Topic: Asia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-16 15:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Korea’s renewable energy leader seeks new industries and infrastructure to put clean power to work at scale
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[2026-09-16 15:45 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-16 15:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea breezed past Jordan 114-80 to reach the semifinals of the men’s basketball tournament at the Asian Games in Japan on Wednesday, moving within two wins of claiming its first gold medal in a dozen years.
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[2026-09-16 15:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
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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[2026-09-16 15:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday called for strengthening cooperation between South Korea and Central Asian nations, highlighting what he called the spirit of the Silk Road that once bound the East and West through exchanges.
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[2026-09-16 15:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A court in Seoul has ordered Pyongyang to pay roughly $32.5m for blowing up an office in North Korea in 2020 that was intended to foster better relations between the two neighbours.
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[2026-09-16 15:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Beijing, China – China is opening its first modern river-to-sea canal for navigation on Wednesday, a project that aims to dramatically cut down shipping distances between the country’s southern hinterland and Southeast Asia, a region that serves as a critical trade partner.
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[2026-09-16 15:24 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Kan Hyeong-woo is a staff reporter at The Korea Herald, South Korea’s leading English-language daily. Based in Seoul, he covers technology, business and industry, with reporting spanning the gaming, construction, mobility, consumer and emerging technology sectors.Through his reporting, Kan examines the business implications of emerging technologies and the ways Korean companies are positioning themselves in an increasingly competitive global economy.
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[2026-09-16 15:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BGF Retail, operator of convenience store chain CU, held a completion ceremony Wednesday for its 260 billion won ($191 million) logistics center in Busan, which it says is the largest facility of its kind in Korea’s convenience store industry.
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[2026-09-16 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- A new international trail running festival, co-hosted by Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key newswire, will launch in South Korea in December, organizers announced Wednesday.
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[2026-09-16 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: 1959 -- Typhoon Sarah hits South Korea, leaving over 900 dead or missing.
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[2026-09-16 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The incident happened shortly after the Sepehran Airlines flight took off, forcing the Boeing 737 to make an emergency landing.
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[2026-09-16 14:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Export-Import Bank of Korea said Wednesday it discussed expanding economic cooperation with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his visit to Seoul for the inaugural Korea-Central Asia Summit.
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[2026-09-16 14:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with meeting with PM in last 4 paras)By Park Boram
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[2026-09-16 14:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- As losses piled up for the men's national basketball team in the weeks leading up to the Asian Games, so did criticism of the squad. Fans and pundits alike wondered if South Korea, coached by the Latvian Nikolajs Mazurs, had what it takes to reach the podium at the Asian Games in Japan this month.
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[2026-09-16 14:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's largest theme park kicks off its fall festival as its youngest panda prepares for her debut
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[2026-09-16 14:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Traders are bracing for central bank decisions in the US, the UK and Japan and are weighing whether a Fed rate increase marks one-off move or new cycle
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[2026-09-16 14:48 UTC+10:00] [rate increase] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Traders are bracing for central bank decisions in the US, the UK and Japan and are weighing whether a Fed rate increase marks one-off move or new cycle
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[2026-09-16 14:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean men's national football team was delayed in getting to a recovery training session Wednesday after organizers of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games failed to provide an official bus, a South Korean team official said.
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[2026-09-16 14:33 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-16 14:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Temple upkeep costs are soaring while Japan’s Buddhist population has dropped about 14 per cent in the last two decades
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[2026-09-16 14:30 UTC+10:00] [Koukyo Yoneta] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Temple upkeep costs are soaring while Japan’s Buddhist population has dropped about 14 per cent in the last two decades
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[2026-09-16 14:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- Lee Hyun-jung was the offensive star for South Korea in its men's basketball victory over Jordan at the Asian Games in Japan on Wednesday, but the sharpshooting forward deferred credit to his teammates for doing the dirty work on the defensive end.
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[2026-09-16 14:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Government targets rollout by March 2027, with hospital-only prescribing and dispensing during initial two-year period
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[2026-09-16 14:09 UTC+10:00] [BUSINESS] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Jera, one of the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas buyers, is seeking to broaden long-term exports of the fuel as a way to expand its global presence and offload excess supply.
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[2026-09-16 14:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: BEIJING — While frontier U.S. labs have sounded the alarm on artificial intelligence in recent high-profile speeches, Chinese companies have largely kept quiet.
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[2026-09-16 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Compact and portable device can be used to analyse fossils and archaeological relics in the field, developer says
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[2026-09-16 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Liu Baodong] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Compact and portable device can be used to analyse fossils and archaeological relics in the field, developer says
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[2026-09-16 13:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance drone is displayed at the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Misawa Air Base on Sept. 8, 2024. (Photo by Konosuke Urata)
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[2026-09-16 13:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Masahiro Okafuji, chairman of the Japan Foreign Trade Council as well as chair and CEO of Itochu, urges a stronger yen for the good of Japan. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
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[2026-09-16 13:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS details from para 6)By Yoo Jee-ho
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[2026-09-16 13:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea breezed past Jordan 114-80 to reach the semifinals of the men's basketball tournament at the Asian Games in Japan on Wednesday, moving within two wins of claiming its first gold medal in a dozen years.
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[2026-09-16 12:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Retired PLA colonel says defence minister’s speech signals growing confidence and lower tension with US
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[2026-09-16 12:45 UTC+10:00] [US President Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Retired PLA colonel says defence minister’s speech signals growing confidence and lower tension with US
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[2026-09-16 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The fee is among a series of measures Yamanashi prefecture is introducing to deter reckless climbers
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[2026-09-16 12:34 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A Seoul court ruled Wednesday that North Korea must pay the South Korean government more than 44.6 billion won ($32.5 million) for demolishing the inter-Korean joint liaison office in Kaesong in June 2020.
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[2026-09-16 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan agreed Wednesday to establish a comprehensive partnership between their countries, with the South Korean leader expressing hope the new partnership will help expand the countries' cooperation in various areas, including critical minerals.
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[2026-09-16 12:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS photo, more details in last 3 paras)
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[2026-09-16 12:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson attends a press conference in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, on Aug. 28. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
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[2026-09-16 12:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Newly opened Pinglu Canal will allow cargo from inland provinces to reach the Gulf of Tonkin, avoiding a 560km detour, deepening trade ties
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[2026-09-16 12:28 UTC+10:00] [Chongqing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Newly opened Pinglu Canal will allow cargo from inland provinces to reach the Gulf of Tonkin, avoiding a 560km detour, deepening trade ties
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[2026-09-16 12:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing to integrate Japan's big supplementary budgets into the initial budget. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)
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[2026-09-16 12:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Vicent Creux, an Equatorial Guinean student at BUFS, hopes to turn his growing profile into closer ties between the two countries and, one day, his country’s first embassy in Korea
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[2026-09-16 12:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A Seoul court ruled Wednesday that North Korea must pay about 44.6 billion won ($32.5 million) in compensation to the South Korean government for the 2020 demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office building in the North's border town of Kaesong.
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[2026-09-16 12:12 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: As the rapid development of artificial intelligence triggers a renewed debate about its risks, the US and China keep racing to develop increasingly powerful models.
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[2026-09-16 12:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese defence minister officially opens the security conference with a warning about ‘zero-sum’ mindsets
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[2026-09-16 12:12 UTC+10:00] [Xiangshan Forum] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese defence minister officially opens the security conference with a warning about ‘zero-sum’ mindsets
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[2026-09-16 12:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court ruled Wednesday that North Korea must pay about 44.6 billion won (US$32.5 million) in compensation to the South Korean government for the 2020 demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office building in the North's border town of Kaesong.
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[2026-09-16 12:08 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Paris/Washington – The U.S. acknowledgment this week that the Pentagon is operating weapons in Earth’s orbit marks a landmark moment in space militarization aimed at deterring what U.S. officials describe as aggressive orbital activities from China and Russia, officials and analysts said.
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[2026-09-16 12:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES slug, headline, lead; REWRITES paras 2-3)
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