(Reuters) -The United States asked South Korea to urge its chipmakers not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc from selling chips, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The news comes ahead of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s visit to the U.S. on Monday for a …
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By Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China’s exports of low-sulphur marine fuels rose 38% in March from the previous year, while monthly fuel oil imports soared to a decade-high, General Administration of Customs data showed on Friday. The exports, measured mostly by sales from bonded storage for vessels plying international routes, totalled 1.95 million tonnes. Exports …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Azerbaijan said on Sunday it had established a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a step that was followed by claims of border shootings by both Azeri and Armenian forces. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but its 120,000 inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Armenians and …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government said it is “deeply concerned” by Azerbaijan establishing a checkpoint on the only land route to the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, saying it undermines efforts toward peace in the region. “The United States is deeply concerned that Azerbaijan’s establishment of a checkpoint on the Lachin corridor …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian IT services provider Wipro Ltd said on Sunday it will consider a share buyback proposal at its board meeting on April 27. Indian IT services companies are facing challenges, with shares under pressure as clients cut budgets and scale back projects amid fears of a recession in major economies and recent …
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LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC investors should vote against a resolution by its biggest shareholder Ping An, calling on the bank to consider strategic options including a spinoff of its Asia business, shareholder advisory group ISS said. The proposal by Ping An, over which the bank and the Chinese insurer have been arguing since last November, …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Rescuers hauled an Indian mountaineer up 200 metres (656 feet) from the depths of a crevasse three days after he plunged into it on Mount Annapurna in west Nepal, hiking officials said on Thursday, in a rare example of a successful high-altitude rescue operation. The climber, 34-year-old Anurag Maloo, …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian police have arrested Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh after searching for him for more than a month, a state police official said on Sunday, a move against the revival of an independent homeland in the state of Punjab bordering Pakistan. The rise of Singh, a preacher in the northwestern state of Punjab …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Guangdong province posted a 4.0% gain in its first-quarter gross domestic product compared with a year earlier, according to the provincial statistics bureau on Sunday. (Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Alex Richardson)
PARIS (Reuters) -France, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania expressed dismay after China’s ambassador in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet countries like Ukraine. Asked about his position on whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or not, Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye said in an interview aired on French television on …
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