By Ian Ransom HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Thailand claimed the first esports medal awarded at the Asian Games on Tuesday, winning a bronze in a playoff against Vietnam in a mobile phone game at an event that will be closely watched by Olympic officials. Esports was a demonstration tournament at the Jakarta Asian Games five …
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By Mariko Katsumura and Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) – Photo essay: Rickshaw puller Yuka Akimoto breathlessly dashes down the streets of Tokyo under a scorching summer sun, two French tourists enjoying the sights from the back of her black, two-wheeled cart. When the 45-minute tour comes to an end, the 21-year-old bows deeply to her …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea put on the first large-scale military parade in a decade on Tuesday, with weapons ranging from ballistic missiles to tanks rolling through Seoul in a show of force as it takes a tougher stance against North Korea. The parade marks the country’s Armed Forces Day, normally a muted …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -Senior diplomats from South Korea, China and Japan agreed on Tuesday that their countries’ leaders would meet at the “earliest convenient time”, Seoul’s foreign ministry said after a rare meeting aimed at kickstarting trilateral exchanges. The three countries had agreed to hold a summit every year starting …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China, Japan and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to hold a summit among their leaders at a convenient time for all three countries, China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The countries agreed that they should push forward new progress and make new contributions to regional peace, stability and prosperity via trilateral cooperation, …
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LONDON/SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will pay a state visit to Britain in November following an invitation from King Charles, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday. Charles will host Yoon and his wife Kim Keon Hee at the palace for the second official state visit of his reign. The first was by …
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By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China is willing to play a “constructive” role in the success of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, its top diplomat said on Tuesday, after President Xi Jinping’s absence at the annual Group of 20 summit in India. “As the world’s largest developing country and an important …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – An activist and lawyer made famous for his open calls for reform of Thailand’s powerful monarchy was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison for royal insults, a judge said, in one of the country’s most high profile lese-majeste cases. Human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa, 39, is widely known for his …
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STEPANAKERT-KHANKENDI, Azerbaijan (Reuters) – Thousands of ethnic Armenians fled the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, queuing up for fuel and jamming the mountain road to Armenia after their fighters were defeated by Azerbaijan in a lightning military operation. The leadership of the 120,000 Armenians who call Karabakh home told Reuters on Sunday that they …
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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -The head of Hong Kong’s leading journalists group was sentenced on Monday to five days jail for obstructing police officers in September last year after a case seen by some critics as a further blow to media freedoms in the financial hub. Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong …
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