SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to surmount U.S.-led sanctions he says have inflicted “many hardships and trials” on his country, state media reported Wednesday, days after his country’s first nuclear negotiations with the U.S. in more than seven months fell apart.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s steel sector fragmentation is worsening, an industry official said on Tuesday, citing unplanned new capacity at small mills undermining government efforts to restructure and merge companies in the huge industry.
Beijing has been trying to consolidate the world’s largest steel market to curb excess capacity and pollution and has set a goal for its top 10 steelmakers to own 60% of production capacity by 2020.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Turkey’s ‘Operation Peace Spring’ in the northeast of Syria is necessary to protect the Turkish border and to eliminate terror threats that can undermine national security, said Turkish Ambassador to Malaysia Merve Safa Kavakci.
She asserted that it was also Turkey’s fundamental right to defend its security and safety of subjects within the Turkey-Syria border from the threats of terror groups – the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and People’s Protection Units (YPG).
NAGANO, Japan (AP) — The toll of death and destruction from a massive typhoon that tore through central and northern Japan continued to climb Tuesday, as the government said it was considering approving a special budget for the ongoing disaster response and eventual reconstruction.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary session that the number of deaths tied to Typhoon Hagibis had climbed to 53 and was expected to rise, as at least another nine people are presumed dead. Lawmakers prayed in silence for the victims before starting the session.
BEIJING, Oct 14 (APP): The pace of shifting global alliances is baffling even the most avid international relations observers. Big powers are abandoning their allies and developing
countries are leaving their neighbors behind to partner with distant nations.
14 October 2019; AFP: Hong Kong's more hardline pro-democracy protesters have embraced increased violence towards private property, businesses and even people, triggering some soul-searching within the movement. But few moderates are willing to abandon their more radical comrades.
Even by the standards of Hong Kong's summer of rage, the last fortnight has been brutal.
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- South Korean Justice Minister Cho Kuk unexpectedly announced his resignation over a corruption scandal involving his family on Monday, after "kindling" the reform of the prosecution office that has been viewed as an agency of excessive power.
"I was a mere 'wood to kindle a fire' for the prosecution reform. My role as the kindle wood came to an end here," Cho said in a statement.
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade maintained stable growth in the first three quarters of this year by expanding 2.8 percent year on year, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday.
Total foreign trade volume reached 22.91 trillion yuan (about 3.23 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first 9 months. Exports expanded 5.2 percent while imports dropped 0.1 percent, GAC data showed.
China saw its trade surplus widen by 44.2 percent year on year to 2.05 trillion yuan during this period.
PONTIAN, Oct 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) will hold discussions with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on the lowering of the threshold for foreigners to purchase condominiums and apartments in urban areas from RM1 million to RM600,000.
Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamarudin said there was a need to re-examine the policy, as there were many among the rakyat who disagreed with it.
NAGANO, Japan (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of troops and rescue workers were sent in here on Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history.
At least 30 people were killed in the typhoon that left vast sections of towns under water, CNA quoted public broadcaster NHK saying. Another 15 were missing and 177 injured by Typhoon Hagibis, which paralysed Tokyo on Saturday and dumped record levels of rain around Japan. About 100,000 homes were left without power.
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