On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc on Saturday and reactivated an old account.
South Korea prosecutor weighs economic impact of arrest of Samsung chief
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s special prosecutor said on Sunday it will take into account the economic impact of whether to arrest Samsung Group [SAGR.UL] leader Jay Y. Lee in connection with an influence-peddling investigation involving the presiden…
Bahrain executes three Shi’ites convicted of killing policemen
RIYADH (Reuters) – Bahraini authorities on Sunday executed three Shi’ite Muslim men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer and two Bahraini policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, in a move likely to stoke protests in the restive Gulf island kingdom.
China’s top judge warns courts on judicial independence
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s courts must firmly resist the western idea of judicial independence and other ideologies which threaten the leadership of the ruling Communist Party, the country’s top judge was reported as saying by state-run Chinese News S…
Britain may change ‘economic model’ if shut out of EU single market: Hammond
BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the European Union without an agreement on market access, British finance minister Phillip Hammond said in a German newspaper interview published o…
Ex-U.N. chief Ban says South Korea’s THAAD deployment appropriate
SEOUL (Reuters) – Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is expected to run for president of South Korea, said on Sunday it is appropriate for the country to be the site of a U.S. anti-missile system that is due to be deployed later t…
Leadership change looms for armed group key to Myanmar’s peace process
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s strongest ethnic armed group is set for its biggest leadership shake-up in a quarter century, senior sources told Reuters, raising the prospect of a period of instability in a group that is key to Aung San Suu Kyi’s signatu…
Malaysian communities in denial after major paedophile case: police
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – More than six months after Richard Huckle was sentenced to life in jail for sexually abusing scores of children, most of the families in the Malaysian communities where he lived are declining counselling and other help, police …
Japan, Australia to strengthen defense ties, stress importance of TPP
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney on Saturday where the pair agreed to deepen defense ties and stressed the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Britain’s May to call for national unity in major Brexit speech
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will use a major speech on Brexit next week to call on Britons to reject the acrimony of last year’s referendum and unite around the vision of a Britain more open to the world, her office said on Sunday.
