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SEOUL (Reuters) – China rebuked South Korea on Monday for Taiwan’s participation in a U.S.-backed democracy summit in Seoul, where the island’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang delivered an unannounced video message. Tang told the third Summit for Democracy that Taiwan suffered disproportionately from concerted cyberattacks and the democratically governed island was willing and able to …

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By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – With politicians pouring in to greet him, a dinner with Thailand’s prime minister and a police escort to places he went, billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra looked more like a statesman this weekend than a convicted criminal on parole. Loyalists, cabinet ministers and lawmakers flew to …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court ordered the State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday to submit all the details of so-called electoral bonds issued under an opaque political funding system, just a month before general elections. The further details of the controversial funding mechanism, introduced in 2017 but subsequently scrapped, are expected to …

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By Lucy Craymer and Stella Qiu WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand shared with China its concerns about rising tensions in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait during a meeting on Monday between the foreign ministers of both countries. The meeting between Wang Yi and Winston Peters was their first in person since New Zealand …

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was discharged from hospital on Monday nearly three months after he was admitted for an infection, his office said on Monday. The 98-year-old former premier went into the National Heart Institute on Jan. 26 due to an unspecified infection and has remained in hospital since …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – The number of new marriages in China jumped 12.4% in 2023 from a year earlier, reversing a downtrend that has lasted for almost a decade as more youth tied the knot after delaying their nuptials due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of newlyweds rose to 7.68 million last year, according …

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