The U.S. cleared Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. to supply U.S. chip equipment to their China factories without a separate approval process, South Korea's presidential office said Monday. The two South Korean companies received notification that the decision takes effect immediately, South Korea's presidential economic adviser Choi Sang-mok told reporters Monday at a briefing, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

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(Asiad) badminton player-injury(Asiad) Knee injury can't stop An Se-young's gold medal smashBy Kim Boram HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- When leading the first game of the women's singles final against China's Chen Yufei 18-17 at the 19th Asian Games, South Korean badminton player An Se-young suddenly sat down on the court, clutching her right knee. She took a brief medical break and returned to the court, but her movements were not sharp or active as she had done before. An Se-young of South Korea takes a medical break during the final of the women's singles badminton event at Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China, in the 19th Asian Games on Oct.

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Mammals Eating Dinosaurs in China, Greenland's Melted Past, Florida Coral Catastrophe and much more in this month's Quick Hits Photo credit: NASAAdvertisement AUSTRALIA Australia is the first country to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. As clinical trials for these and other psychedelics gain momentum around the world, […] The post Science News Briefs from around the World: October 2023 first appeared on The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette .

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president said Friday that his country does not want a confrontation but will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard removed a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. It was the first time President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spoken publicly against China's installation of the 300-meter (980-foot) -long barrier at the entrance to Scarborough Shoal which was dismantled at his order. 'We're not looking for trouble but what we'll do is to continue defending the maritime territory of the Philippines and the rights of our fishermen, who have been fishing in those areas for hundreds of years,' Marcos said in response to a question at a news briefing in southern Surigao del Norte province.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- IHH Healthcare Bhd group chief financial officer (CFO) Joerg Ayrle will be on garden leave from Sept 30, 2023 until the expiry of his employment contract in Malaysia on Jan 31, 2024. In a brief announcement on Bursa Malaysia today, IHH said Ayrle will also be on garden leave until the cessation of his employment contract in Singapore. The integrated healthcare provider's official website showed that Ayrle was appointed the group CFO on Feb 1, 2021. bootstrap slideshow It said with a wealth of international experience from the United States, Germany, Singapore, China and Thailand, Ayrle will be responsible for providing financial leadership and strategic guidance for IHH and its operations and the business plan development.

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(6th LD) N Korea-US soldier (ATTN: UPDATES with more info in 18th para)By Lee Minji and Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) -- An American soldier who crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea in July is in U.S. custody after his release by the reclusive regime, senior U.S. administration officials said Wednesday, capping an intense diplomatic operation facilitated by Sweden and China. Speaking in a press briefing, the officials said Pvt. Travis King has been transferred out of North Korea across the border with China, and that he appears to be "in good health and good spirits" ahead of his return home.

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(7th LD) N Korea-US soldier (7th LD) Travis King in U.S. custody after expulsion by N. Korea: Washington officials(ATTN: ADDS more details in 7th para)By Song Sang-ho and Lee Minji WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) -- An American soldier who crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea in July is in U.S. custody after his release by the reclusive regime, senior U.S. administration officials said Wednesday, capping an intense diplomatic operation facilitated by Sweden and China. Speaking in a press briefing, the officials said Pvt.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question during the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing on July 24, 2020. (FIle photo from GREG BAKER / AFP via China Daily/Asia News Network) MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Philippines of intruding in Scarborough Shoal 'without their permission.' It also admitted the floating barriers were put in place to 'block and drive away' Philippine vessels. Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, made this statement after Philippine government stood against China's actions in Scarborough Shoal, otherwise known as Bajo de Masinloc.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, enter a Cabinet meeting Monday at the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul. Han briefed Yoon on his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping over the weekend. [JOINT PRESS CORPS] Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told President Yoon Suk Yeol in a Cabinet meeting Monday that he and the Chinese leader discussed hopes for "shuttle diplomacy" to unfold between South Korea and China following their recent meeting. Han explained the results of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday during his trip to Hangzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games over the weekend, presidential spokesperson Lee Do-woon said in a press briefing in Seoul on Monday.

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HONG KONG  -China Evergrande Group's latest trouble in firming up a long-pending debt restructuring plan led to a sell-off in its and peers' shares on Monday, as worries resurfaced about the crisis-hit property sector after a brief respite. Evergrande, the world's most indebted property developer, which has become the poster child of China's property crisis, has been working to get its creditors' approval for a debt restructuring plan after having defaulted in 2021. Under the plan unveiled in March this year, Evergrande proposed options to offshore creditors including swapping their current debt holdings into new notes with maturities of 10 to 12 years.

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U.S. Department of Defense U.S. defense officials held a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting today with People's Republic of China (PRC) defense officials at the invitation of the Department of Defense to discuss its recently released Cyber Strategy Summary , in accordance with the 2014 U.S.-PRC Memorandum of Understanding on Notification of Major Military Activities Confidence Building Measure Mechanism. Following the briefing, the two sides engaged in substantive discussion on a range of cyber-related topics.

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U.S. Department of Defense U.S. defense officials held a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting today with People's Republic of China (PRC) defense officials at the invitation of the Department of Defense to discuss its recently released Cyber Strategy Summary, in accordance with the 2014 U.S.-PRC Memorandum of Understanding on Notification of Major Military Activities Confidence Building Measure Mechanism. Following the briefing, the two sides engaged in substantive discussion on a range of cyber-related topics.

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BEIJING China's Premier Li Qiang will attend the China-Asean expo in Nanning City, Guangxi on Sept 17, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. This year is the 20th anniversary of the expo, which is a key platform to deepen cooperation and promote trade investment liberalisation, spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular press briefing. "China is willing to work with all parties to further implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership," Mao said, referring to a free trade agreement among Asia-Pacific nations.

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An employee inspects a circuit board on the controller production line at a Gree factory, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, China Aug 16, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS/File photo BEIJING  – China ‘s factory  output  and  retail  sales  grew at a faster pace in  August , but tumbling investment in the crisis-hit property sector threatens to undercut a flurry of support steps that are showing signs of stabilizing parts of the wobbly economy. Chinese policymakers are facing a daunting task in trying to revive  growth  following a brief post-COVID bounce in the wake of persistent weakness in the crucial property industry, a faltering currency and weak global demand for its manufactured goods.

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A person works at a residential building construction site in Beijing, China Sept 6, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File photo BENGALURU  – China's economy will grow less than previously thought this year and next as a struggling property market dogs what was once the world's growth engine, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the risks were skewed to further downgrades. The world's second-largest economy has been struggling after a brief post-COVID recovery, dragged by huge debt due to decades of infrastructure investment and a property downturn, posing risks not only to itself but also to the global economy.

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What's new: Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with U.S. President Joe Biden at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi over the weekend, the Chinese foreign ministry confirmed, in the highest-level meeting between the governments this year as they work to mend relations. Li told Biden that China's development brings opportunities rather than challenges to the U.S., and the two countries should strengthen exchanges, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing on Monday.

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ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of the G20 summit and vowed Saturday to 'consolidate and deepen' relations, as Rome considers abandoning Beijing's 'Belt and Road' initiative of Chinese-built and -funded infrastructure projects. Neither government mentioned the initiative in brief statements after the meeting in New Delhi, the first between Meloni and Li. Rather, Meloni's office said the meeting 'confirmed the common intention to consolidate and deepen the dialogue between Rome and Beijing on the principal bilateral and international questions.

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JAKARTA - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang had a brief chat Wednesday on the...

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia has likely proposed that North Korea participate in three-way naval exercises with China, according to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea's top spy agency Monday. The briefing came days after Russia's Ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, told Russian media that including North Korea in joint military drills between Russia and China 'seems appropriate.' Matsegora added it was his own point of view and that he wasn't aware of any preparations, according to Russia's Tass news agency.

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NK-Russia-joint exerciseRussia proposed three-way naval exercise with N. Korea, China: NIS SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Yonhap) -- Russia proposed conducting three-way naval exercises with North Korea and China when Moscow's defense minister held a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in late July, South Korea's intelligence agency was quoted as saying Monday. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the proposal when he held a one-on-one meeting with the North's leader, National Intelligence Service Director Kim Kyou-hyun said during a close-door briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee, according to Rep.

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The founding of China's new top science and technology planner - a Communist Party body at the core of Beijing's technology competition with Washington - went quietly. It was not publicly known that the Central Science and Technology Commission, a new party organ stemming from a sweeping institutional revamp, had been set up or held its first meeting until a brief mention by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on its website in July. The science and tech policy planner is the final body to be established under a far-reaching overhaul plan targeting a handful of government and party organs announced in March, with a focus on expanding the party's direct control over policy priorities.

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An official from Statistics Korea speaks during a briefing on monthly industrial output in the central city of Sejong on Aug. 31, 2023. [YONHAP] Korea saw a trio of key economic indicators — industrial output, retail sales and facility investment — fall in July, as the effects of an economic downturn in China and sluggish automobile sales kick in. The industrial output fell 0.7 percent in July from a month earlier after standing still in June, according to data from Statistics Korea Thursday.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to end on Friday mandatory COVID-19 tests for travelers from China, joining other countries in dropping the requirements, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters. Last week, Japan dropped a requirement that everyone take a test for the virus upon arrival from China. The source told Reuters the United States would continue to monitor cases in China and around the world. The U.S. decision was reported earlier by the Washington Post.

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A Chinese envoy said on Friday that China calls on all nuclear weapon states to effectively reduce the risk of a nuclear war. "Mutual trust and cooperation among major countries are the fundamental guarantee for maintaining global strategic stability," Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United s, told the Security Council briefing on threats to international peace and security. Geng said that in January last year, the leaders of the five nuclear weapon states issued a joint statement emphasizing that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and reaffirming that none of the nuclear weapons are targeted at each other or at any other state.

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08:48 UTC+8, 2023-04-04        China urged Japan to be prudent on tightening export controls over semiconductor manufacturing equipment and avoid creating new complex factors to bilateral ties.   08:48 UTC+8, 2023-04-04        China urged Japan to be prudent on tightening export controls over semiconductor manufacturing equipment and avoid creating new complex factors to bilateral ties, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Monday. A few days ago, Japan announced it will tighten export controls of high-performance semiconductor manufacturing equipment, which is believed by many that this is meant to restrict China-Japan cooperation in the semiconductor sector, Mao told a press briefing when answering a relevant question.

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BEIJING – China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan from Saturday, the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command announced, the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States. China will hold 'combat readiness patrols' and exercises around in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east of Taiwan 'as planned', it added in a brief statement without offering other details. Tsai met U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy while in Los Angeles on Wednesday, angering Beijing, which views Taiwan as its own territory.

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(LEAD) Speaker Kim, China's top legislator agree on beefing up strategic communication for peace on Korean Peninsula(ATTN: UPDATES with Li's remarks, photo; RECASTS byline)By Lee Minji and Kim Na-young SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo and China's top legislator, Li Zhanshu, agreed Friday on the need to beef up strategic communications to resolve North Korea's nuclear issue and maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula. "We exchanged our opinions on the geopolitical situation of the Korean Peninsula and agreed it is important to sustain strategic communications between South Korea and China for the stable management of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and to resolve North Korea's nuclear issue," Kim said during a joint press briefing following their meeting.

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