By Fabian Hamacher and Yimou Lee HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Linda Chen looked wistfully around her apartment in Taiwan’s eastern city of Hualien, which her family believes is now too dangerous to live in after it was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.2. Wednesday’s quake, which left cracks in the walls of Chen’s home …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -A staunch friend of Taiwan’s will this summer take over as the top U.S. diplomat in Taipei, three sources briefed on the matter said, roughly coinciding with the island’s new president taking office at a time of rising tensions with China. Like most nations, the United States has no formal …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan on Thursday condemned China as “shameless” after Beijing’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations thanked the world for its concern about a strong earthquake on the island. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and also claims the right to speak for it on the international stage, to the fury …
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(Reuters) – Thirteen fixed-wing drones were shot down over the capital of military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday, in a foiled attack by “terrorists” seeking to destroy important locations in the city, military-run Myawaddy TV reported. Of the 13 drones, four carried explosives but no damage or casualties were inflicted, the report said. Myawaddy did not mention …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – China has proposed the most reasonable peace plan so far for resolving the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Thursday. Beijing put forward a 12-point paper more than a year ago that set out general principles for ending the war but did not get into specifics. …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -A much-heralded first meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and a negotiator for young doctors who walked off the job in February appeared to have made little progress on Thursday after the latter expressed pessimism on social media. Yoon’s office said his first in-person talks lasted more than two hours, after …
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka does not see any need to re-open talks on a contentious island ceded to it by New Delhi 50 years ago, the foreign minister has said, after the low-key territorial squabble turned into a hot-button election issue in India. The party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A Singapore court on Thursday convicted a second defendant in its biggest-ever money laundering case, news outlet The Straits Times reported. The case has involved the seizure or freezing of $2.2 billion of assets. Defendant Su Haijin admitted to one charge of resisting arrest and two money laundering charges, the report said, …
By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – The Bank of Korea is considering overhauling how it provides guidance on the likely future path of interest rates by extending the timeframe and giving visual estimates in a bid to boost transparency, said four sources familiar with the issue. The proposal, however, faces opposition from at least one …
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By Yimou Lee and Fabian Hamacher HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people on Wednesday and injured more than 900, while 50 workers travelling in minibuses to a hotel in a national park were missing. Some buildings tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated county of …
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