Topic: Asia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-28 15:43 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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[2026-04-28 15:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, stranded residents are evacuated on a boat after flooding from heavy rainfall in Qinzhou in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, April 27, 2026. (Zhang Ailin/Xinhua via AP)
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[2026-04-28 15:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings start with Rodong Sinmun—North Korea’s state mouthpiece—before diving into the day’s headlines from Seoul and Washington.
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[2026-04-28 15:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chinese economy is grappling with weak domestic demand, a prolonged property downturn and rising external risks
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[2026-04-28 15:38 UTC+10:00] [Iran war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chinese economy is grappling with weak domestic demand, a prolonged property downturn and rising external risks
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[2026-04-28 15:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Tuesday announced a plan to establish a graduate school next year in efforts to nurture more translators specializing in Korean literature, officials said.
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[2026-04-28 15:34 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s share of the global OLED market rose for the first time in nearly a decade in 2025, as domestic display makers strengthened their lead in high-end technologies despite intensifying competition from China.
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[2026-04-28 15:29 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea is expected to secure up to 90 percent of pre-Iran war naphtha supplies for May, the industry ministry said Tuesday, adding that major petrochemical companies are expanding their plant operations in line with inbound supplies.
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[2026-04-28 15:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Supply control, pricing power help secure memory as Chinese rivals face shortages
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[2026-04-28 15:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Tuesday ordered authorities to cancel 68.7 billion won (US$ 46.6 million) in taxes levied on the local unit of U.S. streaming giant Netflix.
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[2026-04-28 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: It remains unclear how Meta's $2 billion purchase of Manus can be rolled back after Beijing's national security review of the deal. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)
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[2026-04-28 15:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Kazakhstan’s green transition is drawing China and Europe, leaving Korea to seek a stronger foothold
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[2026-04-28 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1932 -- Yun Bong-gil attacks Japanese officials at a park in Shanghai where they gathered to celebrate the birthday of then Japanese Emperor Hirohito. The Korean activist threw two bombs he had hidden in lunch boxes onto the podium, killing seven top Japanese military leaders, in protest of Japan's colonization of Korea.
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[2026-04-28 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei index at a securities firm Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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[2026-04-28 14:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Court says key content storage and transmission functions were carried out by overseas entities, not Netflix’s Korean unit
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[2026-04-28 14:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Nationality is seen through the lens of fairness, placing public expectations on even private family decisions
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[2026-04-28 14:40 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ninety liberal lawmakers on Tuesday urged the US Congress to respect South Korea's judicial sovereignty in a letter to the US ambassador to South Korea, countering allegations of discriminatory actions against e-commerce firm Coupang and other US companies.
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[2026-04-28 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei index at a securities firm, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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[2026-04-28 14:28 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido announced that it has been forced to postpone its summer opening after a male employee admitted to disposing of his wife’s body in the zoo’s incinerator.
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[2026-04-28 14:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Bank of Japan's decision comes amid growing pressure on the economy from rising consumer prices. (File photo by Miki Kamiyama)
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[2026-04-28 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 77-year-old has taken up a full-time role as a professor with one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country’s northeast
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[2026-04-28 14:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 77-year-old has taken up a full-time role as a professor with one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country’s northeast
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[2026-04-28 13:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Executions rose sharply in North Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Seoul-based NGO.
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[2026-04-28 13:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Bank of Japan's decision comes amid growing pressure on the economy from rising consumer prices. (File photo by Miki Kamiyama)
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[2026-04-28 13:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Japan's central bank kept its policy rate steady at 0.75% on Tuesday, while revising its inflation estimates upwards as the Iran war raises supply-side risks.
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[2026-04-28 13:14 UTC+10:00] [Japan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
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[2026-04-28 13:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is expected to secure up to 90 percent of pre-Iran war naphtha supplies for May, the industry ministry said Tuesday, adding that major petrochemical companies are expanding their plant operations in line with inbound supplies.
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[2026-04-28 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's tax authorities said Tuesday they will begin receiving filings under the new global minimum corporate tax regime from more than 2,500 multinational enterprises next month.
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[2026-04-28 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has extended by three years the compliance period for corrective measures imposed as a condition of a major shipbuilder acquisition led by Hanwha Group in 2022.
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[2026-04-28 12:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- The Literature Translation Institute (LTI) of Korea on Tuesday announced a plan to establish a graduate school next year in efforts to nurture more translators specializing in Korean literature, officials said.
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[2026-04-28 12:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Shares of China's Contemporary Amperex Technology declined 8.5% Tuesday after the EV battery giant unveiled plans for a roughly $5 billion equity offering in Hong Kong.
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[2026-04-28 12:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Participants and visitors attend the SusHi Tech startup conference, one of Japan's largest startup gatherings, on April 27 in Tokyo. (SusHi Tech Tokyo)
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[2026-04-28 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- Lottery sales in South Korea are expected to increase 4 percent next year compared with this year's projection to about 8.42 trillion won (US$5.71 billion), the Ministry of Planning and Budget said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-28 12:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: "The security environment in the Indo-Pacific is becoming increasingly severe," Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's defense minister, says as he touts tighter Japan-Australia ties.
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[2026-04-28 12:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: "The security environment in the Indo-Pacific is becoming increasingly severe," Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's defense minister, says as he touts tighter Japan-Australia ties.
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[2026-04-28 12:10 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's military has identified the remains of another soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, raising the number of such service members to 273, the defense ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-28 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: North Korea has continued its surprising level of public acknowledgement of troop deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war, where it has maintained some 10,000 or more troops in support of Moscow. Starting last summer North Korea began issuing footage of coffins of slain DPRK troops being flown into Pyongyang, with Kim Jong Un in attendance.
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[2026-04-28 12:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Shanghai-based firm’s IPO reflects mainland China’s push for photonics chips as a fast-growing alternative to conventional semiconductors
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[2026-04-28 12:03 UTC+10:00] [Lightelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Shanghai-based firm’s IPO reflects mainland China’s push for photonics chips as a fast-growing alternative to conventional semiconductors
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[2026-04-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military has identified the remains of another soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, raising the number of such service members to 273, the defense ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-28 11:50 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Cumulative donations top W50b, leading imported carmakers in Korea
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[2026-04-28 11:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Battery maker says it plans to sell 62.4 million Hong Kong-traded shares for HK$628.20 apiece to at least six unspecified investors
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[2026-04-28 11:42 UTC+10:00] [CATL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Battery maker says it plans to sell 62.4 million Hong Kong-traded shares for HK$628.20 apiece to at least six unspecified investors
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[2026-04-28 11:30 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With the Greater Bay Area as the regional ecosystem, maritime tourism, blue bonds and marine innovation are three areas of opportunity
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[2026-04-28 11:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's top nuclear envoy has stressed the need to swiftly resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it the "most urgent" challenge to the nonproliferation regime, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-28 11:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top nuclear envoy has stressed the need to swiftly resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it the "most urgent" challenge to the nonproliferation regime, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-28 11:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, right, met with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana last week, in the first state visit from a leader of the country to Kazakhstan in 20 years. (Akorda, Kazakhstan's presidential office)
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[2026-04-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iconic bear with the ‘might of a divine beast’ goes from relative obscurity to world of international diplomacy over many centuries
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[2026-04-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iconic bear with the ‘might of a divine beast’ goes from relative obscurity to world of international diplomacy over many centuries
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[2026-04-28 10:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Executions rose sharply in North Korea for offenses including watching South Korean cultural content during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report showed Tuesday.
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