COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka sent hundreds of soldiers to key hospitals to help look after patients on Thursday, as hospital orderlies and administrative staff launched a one-day strike nationwide over allowances. Sri Lanka is in the midst of its worst financial crisis in over seven decades which has sent the cost of living soaring …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign minister criticised the Chinese coastguard’s activities in the South China Sea, including its use of lasers and water cannon, during a visit on Thursday to the Philippines, saying the actions were causing concern in Europe too. Tension has flared in recent months between China and the Philippines as they have …
By James Pomfret TAIPEI (Reuters) – As Taiwan prepares to hold a closely watched election on Saturday, the main political parties have highlighted China’s crackdown in Hong Kong and rejected Beijing’s model of governance there being applied to the self-ruled island. The former British colony of Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 and …
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BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -The Chinese coastguard said it patrolled the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday to conduct “right protection”. The East China Sea islets are claimed by both China and Japan, which calls them the Senkaku Islands, and have long been a sticking point in bilateral ties. Japan’s Coast Guard separately said in …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A former South Korean prime minister announced on Thursday his plan to launch a new political party in a move that aims to challenge the domination of the two leading parties in parliament in the run-up to an election on April 10. Lee Nak-yon, a five-term lawmaker who was …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been allowed to remain in hospital for medical treatment, the corrections department said on Thursday, citing the need to continue to closely monitor his health. The billionaire figurehead of the ruling Pheu Thai Party has been in hospital since his return in August from …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fujitsu is under growing pressure over its role in a scandal in which hundreds of Post Office workers in Britain were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because of glitches in software developed by the company. Amid mounting public anger, Britain is moving to quash convictions and pay compensation after …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose party is considered a front-runner to win general elections in February, will kick off his campaign next week, aides said, days after the Supreme Court cleared him to run for a fourth term. The campaign for the Feb 8 poll, delayed since …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – More than 400 Myanmar Army personnel entered India through the porous border in the last two months, India’s army chief General Manoj Pande said on Thursday, as fighting continues between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta-regime. Myanmar’s generals are facing their biggest test since they seized power in a 2021 …
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MANILA (Reuters) -The U.S. embassy in Manila said on Thursday that the U.S. delivered fuel from one of its naval bases in Hawaii to a facility inside a former U.S. base in the Philippines in coordination with the government. A Philippines senator had criticised the “inexplicable silence” over the shipment, which she said raised suspicions …
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