By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) -China and Vietnam are working on a possible significant upgrade of their underdeveloped rail links to boost a line that crosses Vietnam’s rare earths heartland and reaches the country’s top port in the north, senior officials and diplomats said. The talks are part of preparations for a …
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(Reuters) – The Hong Kong Journalists Association said in a statement on Friday it was “deeply concerned” about the safety and whereabouts of a South China Morning Post reporter who has been unreachable since attending an event in Beijing in late October. Minnie Chan, a senior reporter covering security matters at the newspaper, travelled from …
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping has said the country’s coast guard must enforce maritime law and crack down on “criminal activities” to defend China’s territorial sovereignty, state media reported on Friday. Xi made the comments as he inspected the China Coast Guard’s command office for the East China Sea area and the performance …
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday targeted North Korea with fresh sanctions after its launch of a spy satellite last week, designating foreign-based agents it accused of facilitating sanctions evasion to gather revenue and technology for its weapons of mass destruction program. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it also applied sanctions …
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By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A request by the World Health Organization for more information on a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children in China has attracted global attention. Health authorities have not detected any unusual or novel pathogens, the WHO later said, and doctors and public health researchers say …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19. Following a global …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court began hearings on Friday on a petition by rights activists seeking to halt deportation of Afghan refugees, a lawyer said, as authorities are combing refugee settlements in an effort to find and send home thousands. More than 370,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan since Oct. 1, after Pakistan vowed to …
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By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – Beijing has sponsored cut-price trips to China for hundreds of Taiwanese politicians ahead of key elections on the island, according to Taiwan sources and documents, unnerving officials with a broad campaign that one called “election interference”. President Tsai Ing-wen and other Taiwan officials have warned that China might try …
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – Malaysia has invited China’s President Xi Jingping to visit, its ambassador to Beijing said on Friday, as the Southeast Asian country also seeks to boost the number of Chinese tourists to five million a year to fuel economic growth. China and Malaysia will mark the 50th anniversary of their …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The central banks of South Korea and Japan sealed on Friday a $10-billion currency swap deal following an agreement between their finance ministers, the central banks said in a joint statement. The move comes amid improved ties between the neighbours. Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and South Korea’s Choo Kyung-ho in late …
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