By Rocky Swift and Kyung Hoon Kim TOKYO (Reuters) – The gentle lilt of a flute fills a cramped second-storey space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake. The bacteria in the 670-litre (147-gallon) tank will take more than two weeks to turn its contents of rice and water into Japan’s traditional …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand recorded 19.6 million foreign tourist arrivals from January to July 21 period, the Tourism Ministry said Tuesday, up 34% from the same period a year earlier. The government is targeting 40 million foreign arrivals for the whole of this year. Tourism is a major employer and driver of Thai growth. (Reporting …
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By Simon Lewis, David Brunnstrom, Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin head to Asia this week to reassure allies and partners of U.S. support, the State Department’s top official for East Asia said on Monday, as the November U.S. presidential election casts uncertainty over Washington’s foreign policy. …
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MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines will keep asserting its rights in the South China Sea after it reached a “provisional arrangement” with China about its resupply missions to the contested Second Thomas Shoal, the foreign ministry said on Monday. While neither the Chinese foreign ministry nor the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) provided details of …
By Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Ruma Paul and Sam Jahan DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed her political opponents for deadly violence that swept the country during recent student-led protests against quotas in government jobs, stating on Monday that a curfew would be lifted when the situation improved. Her comments came a day after …
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By Florence Tan and Rozanna Latiff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A tanker that fled the scene of a fiery Friday collision off Singapore entered the area of Malaysia’s Bertam floating oil terminal on Monday after being tracked down and intercepted by Malaysian authorities, shipping data from LSEG and Kpler showed. The Sao Tome and Principe-flagged supertanker …
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(Reuters) -All duties of Myanmar’s figurehead president have been transferred to the chief of the ruling junta, Min Aung Hlaing, after the nominal head of state was placed on medical leave following a period of prolonged illness, state television said on Monday. Myanmar has been in engulfed in chaos since Feb. 2021 when the military …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan police arrested two aides of former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday in a raid on his party’s secretariat, despite the jailed ex-leader having won a series of legal cases brought against him since he was ousted from power in 2022. A police contingent cordoned off the secretariat in …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines and the United States will hold a 2+2 dialogue between their foreign and defence ministers in Manila on July 30, Manila’s foreign ministry said on Monday. The ministers are expected to discuss how they could further enhance their countries’ commitment to their alliance “in support of the rules-based international order, …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks in Japan on July 28 in an effort to push forward what U.S. President Joe Biden called a historic upgrade in the alliance. The so-called “2+2” talks will cover extended deterrence, a term used to describe the U.S. …
