S. Korea’s Court Holds 5th Hearing Of Yoon’s Impeachment Trial, With Yoon Present

SEOUL, Feb 5 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s constitutional court, yesterday, held the fifth hearing of impeachment trial on President Yoon Suk-yeol, with the arrested president being present for the third time. Yoon presented himself at the courtroom in central Seoul at about 2:00 p.m. local time (0500 GMT), after attending…

China Sees Travel Surge As Spring Festival Holiday Concludes

BEIJING, Feb 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – With the Spring Festival holiday drawing to an end, China’s highways, railways and airports are seeing a surge of people returning from family reunions and festival celebrations.– NNN-XINHUA

Uzbekistan Exported Peppers Worth 8.9 Million USD Last Year

TASHKENT, Feb 4 (NNN-UzA) – Uzbekistan exported peppers worth 8.9 million U.S. dollars, last year, the country’s Statistics Agency said, yesterday. Last year, Uzbekistan exported 6,400 tonnes of peppers worth 8.9 million dollars, according to a report posted on the agency’s website. Among the countries importing Uzbek peppers, Kazakhstan ranked…

Cambodia Completes Restoration Of Ancient Temple In UNESCO-Listed Angkor Park

PHNOM PENH, Feb 4 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia completed the restoration of a more than 1,000-year-old brick temple, on the north side of Phnom Krom Temple, in the UNESCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park, the APSARA National Authority (ANA) said in a news release, yesterday. Ros Visoth, a conservation officer of the ANA’s…

Report Reveals 9.6-Billion-USD Annual Cost Of Saving Australian Species From Extinction

SYDNEY, Feb 4 (NNN-AAP) – Saving Australia’s priority species from extinction would cost almost 10 billion U.S. dollars annually, for 30 years, a new report found. The report, published today, found that preventing extinction for 99 priority species would cost an estimated 15.6 billion Australian dollars (9.6 billion U.S. dollars)…

6.1-Magnitude Quake Jolted Off Indonesia’s North Maluku, No Tsunami Alert Issued

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (NNN-ANTARA) – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked off Indonesia’s North Maluku province, early today, without prompting large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The agency had first issued the quake’s magnitude at 6.2 before revising it. The earthquake struck at 04:35 a.m. Jakarta time today…

S. Korea’s Online Shopping Grew 5.8 Percent Last Year

SEOUL, Feb 4 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s online shopping, grew in single digits last year, owing to strong demand for food, car accessories, and the travel and transport service, statistical office data showed, today. Shopping in cyberspace mounted 5.8 percent to 242.09 trillion won (165.9 billion U.S. dollars) last year,…

Shocking West Bank Scenes Undermine Gaza Ceasefire Agreement: UNRWA

RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), warned yesterday that, the “shocking scenes in the West Bank, undermine the ceasefire reached in Gaza and risk a new escalation.” In a press statement, the UNRWA said, a series of controlled detonations by…

Iranian President Vows To Strengthen All-Out Ties With Azerbaijan

TEHRAN, Feb 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, yesterday, expressed his country’s willingness to strengthen all-out relations with Azerbaijan. He made the remarks during a meeting with Hikmat Hajiyev, assistant to the Azerbaijani president, and head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration, in the Iranian…

Iran, Iraq Agree To Expand Cooperation To Ensure Regional Security, Stability

TEHRAN, Feb 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran and Iraq, yesterday, highlighted the necessity to expand bilateral cooperation, to ensure security and stability in the West Asia region, the ICANA news agency of the Iranian parliament reported. At a joint press conference, following their meeting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran’s Parliament…