise the plant and another change in the government’s hazy position on cannabis. Thailand in 2022 became one of the first countries in Asia to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia and China are increasingly cooperating in the Arctic, which could impact regional stability, the U.S. military said as it released its strategy for the region on Monday. Russia has reopened hundreds of Soviet-era military sites in the Arctic, the report said. China, which describes itself as a “near-Arctic” state, also has ambitions …
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By Yukiko Toyoda TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will continue to work with the United States for peace on the Taiwan Strait regardless of who is in the White House after the November presidential election, Japan’s top government spokesperson told Reuters in an exclusive interview. The comments come after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Taiwan …
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By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang TAIPEI (Reuters) – Sirens rang out, roads emptied and people were ordered to stay indoors in Taiwan’s capital Taipei on Tuesday during an annual air-raid exercise simulating a Chinese missile attack. Sirens sounded at 1:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) for the mandatory street evacuation drills, which effectively shut towns and …
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