By Yew Lun Tian and James Pomfret BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – The arms race across the Taiwan Strait and Chinese military pressure against the island Beijing claims as its “sacred” territory is unlikely to end no matter who wins Taiwan’s closely watched elections. China has cast the Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections as a …
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(Reuters) -For about two years, says 24-year-old Yan, a former Myanmar police officer, he risked his life pretending to serve the military junta while secretly spying for the armed resistance. “I freed myself from unfair orders,” he told Reuters from a room in a town near the Myanmar border where he said he was …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung remained hospitalised in intensive care on Wednesday, a day after a knife attack on him shocked political leaders who were vying for the upper hand in a major election three months away. Surgeons operated on Lee for more than two hours late …
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By Jessie Pang and Edward Cho HONG KONG (Reuters) – Several overseas activists, right campaigners and politicians named in a national security trial for Hong Kong democrat Jimmy Lai refuted allegations levelled by a government prosecutor in court that they colluded with him. Lai, 76, founder of now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and a leading …
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By Ju-min Park and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday by a man who lunged at him with a knife after asking for his autograph, officials said. Lee, 59, was rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery to repair a major blood …
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By Daniel Leussink and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL …
Five dead after JAL airliner crashes into quake aid plane at Tokyo airport Read More »
By Daniel Leussink and Yoshifumi Takemoto HANEDA AIRPORT, Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) – The flight between the northern city of Sapporo and Tokyo’s Haneda airport is Japan’s busiest air route, and one of the most frequent services anywhere in the world. Japan Airlines (JAL) operates 16 round-trip flights a day. But when JAL516 followed that route …
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By Tim Hepher and Allison Lampert PARIS/MONTREAL (Reuters) – All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines airliner escaped after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Video showed passengers being evacuated from the burning Airbus A350 by escape slides …
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka, Sakura Murakami and Kantaro Komiya WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day killed at least 55 people, with rescue teams struggling in freezing temperatures on Tuesday to reach coastal areas where many are feared trapped under possibly thousands of destroyed homes. In Suzu, a town …
Japan quake toll rises to 55 with many trapped under possibly thousands of homes Read More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – The heat in China was relenting in 2023 with temperature records broken from Beijing to Shanghai, echoing the global heatwave phenomena that also engulfed most of the world and raised more concerns about global climate change. China’s searing heat led to 127 national weather stations breaking records for daily high temperatures in …
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