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By Hallie Gu and Gavin Maguire BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese farmers have sharply increased corn planting this year to cash in on demand-fuelled record prices, a trend that is likely to cool t...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's government is floating proposals that would ban fans from all events at this month's Olympics, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Wednesday, as officials s...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Wednesday that its health regulator Medsafe has given provisional approval for a coronavirus vaccine developed by Janssen, the pharmaceutical unit of Johnson...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 57 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland for July 6, up from 23 cases a day earlier, the national health authority said on Wednesday. It was the highest daily tally of...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported more than 1,200 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since late December, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum told a COVID-19 response mee...

By Arlene Eiras and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - As Virgin Galactic finalizes plans for founder Richard Branson to join five others on a test flight to the edge of space on July 11, the British billionair...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Authorities in China's southwestern province of Yunnan reported 15 new confirmed locally transmitted coronavirus cases for July 6, with all cases in the city of Ruili, bordering M...

By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday its second-quarter operating profit likely jumped 53%, beating analysts' estimates, as strong chip prices a...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved the main text of a bill that will allow patents for the production of vaccines and medicines to be broken in cases of a public...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's socialist president-in-waiting expects mining firms enjoying high metals prices to be won over to "prudent" plans to hike taxes on mineral resources, a top advi...