JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s presidential candidate frontrunner Prabowo Subianto widened his lead over his opponents in the latest surveys as the world’s third-largest democracy heads to an election on Feb. 14, two pollsters said on Saturday. Based on a survey conducted between Jan 10 and 16, 48.6% of voters polled supported defence minister Prabowo and …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares ended lower in a trading session on Saturday, dragged by information technology companies and Hindustan Unilever, but gains in lenders helped limit some losses. The blue-chip Nifty 50 ended down 0.23% to 21,571.80, while the S&P BSE Sensex fell 0.4% to 71,423.65. The equity market traded in a full session …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -A fire in a central China school dormitory killed 13 students and injured another，prompting the authorities to call for screening fire risks in crowded places, state media said on Saturday. The Friday night fire killed third graders in a boys’ dormitory of Yingcai School in Henan Province, according to China Newsweek, a weekly …
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares rose in a trading session on Saturday, helped by a bounce in banking stocks after an HDFC Bank-led slide earlier in the week, while investors awaited earnings reports from large private lenders, due later in the day. The blue-chip Nifty 50 rose 0.16% to 21,656.95, while the S&P BSE Sensex advanced …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A fire broke out at a nickel smelter in eastern Indonesia, an official said on Saturday, less than a month after a fire at the same industrial park killed 21 people. No workers were injured in the late Friday furnace fire at the smelter in Morowali, operated by Sulawesi Mining Investment, said …
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MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine central bank Governor Eli Remolona said on Saturday that supply shocks could derail the bank’s forecast that inflation will decelerate back to its target range. The Southeast Asian economy is “not out of the woods yet” as supply shocks could trigger second-round effects and heighten inflation expectations, the Bangko Sentral ng …
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By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday welcomed Brazil’s recent support for Beijing’s “One China policy” that states Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, in a sign of stronger bilateral ties with South America’s largest country. At the end of a two-day visit to Brazil, Wang made a stop …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Joey Roulette TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to prove a “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space programme that has suffered setbacks. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said …
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By Minwoo Park and Jimin Jung SEOUL (Reuters) – Video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors shows North Korean authorities publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years’ hard labour for watching K-pop. The footage, which shows the two 16-year-olds in Pyongyang convicted of watching South Korean movies and music videos, …
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By Anushree Ashish Mukherjee (Reuters) – Gold firmed on Friday but was poised to record its biggest weekly decline in six, as comments from Federal Reserve policymakers through the week lowered expectations of an early rate cut. Spot gold rose 0.2% to $2,027.49 per ounce by 02:02 p.m. ET (1902 GMT), but was down 1% …
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