BANGKOK (Reuters) – An activist lawyer lodged a petition on Thursday seeking to dissolve Thailand’s Move Forward Party over its plan to amend a law protecting the monarchy from criticism, in a setback for a party that won an election on a bold agenda of liberal reform. The petition was filed with the election commission …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has approved the third phase of the military’s modernisation, which includes the purchase of the country’s first submarine, in order to defend its maritime sovereignty in the disputed South China Sea. Navy spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea, Roy Trinidad, said on Thursday the third phase of …
By Jessie Pang and Edward Cho HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong court on Thursday found four people guilty of rioting after the legislature of the financial centre was stormed during pro-democracy protests in 2019. The verdict comes after eight others had already plead guilty to charges over the incident when hundreds of protesters besieged …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Over 130 Rohingya landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday, an official at the U.N. refugee agency said, the latest in a series of such arrivals that have drawn controversy in the Southeast Asian country. The Rohingya, a persecuted religious minority in Myanmar, have faced rejection and hostility from locals …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Members of a Russian rock band opposed to the Ukraine war have left Thailand for Israel a week after the authorities threatened to deport them back to Moscow for working at the resort island of Phuket without a permit, the band and the Thai police said. Human rights activists had warned that …
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By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday slapped further sanctions on Myanmar, marking the three-year anniversary of the coup as Washington targeted two entities and several people it said were closely associated with the junta. Wednesday’s sanctions were the latest aimed at the fuel the junta uses to conduct …
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By Michael Martina, Patricia Zengerle and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, preparing to cause “real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional committee on Wednesday. Water treatment plants, the electric grid, oil and natural gas pipelines and transportation hubs are among the …
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(This Jan. 29 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of ‘computing’ in paragraph 6) By Christopher Bing and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military rulers on Wednesday extended a state of emergency in place since a 2021 coup, as the junta battles to contain a bloody, pro-democracy rebellion that has severely tested its ability to govern. Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing deemed it necessary to extend emergency rule for a further six months to undertake …
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By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A national assembly candidate in Pakistan’s election next week was shot dead on Wednesday in a tribal district along the Afghan border, police said, in the second killing of a candidate linked to jailed former leader Imran Khan’s party this month. Rehan Zaib Khan, an independent candidate in …
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