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SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung warned Monday (Nov 24) of the risk of accidental clashes with North Korea, which has cut off all channels of communication with Seoul.Lee, who has taken several steps to ease tensions since taking office in June, has offered discussions with the North without preconditions, in contrast to his hawkish conservative predecessor.Pyongyang has yet to respond to Lee’s overtures.”Inter-Korean relations have, regrettably, turned very hostile and confrontational,” Lee told reporters on a flight from South Africa, where he attended the G20 summit, to Türkiye. “There is not even the most basic level of trust,…
JAKARTA: The death toll from three landslides that hit Indonesia’s Java island since last week…
TAIPEI: Taiwan said on Monday (Nov 17) it has added advanced semiconductor equipment to its…
The trend marks retailers’ latest imaginative effort to curb questionable product refunds, fuelled by a…
SEOUL: South Korea’s defence ministry said on Monday (Nov 17) that it has proposed talks…
SINGAPORE: A week after shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of…
NEXT PHASE OF EXPANSIONPLN, Indonesia’s state-owned utility company, has issued a tender for the wind farm’s next…
TOKYO: A senior Japanese diplomat will head to China on Monday (Nov 17), Japanese media…
Japan has been facing mounting pressure from China since Takaichi made her remarks, with China’s…
TOKYO: Shares in Japanese tourism and retail firms fell sharply on Monday (Nov 17) after…
Jakarta’s new governor Pramono faces his toughest test yet: Building a resilient city amid austerity
“Most of the infrastructure we’ve built so far serves a single function like flood control,”…
Security has been tightened across Dhaka, in Gopalganj — Hasina’s ancestral home and a stronghold…
The explosion on Monday took place near a busy metro station close to the landmark…
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