Topic: Asia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-07 18:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing is pushing for a stronger yuan to help globalise the currency, but the upswing could create issues for the country’s export giants
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[2026-05-07 18:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Busan Lotus Lantern Festival
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[2026-05-07 18:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LAPU-LAPU CITY — The maritime issues in the South China Sea will return to the discussion table in Cebu this week as leaders open the 48th Asean Summit with negotiations on a Code of Conduct (COC) set for another discourse alongside broader regional security and economic priorities.
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[2026-05-07 18:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Long Time Technology Co requires employees to ‘stay away from any political behaviour that undermines peace and stability’: statement
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[2026-05-07 18:06 UTC+10:00] [mainland China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Long Time Technology Co requires employees to ‘stay away from any political behaviour that undermines peace and stability’: statement
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[2026-05-07 17:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The main opposition People Power Party on Thursday boycotted the plenary session of South Korea's National Assembly, where a motion to amend the Constitution was tabled.
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[2026-05-07 17:54 UTC+10:00] [National News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-05-07 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top general on Thursday visited a key Air Force unit in the central region and inspected the country's air defense posture, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
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[2026-05-07 17:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Tesla topped South Korea’s imported car market for the third consecutive month in April, fueled by robust electric vehicle demand amid high fuel prices, industry data showed Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Min-seok ordered a thorough investigation Thursday into suspicions that Korea National Railway internally circulated content of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law decree and tried to implement it even after the National Assembly demanded the lifting of the illegal act.
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[2026-05-07 17:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS throughout; CHANGES headline; ADDS photo)
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[2026-05-07 17:25 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Naval forces from the Philippines, the United States, Japan, Canada and Australia conducted a live-fire gunnery exercise on April 26 as part of the sea phase of Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) drills, the Philippine Navy said on Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 17:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry said Thursday it will approve a planned visit by a North Korean women's football team to South Korea, based on information submitted by the Korean Football Association (KFA).
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[2026-05-07 17:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El senador estadounidense Steve Daines, a la izquierda, es recibido por el ministro chino de Exteriores, Wang Yi, durante una visita de una delegación de congresistas, en el Gran Salón del Pueblo, en Beijing, el jueves 7 de mayo de 2026. (AP Foto/Andy Wong, Pool)
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[2026-05-07 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran says it ‘firmly rejects and categorically denies’ allegations that it was responsible for the explosion on board the HMM Namu
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[2026-05-07 17:18 UTC+10:00] [HMM] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran says it ‘firmly rejects and categorically denies’ allegations that it was responsible for the explosion on board the HMM Namu
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[2026-05-07 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From former wine critic on passion for endurance sport to art show on East, West gardens, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting
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[2026-05-07 17:15 UTC+10:00] [Alzheimer's gene] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From former wine critic on passion for endurance sport to art show on East, West gardens, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting
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[2026-05-07 17:01 UTC+10:00] [Northeast Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-07 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk plans to visit South Korea next week to meet with government officials, civic activists and North Korean defectors, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has significantly tamped down its hostility toward South Korea in its recently revised constitution, while maintaining leader Kim Jong-un's stance on treating the Koreas as two states, Seoul's spy agency said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. defense tech firm Anduril Industries Inc. said Thursday it plans to expand partnerships with South Korean defense companies by combining its artificial intelligence (AI) platform with the country's advanced manufacturing capabilities across various weapons systems.
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[2026-05-07 16:51 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: “Why didn’t you just run away?” “You must have been looking for men.”
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[2026-05-07 16:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korea Herald correspondent
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[2026-05-07 16:33 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: PAOAY, Philippines — China was angered after Japan fired surface-to-ship missiles and sank an old warship in waters between the Philippines and Taiwan during large-scale military exercises involving US forces.
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[2026-05-07 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead with latest info; ADDS more details in paras 3, 6-7; CHANGES photo)
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[2026-05-07 16:25 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-07 16:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Senator Steve Daines, left, is greeted by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a U.S. congressional delegation visit at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)
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[2026-05-07 16:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean and Chinese business leaders discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in strategic industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and batteries at a forum in Shanghai on Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-07 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- With less than a month remaining until the June 3 local elections, South Korea is gearing up for the pivotal event widely expected to reshape the country's political landscape and determine the future momentum of President Lee Jae Myung's administration, political observers here noted Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 16:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TAIPÉI, Taiwán (AP) — El presidente de Paraguay, Santiago Peña, llegó a Taiwán el jueves en su primera visita a la isla autogobernada que Beijing reclama como parte de su territorio.
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[2026-05-07 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Former barber’s assistant evades hair-raising amount of duties; acknowledges ‘mistake’, accepts punishment
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[2026-05-07 16:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Former barber’s assistant evades hair-raising amount of duties; acknowledges ‘mistake’, accepts punishment
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[2026-05-07 15:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Eighty-three-year-old Rep. Park Ji-won, the oldest sitting member of the National Assembly, is running in the Democratic Party of Korea’s race to become speaker for the latter half of the 22nd National Assembly.
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[2026-05-07 15:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean civic groups are organizing cheering squads to welcome North Korea’s Naegohyang Women’s Football Club, which is scheduled to face a South Korean team in the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Champions League on May 20 at 7 p.m. at Suwon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province.
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[2026-05-07 15:47 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LG CNS, the IT services arm of LG Group and one of Korea's largest systems integrators, on Thursday launched a software platform to run fleets of robots from different manufacturers under a single control layer — a problem that has long required custom engineering to coordinate the machines.
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[2026-05-07 15:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña arrived in Taiwan on Thursday on his first visit to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
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[2026-05-07 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will begin drafting a report to submit to the United Nations on the progress the country has made in implementing the 17 U.N.-designated sustainable development goals (SDGs), the first such report in 10 years, officials said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has called on the international community to jointly respond to the recent spread of trade restrictive measures by major economies in a high-level meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations, the trade ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Italian Ambassador to Korea Emilia Gatto urged closer cooperation with Korea in a field where she said Italian know-how is built on both deep tradition and advanced technology.
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[2026-05-07 15:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-05-07 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson has stressed the importance of an "east-up" perspective view in the Indo-Pacific theater, stressing a "coherent strategic geometry" of South Korea, Japan and the Philippines in the region, according to the USFK website Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka meets with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Photo acquired by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-07 15:08 UTC+10:00] [Asia Pacific] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-05-07 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) have failed to cooperate properly on nuclear power plant export projects, resulting in overlapping expenditures and other inefficiencies, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1442 -- King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) orders the development of a rain gauge. The king is best known in Korea for inventing the Korean alphabet, Hangeul.
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[2026-05-07 14:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first homegrown KF-21 fighter jet has passed a "full" combat readiness evaluation, marking the completion of the final phase of the performance verification process in its development, the state arms procurement agency said Thursday.
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[2026-05-07 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for his first sentencing trial in the insurrection case, in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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[2026-05-07 14:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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