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By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – In a basement maze beneath Japan’s tallest skyscraper, construction crews and digital artists are racing to assemble an immersive museum that will serve as the cultural anchor of Tokyo’s latest megaproject. teamLab, an international collective of artists, set a Guinness World Record by attracting more than 2 million visitors …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity around the island on Sunday, with nine aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait and warships carrying out “combat readiness patrols”. Democratically-governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for the past four years of regular Chinese military patrols and …

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(Reuters) -Armenia and Azerbaijan have been able to agree on the basic principles for a peace treaty but are still “speaking different diplomatic languages”, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Saturday, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The two countries have been at odds for decades, most notably over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of …

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By David Lawder SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday this week’s meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping is a badly needed signal that the world needs to cooperate more. “It sends a signal to the rest of the world that we must find …

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By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, seeking ways to come up with ways to reduce tensions in the South China Sea and restore Filipino fishermen’s access to fishing grounds. The Philippines and China need to continue to communicate, with the meeting …

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – A potential joint bid for Taiwan’s presidency by the island’s two main opposition parties was in disarray on Saturday as they bickered on how to agree on who will run for president with time running out to make a decision. The issue of China, which views Taiwan as its …

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By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Taiwan’s APEC envoy Morris Chang said on Friday that he had informal interactions with U.S. President Joe Biden and discussions with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a summit in San Francisco, but none with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chinese-claimed Taiwan, which takes part in the …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government said on Saturday it had expressed serious concerns to China after an “unsafe and unprofessional” interaction between an Australian navy vessel and Chinese warship left Australian military divers injured. Defence Minister Richard Marles said the HMAS Toowoomba – a long-range frigate – was conducting a diving operation in Japan’s Exclusive …

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