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By Napat Wesshasartar and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin discussed overcoming political divisions on Thursday with the predecessor who ousted his party’s last government, as he prepares to pick a cabinet from a crowded 11-party alliance that includes fierce rivals. Srettha sailed through a parliamentary vote to become premier on Tuesday …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s government on Thursday said it will from this month allow Chinese tourists and business people to visit again as it seeks to resume exchanges halted by the COVID-19 pandemic and extend an olive branch to Beijing. China, which has been gradually resuming permission for its nationals to visit a host of …

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(Reuters) -Here are some reactions to Japan’s release of treated radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday. WEN-TI SUNG, POLITICAL SCIENTIST, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: “When dealing with economic slowdown at the grassroots and (the) centrifugal tendency among lying-flat officialdom, nationalism is the most convenient tool to rally the society and public …

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By Hyonhee Shin, Soo-hyang Choi and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea appears to have made progress in its space program, despite a second rocket failure on Thursday, but its unusually quick launch pace may be causing problems, analysts said. North Korea’s second attempt to place a spy satellite in orbit failed after the …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan began pumping more than a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake and …

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By Ben Blanchard and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will spend an extra T$94.3 billion ($2.97 billion) to buy weapons next year including fighter jets to bolster its defences against China, the government said on Thursday, and will get a further boost from new F-16 fighter jet tracking systems. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan …

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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is seeking a six-month extension to a decades-old science and technology agreement with China so that it can undergo negotiations with Beijing to “strengthen” the pact, the State Department said on Wednesday. The landmark deal, signed when Beijing and Washington established diplomatic ties in 1979 and renewed …

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