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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, said on Friday he had already collected enough electorate signatures to qualify to stand as an independent in January’s presidential election. Gou announced his bid in August, saying he wanted to unite the opposition and ensure the island did not become “the …

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By Adrian Portugal NEAR THE SECOND THOMAS SHOAL, South China Sea (Reuters) – The crew of the Philippine coastguard boat watch anxiously as an imposing Chinese vessel draws near and cuts off its path, coming within a metre of collision in a vast stretch of open water in the South China Sea. The captain of …

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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Heavy rain and strong wind will hit south China over the next three days as Typhoon Koinu reaches the coast after killing one and injuring hundreds in Taiwan, where authorities were on Friday flying help to a badly hit island. Typhoon Koinu, which means “puppy” in Japanese, will bring severe weather to the …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China has set up weather stations on Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world on Tibet’s border with Nepal, expanding a series of high-altitude meteorological gauges in the Himalayas to monitor the impact of climate change on Asia’s “water tower”. Scientists are increasingly watching how climate change is impacting the …

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By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is dousing forest fires with water sprayed from helicopters and inducing rain through cloudseeding, its environment minister said on Friday, but denied that hazardous haze was crossing borders, as neighbouring Malaysia has said. Traditional slash-and-burn methods are used almost every year to clear land in Indonesia for palm …

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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh received the first Russian shipment of uranium fuel for its $12.65 billion debut nuclear power plant on Thursday, making it the 33rd country in the world to produce nuclear power. The south Asian country is building the first of two nuclear power plants in collaboration with Russian state-owned …

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