World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record for the full year in 2022, UN data showed. Food prices soared to a monthly record high in March after Russia invaded agricultural powerhouse Ukraine, a major supplier of wheat and cooking oil to […]
Continue ReadingA domestic flight, operated by low-cost carrier, Jetstar Japan Co., made an emergency landing this morning, at an airport in central Japan, following a bomb threat, local media reported. According to police and airport officials, the aircraft made an emergency landing at Chubu Centrair International Airport, in Aichi Prefecture, at around 7:40 a.m. local […]
Continue ReadingIndonesia’s foreign exchange reserves stood at 137.2 billion U.S. dollars, at the end of Dec, 2022, up from the previous month’s 134 billion dollars, according to Bank Indonesia, yesterday. “The increase in official reserves assets in Dec was supported, among other things, by the tax and services, as well as, the government’s withdrawal of […]
Continue ReadingThe Vietnamese authorities seized 98 kg of synthetic drugs sent from Germany. Three people have been arrested for their involvement in this case, Colonel Pham Quynh, deputy head of the Drug Crime Investigation Department, under Hanoi City Police, was quoted as saying. Upon examining suspicious parcels sent from Germany to Vietnam, via Noi […]
Continue ReadingMyanmar attracted 170,357 international visitors in the first eight months of the 2022-2023 fiscal year, starting in Apr, 2022, data from the country’s Ministry of Hotels and Tourism showed, yesterday. The figure was up from 82,048 visitors who arrived in the country in the same period of the previous fiscal year, the figures showed. […]
Continue ReadingA Cambodia and south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region business forum was held here yesterday, aimed at promoting trade and investment ties between Cambodia and China. Approximately 150 Cambodian and Chinese officials and business executives attended the half-day event. Fu Jinming, deputy director of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, […]
Continue ReadingVietnam sent more than 142,000 labourers abroad, to work under contract last year, mostly to Japan, China’s Taiwan and South Korea, local media cited the country’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, as reporting, yesterday. The number was three times 2021’s figure and surpassed the target set for the year, which stood at […]
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