{
  "id": 19649212,
  "title": "Taiwan to close Papua New Guinea office and halt spot-market LNG purchases",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/taiwan-to-close-papua-new-guinea-office-and-halt-spot-market-lng",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-12T12:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3374232/taiwan-close-papua-new-guinea-office-and-halt-spot-market-lng-purchases"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Taiwan will close its representative office in Papua New Guinea later this month after the Pacific island country repeatedly demanded its closure, citing its “one-China policy”. The withdrawal will cut off Taiwanese technical assistance and end decades of cooperation with PNG, including halting spot-market purchases of the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) – a move Taipei said could deal a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}