NEW DELHI (Reuters) -A major Indian journalist group urged the government to reject a proposal to police fake news on social media, saying such a change to the country’s information-technology rules would be akin to censorship. The proposal would bar social media platforms from hosting any information that the authorities identify as false, the latest …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Officials in Nepal said on Wednesday there was no chance of finding any survivors of the country’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, but workers will continue to search for the remains of the last missing passenger. Rescue teams used drones and rappelled down deep gorges on Tuesday to …
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(Reuters) – At least seven civilians were killed when Myanmar’s armed forces launched air strikes at a village in the country’s central Sagaing region, according to a witness and BBC Burmese. The Southeast Asian country has been in crisis since the army seized power nearly two years ago, ending a decade of tentative steps towards …
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By Harry Robertson and Rae Wee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar slipped on Thursday after a raft of data showed the U.S. economy is losing momentum, while the yen rebounded as traders continued to bet the Bank of Japan will shift away from ultra-loose monetary policy. U.S. data released on Wednesday showed retail sales fell …
(Reuters) – Japanese transportation company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) and Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO) have agreed to study marine transportation options for liquefied CO2 emitted by KEPCO’s plants, part of Japan’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on Thursday would focus on options to ship liquefied …
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(Reuters) – For two months now, 23-year-old Russian Vladimir Maraktayev has been living in an airport departure lounge. On Sept. 24, having received draft papers calling him up for military service in Ukraine during Russia’s “partial mobilisation”, the linguistics student left home in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude and fled over the border into neighbouring …
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(Reuters) -Google has been jolted after the Indian antitrust authority sought changes to how it markets its Android system, which powers 97% of smartphones in the world’s second biggest mobile market. The U.S. firm had asked the Supreme Court to put on hold the directives of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), arguing that they …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday called for strengthening the resilience of global supply chains, describing it as one of the most urgent tasks facing the international community. Yoon made the remarks at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, saying the war in Ukraine had further disturbed the …
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s customs-cleared crude oil imports rose 8.5% in 2022 from a year earlier, while the value of imported crude oil jumped 91.5% to 13.27 trillion yen due to soaring oil prices and a weaker yen, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Thursday. Japan, the world’s fourth-biggest crude buyer, imported 2.70 million …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) rejected market pressure this week, maintaining ultra-low interest rates, but its bullish views on wages and growing strains from its policy suggest it may still end its expansionist experiment this year. Even unremittingly dovish BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is talking up wage increases in …
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