By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party has been excluded from a coalition of parties hoping to form the next government after a May general election, parties in the alliance said on Wednesday. Southeast Asia’s second largest economy has been in political limbo since the poll, in which the progressive Move …
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By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -Visitors are thronging a zoo in eastern China’s Zhejiang province after a video of one of its bears went viral with some netizens suggesting she looked so human that she might be a staff member in a bear suit, local media reported on Tuesday. Visitor numbers at Hangzhou Zoo …
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By Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – Extreme rain battered Beijing, Tianjin and the province of Hebei in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri in late July, causing widespread flooding and damage in a region the size of Britain. The storms, which have killed at least 20 people and led to the displacement of …
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ASHGABAT (Reuters) – Turkmenistan’s flagship airline has suspended flights to Moscow, it said on Wednesday, citing safety concerns after Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. “Due to the situation in the Moscow air zone, and based on a risk assessment in order to ensure flight safety, all Turkmenistan Airlines flights on the Ashgabat-Moscow-Ashgabat route …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Li Tie, former head coach of Chinese men’s national soccer team, has been charged with suspected bribery, state media reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
By Liz Lee and Ella Cao BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday dispatched thousands of rescue workers to Zhuozhou, a flooded city of over 600,000 residents southwest of Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri continued to wreak havoc on swathes of the city twice the size of Paris. Zhuozhou is in Hebei province, which has …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Pheu Thai party will nominate real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin for the next prime ministerial vote in parliament, a party official said on Wednesday, amid a prolonged political deadlock after a May 14 general election. (Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng, Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has formally invited China’s newly reappointed foreign minister, Wang Yi, to Washington, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, after Wang’s predecessor was abruptly removed from his post by Beijing. China reappointed veteran diplomat Wang last week, replacing former rising star Qin Gang, who …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -North Korea has offered a very brief response to the United Nations Command about a U.S. soldier who dashed over the heavily-guarded border with South Korea on July 18 and was immediately taken into custody, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. However, Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder …
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(Reuters) -Myanmar’s ruling military pardoned on Tuesday jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted but she will remain under house arrest, state media and informed sources said. The pardons mean six years will be shaved off Suu Kyi’s 33-year jail term, junta spokesperson Zaw …
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