By Ellen Zhang and Joe Cash DALIAN, China (Reuters) -China’s Premier Li Qiang used his address at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian to hit back at accusations from the U.S. and EU that Chinese firms benefit from unfair subsidies and are poised to flood their markets with cheap green technologies. Li’s comments come …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Nepali court has found a man who thousands believed was a reincarnation of the Buddha guilty of child sexual abuse, a court official said on Tuesday. As a teenager, Ram Bahadur Bamjon drew international attention in 2005 when tens of thousands of people turned up to see the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Family members of victims killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes asked a U.S. judge to name a corporate monitor to examine the planemaker’s safety and corporate compliance procedures. In a court filing, the family members asked U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to impose the monitor saying “Boeing presents an ongoing threat …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – China on Monday dismissed Canadian complaints about what Ottawa said were “credible reports” of human rights violations in the western region of Xinjiang, saying Ottawa should focus instead on its own issues with discrimination. Canadian Ambassador Jennifer May visited Xinjiang June 19 to 22, the first such visit by a Canadian envoy …
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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department on Monday boosted Vietnam’s ranking in a human-trafficking report, even as it cited concerns that the Southeast Asian country had failed to investigate government officials complicit in trafficking crimes. A rights group last week accused Hanoi of giving misleading information and attempting to cover up trafficking …
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By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said on Monday, noting that U.S. universities are limiting Chinese students’ access to sensitive technology given security concerns. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said not …
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By Daewoung Kim, Hongji Kim and Hyunsu Yim HWASEONG, South Korea (Reuters) -A lithium battery factory in South Korea was set on fire after multiple batteries exploded on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, fire officials said. The fire and a series of explosions ripped through the factory run by primary battery …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Delhi city minister has started an indefinite hunger strike to demand more drinking water for India’s capital, where taps in some of its poorest neighbourhoods are running nearly dry in the middle of searing heat. “There are 2.8 million people in the city who are aching for …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -A man holding what appeared to be a knife attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China, on Monday, seriously wounding a Chinese woman and injuring a Japanese woman and her child, an official at the Japanese consulate in Shanghai said. The Chinese woman, who was aboard the bus, is …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Discussions between Russia and North Korea about what Pyongyang gets in return for weapons supplies to Moscow could relate to North Korea’s nuclear long-range missile development, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday. Campbell also told an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank that China is probably …
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