SEOUL, Feb 9 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a new record high, amid the spread of the Omicron variant, the health authorities said today.
According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), the country reported 49,567 more cases of COVID-19 for the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 1,131,239.
MANILA, Feb 9 (NNN-PNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), said today, it has approved a 2-million-U.S.-dollar grant, to support the Philippines’ emergency response, to the devastation in central and southern provinces, caused by Typhoon Rai.
Typhoon Rai, the 15th and the strongest of last year, that made landfall in the country in Dec, killed more than 400 people.
BEIJING, Feb 8 (APP): Top leaders of China and Pakistan reaffirmed their support for the high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), agreeing that the CPEC has significantly contributed to Pakistan’s economic and social progress, according to a joint statement released by the two countries in Beijing.
BEIJING, Feb 8 (APP): The joint statement issued by Pakistan and China at the end of four-day visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to China has triple significance as it charted the course for further development of the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, said on Tuesday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysian palm oil growers are benefitting from Indonesia’s new export ruling that came into effect on Jan 27, Maybank Investment Bank (Maybank IB) said.
The investment bank said Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) price gap between Indonesia and Malaysia widened further by US$58.75 (RM246) per tonne to US$329.14 (RM1,378) per tonne on Feb 3 from US$270.39 (RM1,132) per tonne on Jan 27. (US$1 = RM4.18)
SEOUL, Feb 8 (Reuters) - North Korea boasted on Tuesday that it is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and the only one standing up to the United States by "shaking the world" with missile tests.
International tension has been rising over a recent series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, actions long banned by the U.N. Security Council. January was a record month of such tests, with at least seven launches of nine missiles including a new type of "hypersonic missile" able to manoeuvre at high speed.
TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The diffusion index of confidence, a business sentiment indicator for the Japanese economy, logged the steepest plunge in over a decade in January amid concerns fueled by COVID-19 infection resurgence, Japanese government statistics showed Tuesday.
The figure, which measures the current business confidence compared to three months ago among "economy watchers," workers with jobs sensitive to economic trends like taxi drivers and restaurant staff, decreased 19.6 points from December to 37.9, according to the Cabinet Office.
HONG KONG, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The office of the commissioner of the Chinese foreign ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Tuesday strongly rejected the so-called statement issued by Britain and some other members of the "Media Freedom Coalition".
The office firmly rejected the so-called statement which slandered Hong Kong's press freedom and smeared the HKSAR government's law enforcement activities, said a spokesperson of the office.
BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that Lithuania should stop engaging in malicious hype and asking others to join its acts against China.
According to media reports, the Lithuanian foreign minister said in an interview that the main topic of his upcoming visit to Australia would be how Lithuania and Australia can help each other to deal with China's "coercion" and trade sanctions.
BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- China firmly opposes the adding of 33 Chinese entities to the U.S. export-control "unverified list," urging the United States to correct its wrongdoing and return to the right track of win-win cooperation, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.
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