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Chinese state media takes aim at Japanese firm KDDI over Mongolia wildfire

South China Morning PostPeople's Republic of China

Chinese state media takes aim at Japanese firm KDDI over Mongolia wildfire

Chinese state media has called for a Japanese telecoms firm to apologise to China over a huge wildfire in neighbouring Mongolia, as diplomatic tensions run high between Beijing and Tokyo. The grassland fire broke out on October 8 and burned about 80 per cent of a nature reserve on the Mongolia-China border. According to Japanese media reports, the company, KDDI, has acknowledged that the fire was linked to activities involving its majority-owned subsidiary MobiCom – the largest mobile network...

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