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By Liz Lee and Jeanny Kao BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China on Friday pressured Taiwan with a trade barrier probe and warplanes in the Taiwan Strait a month before the island holds key elections, as Taipei called on Beijing to stop its “political operations”. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are taking place as China, which …

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The trial of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will be held behind closed doors, his lawyer said on Thursday, a day after he was indicted for leaking state secrets, blocking his chances to contest a national election in February. The charges are related to a classified cable sent to Islamabad …

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(This Dec. 13 story has been corrected to clarify that the comment was made by the Chinese embassy, not the Canadian embassy, in paragraph 4) (Reuters) – China condemned Canada’s support for the Philippines over what it said were violations of China’s sovereignty in the South China Sea, according to a statement by a Chinese …

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By Liz Lee and Ethan Wang BEIJING (Reuters) -China has mediated peace talks between Myanmar’s ruling military and rebel groups, and the parties agreed on a temporary ceasefire and to maintain dialogue, Beijing said on Thursday. The fighting, largely in northern Shan state, has caused worry in neighbouring China. Around 300,000 people have been displaced …

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By Ann Wang and Ben Blanchard TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Sun Kuo-hsi vividly remembers the chaos of the final years of the Chinese civil war and the government forces he fought for collapsing in front of Mao Zedong’s Communists, forcing him to flee by boat to Taiwan in 1949 in a perilous eight-day crossing. “There …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The stock exchange in China’s city of Shenzhen and the Abu Dhabi securities exchange agreed to promote cross-border investment and listings in the latest flurry of co-operation between institutions in countries looking to cut reliance on the West. It comes days after a similar pact between the Shenzhen exchange and the Saudi …

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