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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for former leader Chiang Kai-shek as part of ongoing efforts to end the “veneration of authoritarianism”, the culture ministry said on Friday. Generally lauded in life as an anti-communist hero, today many in Taiwan revile Chiang as a despot who imprisoned …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s Supreme Court granted interim bail on Friday to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, but he will stay in jail due to his arrest in another case. Kejriwal was arrested in March by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), India’s financial crime-fighting agency, over alleged corruption in …

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By Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – A large metal arm in a Japanese factory swept a cluster of fluffy white fabric rectangles off a carousel into a group to be wrapped in plastic before packaging for shipment. The items were adult diapers being turned out by automated production lines that stretch for 80 m (262 …

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By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Friday disciplined more than 200 defence personnel, including the military’s top brass and senior bureaucrats, for mishandling classified material and other incidents. The information security problems have occurred as Japan seeks closer cooperation with the U.S. and other western democracies, including in intelligence sharing, to coordinate responses to …

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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has asked the Bank of China to set up operations in the Pacific Island nation, his office said in a statement on Friday. The statement, posted on Facebook, said Salwai had made the request during a visit to bank officials in China. A decision has yet to …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Parts of north-west Delhi were flooded on Thursday after a breach in a canal that supplies water from a nearby state, and repair work was being carried out to minimize the impact, a senior local official said in a social media post. Residents of the capital have experienced a series of …

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(Reuters) – All-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga has stepped down as captain of Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 team, the country’s cricket board said on Thursday, days after the South Asian side made an early exit at the T20 World Cup in the West Indies and United States. The 26-year-old was appointed in December in place of Dasun Shanaka. …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is reviewing rules in a government programme to subsidise micro loans, a senior minister said on Thursday, after the country’s banking regulator signalled it would turn down the government’s request to relax rules on loan restructuring. President Joko Widodo last month proposed reinstating until 2025 a COVID-era loan restructuring policy, which …

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