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Beijing sanctions Japan MP over Taiwan remarks

China on Monday announced its first ever sanctions against an individual Japanese lawmaker, targeting China-born Hei Seki for ‘spreading fallacies’ on issues such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and disputed islands, prompting a protest from Tokyo.

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China opposes Trump’s blacklist

Beijing on Monday said it ‘firmly opposes’ US president Donald Trump’s decision to create a blacklist of countries Washington says unjustly detain Americans, which his administration has said could include China.

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Indonesia replaces finance min after protests

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto on Monday removed finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati in a cabinet reshuffle following deadly anti-government protests across the country.

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Read to reduce sentence, Uzbekistan tells prisoners

Prisoners in Uzbekistan will be able to plead for reduced sentences if they read books selected by authorities to cultivate ‘correct spiritual and moral values’, officials said.

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Xi at centre of world stage after days of high-level hobnobbing

Two blockbuster events in China this week were a successful exposition of president Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order — one that puts him and his country firmly at its centre while sidelining his rival the United States.

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Xi projects power at military parade with Putin, Kim

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade of military might in Beijing on Wednesday, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West...

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Rights group says 10 killed in Indonesia protests

At least 10 people were killed during violent protests in Indonesia last week, a rights group said on Wednesday, one of several organisations to report fatalities due to the unrest...

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Acting Thai govt moves to dissolve parliament

Thailand’s acting prime minister moved to dissolve parliament Wednesday, his party said, after the largest opposition group backed a rival candidate to lead the country...