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Sun Kuo-hsi vividly remembers the chaos of the final years of the Chinese civil war and the government forces he fought for collapsing in front of Mao Zedong's Communists, forcing him to flee by boat to Taiwan in 1949 in a perilous eight-day crossing. "There was no dock; everyone was splashing around in the water," Sun, 110, told Reuters in his government-run veterans care home in the northern Taiwanese city of Taoyuan. Although the defeated Republic of China government fled to ...

Singapore-based container shipper X-Press Feeders plans to use green methanol bunker to fuel part of its fleet in Europe in the second quarter of 2024, a senior executive said on Tuesday. ...

Istanbul-based tanker operator Palmali has become the top shipper for Ukraines Black Sea-borne sunflower oil exports, one of the countrys key export products, and plans to expand further, its...

Chinese property giant Dalian Wanda Group Co. has avoided an immediate repayment of more than $4 billion to its investors after reaching an agreement with them, according to a statement by the firm... -December 12, 2023 at 01:26 am EST - MarketScreener

Myanmar has become the world's largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday. The 95% decline in opium cultivation in Afghanistan after a drug ban by the Taliban in 2022 has seen global supply shifted to Myanmar, where political, social and economic instability brought about by a 2021 coup drove many to poppy farming, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report said.

By Beln Carreo and Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) - A Madrid court has started criminal proceedings against a Spanish arbitrator who awarded $15 bi...

Britain's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it would scrutinize environmental claims made by UK consumer goods giant Unilever about certain household

Taiwan's military sent forces to watch a Chinese naval formation, led by the aircraft carrier Shandong, sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as Beijing keeps up pressure ahead of elections next month. The latest sailing comes about one month before presidential and parliamentary elections on the island. The ministry said in a statement that the formation sailed south through the strait but kept to the western side of the waterway's median ...

Indonesian defence minister and presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has extended a commanding lead in the polls ahead of February's election, with a series of recent surveys showing the former general now has a more than 20-point lead. The latest poll, released by Kompas on Monday, showed that Prabowo and his running mate, President Joko Widodo's 36-year-old son Gibran Rakabuming, garnered 39.3% of the vote. The survey placed former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan as his closest op...

SEOUL/TOKYO -The remaining four members of K-pop supergroup BTS will begin their 18-month military service in South Korea this week, joining three others already serving, with fans pledging to wait... -December 11, 2023 at 03:51 am EST - MarketScreener