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Published by Reuters By Martin Quin Pollard WUZHOU, China (Reuters) -Rescuers scoured heavily forested mountain slopes in southern China on Tuesday looking for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet that crashed a day earlier with 132 people on board. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn among trees charred by […]

Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s financial hub Shanghai on Tuesday reported a fifth consecutive daily record for locally transmitted COVID-19 asymptomatic cases as the highly infectious Omicron variant complicates efforts to stop the virus spreading. Although small compared with the number of infections in many outbreaks overseas, the rise is significant as Shanghai redoubles

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy called for meaningful talks with Russia to stop its invasion, as Moscow said it was “tightening the noose” around the key port of Mariupol. DIPLOMACY * Biden warned China’s Xi of “consequences”, which the White House said could include sanctions, if Beijing gave material support to Russia’s

Published by Reuters By Sakura Murakami and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday morning after a magnitude 7.4 quake struck shortly before midnight, throwing a swathe of northeastern Japan into darkness, severing key transportation links and killing four. Companies including Toyota Motor Corp and chipmaker Renesas

Published by Reuters HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Thursday she would review COVID restrictions in coming days, as she understands people in the global financial centre are growing increasingly impatient with rules that have isolated the city and hurt business. Restrictions, including a ban on flights from nine countries

Published by Reuters UK By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices tumbled more than 6% on Tuesday to their lowest in almost three weeks, as Russia suggested it would allow a revival of the Iran nuclear deal to go forward and as traders worried growing pandemic lockdowns in China could dent demand. Both Brent

Published by Reuters By Sumit Khanna and Saurabh Sharma AHMEDABAD/LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Hardline Hindu groups are demanding restrictions on wearing the hijab in classrooms in more Indian states after a court upheld a ban on the traditional Islamic head-scarf in Karnataka state, worrying Muslim students who had protested against the ban. The Karnataka High

Published by Reuters By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Nine out of 10 Ukrainians could face poverty and extreme economic vulnerability if the war drags on over the next year, wiping out two decades of economic gains, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) said on Wednesday. Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, said that his agency was working

Published by Reuters UK By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Police on Monday evicted squatters who had occupied a London mansion belonging to the family of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who was placed on Britain’s sanctions list last week in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wearing riot gear, officers entered the multi-million pound mansion in

Published by The Bangkok Post BEIJING: China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day’s tally and the highest daily count since the start of the pandemic. The northeastern province of Jilin was worst hit, accounting for more than 3,000 cases, according to the National Health Commission. Since the coronavirus