By Ben Blanchard and Liz Lee TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Tuesday threatened new trade measures against Taiwan, which accused Beijing of “economic coercion” ahead of pivotal weekend elections on the island and also voiced anger at a surprise Chinese satellite launch over its air space. Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary polls are taking place against a …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to ban the eating and selling of dog meat, a move that will end the controversial centuries-old practice amid growing support for animal welfare. Eating dog meat was once seen as a way to improve stamina in the humid Korean summer. But …
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By Ben Blanchard and Ryan Woo TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan’s government issued an air raid alert on Tuesday, saying a Chinese rocket carrying a satellite had flown over its southern airspace, which Taiwan’s foreign minister described as part of a pattern of harassment days before a pivotal election. The island-wide security alert was sent by the …
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By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) – TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers of its gaming assets, including the world’s largest video games company, Tencent, as the Chinese social media firm retreats from the gaming industry. Talks are ongoing but no deal has been reached, a ByteDance …
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By Rishav Chatterjee and Yantoultra Ngui (Reuters) -Global asset manager Keppel’s infrastructure business will supply electricity to the Singapore operations of contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries under a multi-year agreement, the companies said on Tuesday. From May Keppel’s existing power plants will supply between 150 megawatts (MW) and 180 MW of electricity per year at GlobalFoundries’ Singapore …
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By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Nikunj Ohri and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is considering doubling the annual payout to landowning female farmers to 12,000 rupees ($144), three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, a move likely to appeal to women voters ahead of a general election. The …
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By Sarah Wu KINMEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Pointing at Xiamen’s skyscrapers across the water from his office, Chen Tsang-chiang recalled how 30 years ago the southern Chinese city was as low-slung as his Taiwanese island of Kinmen. In the following decades, the 68-year-old former politician watched the metropolis of 5 million people rise, while Kinmen’s forests, …
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By Ju-min Park and Minwoo Park YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (Reuters) – Sri Lankans Siyam Mohamed and MJ Nimshan Dananjaya hadn’t realised how close South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island is to North Korea when they arrived in November to work catching crabs. They had a rude awakening on Friday, however, when alerts sounded on their phones …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A French national has been detained in Azerbaijan suspected of espionage, Baku’s envoy to France said on Tuesday, the latest sign of deteriorating ties between the two countries. Leyla Abdoullayeva told Reuters the French citizen, Martin Ryan, was arrested on Dec. 4 on “suspicion of carrying out acts of espionage”. France’s foreign …
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China is estimated to have overtaken Japan as the world’s largest auto exporter in 2023, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Tuesday, as BYD, Chery and other domestic automakers made major strides overseas. The world’s biggest auto market also became the top auto exporter for the first time in 2023, with …
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