Topic: Asia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-23 13:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi detailed to South Korea special envoy to Tehran about US-Israeli violations during the over month-long assault on the country.
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[2026-04-23 13:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Beijing auto show that starts this week presents Chinese automakers like Geely a prime opportunity to showcase green models and ramp up exports to a world hit by elevated oil prices. (Source photos by Getty Images and Kyodo)
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[2026-04-23 13:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Optimism surrounding the Iran war and the global tech rally sent the Nikkei Stock Average to a historic intraday high on April 23. (Photo by Hazumu Urushiyama)
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[2026-04-23 13:32 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: China is making dramatic advances in outer space military technology that the emerging superpower could use against the United States and allies like Australia in a potential war, a visiting US military leader has warned.
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[2026-04-23 13:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Pasig City has taken over the Japan International Cooperation Agency-backed Magokoro elderly care facility after the completion of its one-year pilot implementation, with the local government set to continue and expand services for senior citizens, the local government said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 13:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Company pledges more partnerships to expand the agentic capabilities of its flagship consumer chatbot app
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[2026-04-23 13:12 UTC+10:00] [Alibaba] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Company pledges more partnerships to expand the agentic capabilities of its flagship consumer chatbot app
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[2026-04-23 13:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Katseye will start promotional activities in Korea from Saturday, landing in the country on Friday, label Hybe X Geffen Records said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Bojan Stojkovski via Interesting Engineering,
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[2026-04-23 12:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: More South Korean universities are launching foreign alumni associations, but for many graduates the groups mean more than an extension of school ties.
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[2026-04-23 12:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The US is concerned that several African countries revoked overflight clearances for Taiwan's president at China's behest, the US State Department said Wednesday, calling the incident an abuse of the international civil aviation system.
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[2026-04-23 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's special envoy to Iran has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran, an Iranian social media post showed Thursday, as Seoul seeks to ensure the safety of its vessels and seafarers stranded in the Strait of Hormuz amid Middle East tensions.
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[2026-04-23 12:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A timeline for the handover of wartime operational control (OPCON) to South Korea from the United States will be set in this year's annual ministerial meeting and proposed to the leaders of the two countries, Seoul's defense ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 12:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LG CNS has been named Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2026 for Korea, becoming the only Korean company to receive the honor this year.
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[2026-04-23 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is fully implementing its pledge not to discriminate against U.S. digital companies in line with summit agreements between the two nations' leaders, the foreign ministry said Thursday, pushing back on U.S. Republicans' claims of Seoul's "targeted assault" on American firms.
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[2026-04-23 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is set to launch a nationwide shopping festival at duty-free stores this weekend to attract more tourists and boost local consumption, its organizers said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 12:03 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea will accept a record 93,500 foreign seasonal workers for the agriculture sector in the first half, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will accept a record 93,500 foreign seasonal workers for the agriculture sector in the first half, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 11:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead with more details; ADDS comments, details in paras 6, 11-13, additional photo)
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[2026-04-23 11:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Australia’s Carlo Tizzano makes a run during a rugby test between the Wallabies and Japan in Tokyo, on Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)
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[2026-04-23 11:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's customs authorities said Thursday it seized more than 650 kilograms of illegal drugs coming from Cambodia and Thailand at the border in the first quarter, during joint crackdown operations with customs agencies of the two countries.
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[2026-04-23 11:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea and Russia are dramatically expanding high-level exchanges, with three Russian ministers visiting the North at the same time, as they mark the first anniversary of the recapture of the Kursk region next week amid Moscow's war with Ukraine, according to Pyongyang's state media Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 11:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and Russia are dramatically expanding high-level exchanges, with three Russian ministers visiting the North at the same time, as they mark the first anniversary of the recapture of the Kursk region next week amid Moscow's war with Ukraine, according to Pyongyang's state media Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic AI amounts to 1,882,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, vastly more than Western rankings suggest
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[2026-04-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Domestic AI amounts to 1,882,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, vastly more than Western rankings suggest
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[2026-04-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Quasi-military schools accused of using ‘physical and sexual’ abuse to punish teenagers, leading to calls for better supervision
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[2026-04-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Quasi-military schools accused of using ‘physical and sexual’ abuse to punish teenagers, leading to calls for better supervision
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[2026-04-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Foreign investors net purchased 8.5 trillion won (US$5.7 billion) worth of South Korean treasury bonds since the country began phased inclusion in the World Government Bond Index (WGBI), a key global bond benchmark run by FTSE Russell, the finance ministry said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 10:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US leader sees ‘no time pressure’ on ceasefire while Iranian president says blockade, threats are ‘main obstacles to genuine negotiations’
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[2026-04-23 10:48 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US leader sees ‘no time pressure’ on ceasefire while Iranian president says blockade, threats are ‘main obstacles to genuine negotiations’
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[2026-04-23 10:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Optimism surrounding the Iran war and the global tech rally sent the Nikkei Stock Average to a historic intraday high on April 23. (Photo by Hazumu Urushiyama)
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[2026-04-23 10:24 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Despite the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, the South Korean economy posted its fastest quarterly growth in 5 1/2 years in the first quarter, supported by solid exports and resilient domestic demand, central bank data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 10:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rafael Jodar of Spain plays a forehand return to Rei Sakamoto of Japan during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin,File)
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[2026-04-23 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Since the start of his professional career in 2018, LG Twins outfielder Song Chan-eui has spent far more time in the minors than with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club. He has logged over 300 games in the Futures League but only played his 131st KBO game Wednesday night.
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[2026-04-23 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- New Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Shin Hyun-song and Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol agreed Thursday to strengthen policy coordination amid heightened market volatility stemming from the ongoing Middle East crisis, the central bank said.
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[2026-04-23 09:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has secured approval to export heat-treated poultry food products to Vietnam, the government said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 09:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s economy grew a stronger-than-expected 1.7 percent in the first quarter from three months earlier, supported by solid semiconductor exports and a rebound in investment, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 09:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS more details in last 5 paras)
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[2026-04-23 09:31 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: This week's Auto China 2026 seen as pivotal to Hyundai's China reset
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[2026-04-23 09:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea and the United States aim to meet conditions required for the transfer of wartime operational control to Seoul no later than the first quarter of 2029, the top US general in the Asian country said Wednesday.
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[2026-04-23 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: For years, and especially after the local stock bubble burst in spectacular fashion a little over a decade ago, China's "National Team" - a polite euphemism for the country's Plunge Protection Team - could be relied upon to step in and provide a lending hand - or rather buying hand - to stabilize stocks in the nick of time.
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[2026-04-23 09:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Despite the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, the South Korean economy posted its fastest quarterly growth in 5 1/2 years in the first quarter, supported by solid exports and resilient domestic demand, central bank data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 09:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Despite the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, the South Korean economy posted its fastest quarterly growth in 5 1/2 years in the first quarter, supported by solid exports and resilient domestic demand, central bank data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Containers await outbound shipment at a port in the South Korean city of Busan. (Photo by Ahn Seong-bok)
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[2026-04-23 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Containers await outbound shipment at a port in the South Korean city of Busan. (Photo by Ahn Seong-bok)
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[2026-04-23 09:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's business sentiment remains pessimistic for May due to prolonged Middle East crisis, a survey showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: An employee works on a production line for solar panels at a factory of GCL System Integration Technology in Hefei, China, in May 2024. (China Daily via Reuters)
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[2026-04-23 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Fund managers shift focus to Chinese and Taiwanese stocks, while reducing exposure to South Korea amid global market turbulence
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[2026-04-23 09:00 UTC+10:00] [HSBC] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Fund managers shift focus to Chinese and Taiwanese stocks, while reducing exposure to South Korea amid global market turbulence
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[2026-04-23 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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