DHAKA (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said the U.S. is willing to work with Bangladesh to help the South Asian nation achieve its economic goals, nearly a month after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sworn in following an election boycotted by the opposition. Biden made his comments in a letter to Hasina, Foreign Minister Hasan …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – The suspended death sentence handed to Australian writer Yang Hengjun in Beijing on Monday is unlikely to derail Australia-China ties but will test the limits of Canberra’s push to put relations back on track after years of tensions, analysts say. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she was “appalled”, …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian blogger Yang Hengjun, appearing in a Beijing court on Monday to receive a suspended death sentence on espionage charges, looked “very thin, very fragile”, his friends in Sydney said. The description relayed to them by Yang’s wife, who sat in court, was a far cry from the charismatic …
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least 10 police personnel were killed and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack on Monday by militants on a police station in northwest Pakistan, police said, as violence escalated ahead of general elections this week. At around 3 a.m. local time (2200 GMT Sunday) militants attacked the police …
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By Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 95 Myanmar border guards, some of them wounded, have fled to Bangladesh over the last few days as fighting intensifies between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta regime, officials in Bangladesh said on Monday. Since mounting a coup against an elected government in …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Former president of China Merchants Bank Tian Huiyu was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption, Chinese state media reported on Monday. Tian was charged with accepting bribes, abuse of power by personnel of a state-owned company, trading on undisclosed information, insider trading, and disclosure of insider information, among others. …
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim urged calm on Monday as he defended a move to reduce the jail sentence for disgraced former leader Najib Razak, amid a growing backlash from critics who said the decision could jeopardise anti-corruption efforts. A pardons board chaired by Malaysia’s king before he ended his reign …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – Australian writer and pro-democracy blogger Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence by a Beijing court on Monday, in what human rights advocates say is an unusually harsh verdict in an espionage-related case. Here are more details about the suspended death penalty: WHAT IS THE SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY? …
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MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines’ defence minister on Monday vowed to “strictly enforce” the country’s sovereignty, joining the chorus of security officials pledging to defend the nation following secessionist threats made by former president Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte on Jan. 30 called for the independence of his hometown island Mindanao in the southern Philippines as his alliance …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Monday it had detected nine Chinese military aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait and carrying out “joint combat readiness patrols” with Chinese warships. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, regularly reports Chinese military activity near it. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing …
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