JAKARTA (Reuters) – About one hundred Rohingya landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by boat this year. Many Rohingya have for years attempted in rickety wooden boats to reach neighbouring Thailand and Bangladesh, and Muslim-majority Malaysia and …
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By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Taliban’s acting commerce minister met Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad this week, an Afghan embassy statement said on Tuesday, discussing trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland. The visit takes place less than a …
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By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday U.N. member states enforcing the Korean War armistice are concerned that China and Russia are helping North Korea expand its military capabilities by enabling Pyongyang to evade U.N. sanctions. Austin was speaking at a meeting in South Korea with …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – A group of 19 South Koreans have been rescued in Myanmar after being held captive at an unspecified illegal company in the Southeast Asian country, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said it had sought the help of authorities in military ruled Myanmar after receiving a report last month that …
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By Michael Martina SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Top business leaders in the United States are expected to dine with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday as he seeks to court American companies and counter his country’s recent struggles to entice foreign investment. The dinner on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea criticised the Group of Seven countries as a “remnant of the Cold War” that causes conflicts for their own interests and violates other countries’ sovereignty, its state media KCNA said on Tuesday. Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organisations at Pyongyang’s foreign ministry, condemned G7 foreign …
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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Toxic levels of air pollution are disrupting the lives of millions of people in South Asia forcing closure of schools, impacting sporting events and leaving governments urging people to stay in doors to avoid health problems. The worsening air pollution is an annual problem for South Asian nations …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders from the United States and the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia will meet on Monday for talks that will set the stage for U.S. President Joe Biden’s first face-to-face meeting in a year with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Biden will host Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the White …
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MANILA (Reuters) -A fierce critic of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs” walked free on Monday after a court granted her bail nearly seven years after she was jailed on criminal charges she always denied. Leila de Lima, 64, faced various charges in 2017 within months of launching a Senate inquiry into …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s presidential front-runner Prabowo Subianto on Monday criticised the European Union over its ban on palm oil imports and said Europeans during colonial times were also guilty of deforestation. The EU in April passed a law which would ban imports of commodities linked to forest destruction, including palm oil of which Indonesia is …
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