DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar is balancing its relationships with both the United States and China and one link does not damage the other, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Friday. China’s growing influence in the Gulf has unnerved the United States – an issue that came into focus this week as Saudi …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s defence ministry reported renewed Chinese military activity around the island on Friday, including 13 aircraft entering Taiwan’s “response” zone and five ships carrying out combat readiness patrols. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has complained for the past three years of increased military pressure from Beijing. On Saturday, …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was still being treated in hospital on Friday and his condition remained a concern, a senior doctor said, three days after his historic return from self-exile. Thaksin, 74, was hospitalised after suffering chest tightness and high blood pressure on the first night in prison, where he …
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By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will take on the additional role of finance minister in his cabinet, senior officials from his Pheu Thai Party told Reuters on Friday. The two officials declined to be identified because the discussions were not public. The Pheu Thai Party did not immediately …
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s defence ministry on Friday said it scrambled jet fighters to monitor Chinese air force bombers and drones flying near the country’s southwestern Okinawa island and Taiwan. Two Chinese H-6 bombers were spotted flying through the strait between southwest Japan’s Okinawa and Miyako islands connecting the East China Sea and the Pacific on …
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By Casey Hall and Albee Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese consumers stayed away from sea food stalls and rushed to stock up on salt following Beijing’s condemnation of Japan’s release on Thursday of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. During the past few weeks, China’s state media and government …
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By Ann Wang and Minh Nguyen KEELUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Dressed in camouflage and holding a plastic rifle, Tsai Tsung-lin has been tramping around Taiwan on foot for more than a month with one message to his compatriots: be prepared for war. The 22-year-old former soldier, discharged from the army in July, hopes his journey …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Online retailers in parts of China ran out of salt on Thursday after Japan began discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, setting off a buying frenzy among anxious consumers. One of the world’s biggest seafood importers, China banned all supplies of aquatic products from Japan in response …
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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – The front-runner to become Taiwan’s next president said on Friday that the international community blames the rise in tension across the Taiwan Strait on China rather than on the island. “The international community understands that recent tensions are not because of President Tsai or because of Taiwan, but because …
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By Gopal Sharma BHARDEV, Nepal (Reuters) – In a village a little over an hour’s drive from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently squeezing the wet larvae of the black soldier fly into small plastic containers. Another woman slices pears and wilted vegetables …
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