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• S Korean officials abandon bid to arrest impeached president after stand-off

  03-01-2025 07:45 via ft.com
  Yoon Suk Yeol faces probe into alleged treason and abuse of power over failed attempt to impose martial law
  
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• Tencent added to Pentagon list of companies working with China’s military

  06-01-2025 20:22 via ft.com
  
  US-listed shares of WeChat owner fall after US Department of Defense discloses designation
  
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• KKR urges Fuji Soft to take legal action against Bain in $4bn takeover fight

  06-01-2025 14:54 via ft.com
  Public battle between private equity bidders for software company tests new ground in Japan
  
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• China’s regulators rush to reassure investors as equities and renminbi fall

  06-01-2025 09:28 via ft.com
  
  CSI 300 down 4.2% this year and currency slides to 15-month low as Donald Trump’s return weighs on markets
  
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• China rushes to reassure investors as equities and renminbi fall

  06-01-2025 09:28 via ft.com
  
  CSI 300 down 4.2% this year and currency slides to 15-month low as Donald Trump’s return weighs on markets
  
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• South Korea crisis mounts as clock ticks on arrest warrant for president

  06-01-2025 07:29 via ft.com
  
  Anti-graft agency taps police to bring Yoon Suk Yeol into custody following hours-long stand-off on Friday
  
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• China’s regulators rush to reassure investors as equities and currency fall

  06-01-2025 07:16 via ft.com
  
  CSI 300 down 4.2% this year and renminbi slides to 15-month low as Donald Trump’s return weighs on markets
  
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• Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025

  06-01-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US
  
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• Chinese venture capitalists force failed founders on to debtor blacklist

  06-01-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding
  
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• China’s drive to give Taiwanese visitors local IDs alarms Taipei

  06-01-2025 02:14 via ft.com
  
  Officials fear jurisdiction will be compromised and push could open door for Beijing to intervene in its domestic affairs
  
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• Waitangi Day: record crowds expected amid tensions over Māori policy in New Zealand

  06-01-2025 01:51
  
  Event in February that commemorates signing of New Zealand’s founding document expected to draw tens of thousands but PM will not attendOrganisers of New Zealand’s national day commemorating the signing of the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British crown are expecting record attendance in 2025, following a year of rising tensions over the government’s policy direction for Māori.In February, tens of thousands of people are expected to desc
  
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• Tulip Siddiq under rising pressure to resign over UK property scandal

  05-01-2025 20:43 via ft.com
  Anti-corruption minister received accommodation from a developer with links to ousted Bangladeshi government
  
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• Tulip Siddiq under rising pressure to resign over property scandal

  05-01-2025 20:43 via ft.com
  Anti-corruption minister received accommodation from a developer with links to ousted Bangladeshi government
  
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• The Guardian view on film and feminism in China: women feel Her Story is their story | Editorial

  05-01-2025 19:25
  
  The hit comedy has struck a chord by celebrating female friendship and pushing back against misogynyJust over a year ago, Xi Jinping told China’s national women’s congress that the Communist party must “actively foster a new type of marriage and childbearing culture”. For the last two years, there has been not one woman on the 24-strong politburo (no women have ever reached its standing committee, China’s most senior political body). Activism on women’s issues
  
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• Taiwan asks South Korea for help over Chinese ship after subsea cable damaged

  05-01-2025 09:25 via ft.com
  
  Shunxing39 cargo vessel is heading for Pusan after Taipei suggests anchor-dragging was ‘sabotage’
  
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• Sushi restaurateurs fork out $1.3m for motorbike-sized tuna at auction in Tokyo

  05-01-2025 07:18
  
  Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish marketThe top bidder at a Tokyo fish market has paid $1.3m for a tuna, the second highest price ever paid at an annual prestigious new year auction.Michelin-starred sushi restaurateurs the Onodera Group said they had paid 207 million yen on Sunday for the 276 kilogram (608 pound) bluefin tuna, roughly the size and weight of a motorbike. Continue reading...
  
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• China’s box office takings drop by a quarter as viewers turn to streaming

  05-01-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Lack of blockbusters, pandemic aftereffects and hard economic times blamed for 2024 slump
  
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• Xi has a plan for retaliating against Trump’s gamesmanship

  05-01-2025 03:00 via ft.com
  
  China is marshalling its forces for long-term competition against an America that it believes is divided and in decline
  
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• Tech groups to pay premium for energy for Malaysia data centres, says minister

  05-01-2025 02:00 via ft.com
  
  Investment in ‘oil of the 21st century’ will support country’s development of renewable power
  
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• Cocksure Kim Jong-un is raising the nuclear stakes. Is it time for South Korea to follow suit? | Simon Tisdall

  04-01-2025 18:30
  
  Under Donald Trump, the US may become an unreliable ally. The case is getting stronger for Seoul to build its own deterrentSo-called frozen conflicts can suddenly turn hot without warning. Look at Ukraine, Syria or Armenia-Azerbaijan. Might Korea be next? For almost three-quarters of a century, an armistice – not a peace treaty – has prevented old foes North Korea and South Korea tearing each other apart. Their respective backers, China and the US, underwrote a chilly cold war status
  
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• Thousands of rival protesters rally in Seoul after Yoon Suk Yeol avoids arrest – video

  04-01-2025 18:21
  
  South Koreans for and against impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol rallied on adjacent streets in the Hannam-dong neighbourhood of Seoul on 4 January, just streets away from his official presidential residence. South Korean investigators again asked the country's acting president on Saturday to order the presidential security service to comply with an arrest warrant for impeached president Yoon. Yoon's 3 December martial law declaration stunned South Korea and led to the first arrest warrant to be
  
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• Thousands of rival protesters rally in Seoul after Yoon Suk Yeol avoids arrest

  04-01-2025 16:24
  
  Crowds gather outside South Korean presidential residence where suspended leader is protected by security officersThousands of rival South Korean protesters have rallied in the capital a day after a failed attempt to arrest the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.The country has been plunged into political chaos since last month, with Yoon defiantly holed up in the presidential residence surrounded by hundr
  
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• Fire at food market in northern China kills eight people and injures 15

  04-01-2025 15:52
  
  Cause of fire in city of Zhangjiakou in Hebei province is under investigationAt least eight people have died and 15 are injured after a fire broke out at a food market in northern China, according to state media.The fire at the Liguang market in the city of Zhangjiakou broke out at midday on Saturday and had been mostly extinguished two hours later, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing a government official in Qiaoxi district where the market is located. Continue reading...
  
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• World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies in Japan aged 116

  04-01-2025 13:08
  
  Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had a reputation for a ‘sprightly spirit’Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116.Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 December at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, in central Japan. Continue reading...
  
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• Myanmar junta to free about 6,000 prisoners in annual amnesty, including 180 foreigners

  04-01-2025 07:32
  
  It was not clear whether Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held virtually incommunicado since 2021 coup, would be among those releasedMyanmar’s military government will release about 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty on Saturday marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain.There was no sign that the prisoner release would include Aung San Suu Kyi, 79, who has been held virtually incommunicado by the military since it seized p
  
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• Man charged over alleged rape of Virgin Australia crew member in Fiji

  04-01-2025 07:12
  
  Airline staff were celebrating New Year’s Eve in Nadi when the alleged incident occurredGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man has been charged with the alleged rape and sexual assault of a Virgin Australia crew member in Fiji in the early hours of New Year’s Day.The man “will be produced in court on Monday”, after having been taken into custody on Wednesday, acting police commissioner Juki Fong Chew said in an email that confirmed a report by AB
  
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• Why Japan is the perfect place to turn 50

  04-01-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  A significant birthday feels less so in a country that has become a global pioneer of ageing — for better and for worse
  
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• The contradictions of Xi Jinping

  04-01-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Two incisive studies of the Chinese president reveal a complex figure who is all too aware of the capricious nature of power
  
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• A toddler, a student, a family of nine: who were the victims of Jeju Air flight 7C2216?

  04-01-2025 01:00
  
  The 179 people who died were aged between three and 78 and came from South Korea and ThailandThe 181 people who boarded Jeju Air flight 7C2216 in Bangkok on Sunday were no different from the millions who fly on commercial aircraft every day: children on their first trip abroad, colleagues celebrating promotion, holidaymakers returning from package tours – all looking forward to being reunited with family and friends in South Korea.Now, though, they will for ever be associated with the wors
  
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• Tulip Siddiq was given London flat by developer with links to ousted Bangladeshi government

  03-01-2025 16:35 via ft.com
  
  UK City minister still owns King’s Cross property she was handed in 2004
  
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