Births In Japan Hit All-Time Low In 2022

TOKYO, Mar 1 (NNN-NHK) – The number of babies born in Japan in 2022 slipped to a record low, falling under 800,000 for the first time, since records began in 1899, the health ministry said, yesterday. According to preliminary data, released by the health ministry, the total number of births…

Indonesia Prepares Industrial Park For EV Battery Factories In Kalimantan

JAKARTA, Mar 1 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia is constructing a 16,400-hectare industrial park, in its Kalimantan island, mainly for electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturers, Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, said, yesterday. “It will be the largest green industrial park in the world, and this is the future of Indonesia,” Widodo said, when…

Vietnam Plans Tax Hikes On Health Grounds

HANOI, Mar 1 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam’s finance ministry is seeking public consensus, on raising special consumption tax on cigarettes, beer and alcohol, and proposing such a tax on sugary drinks, saying that, the levy would help the country tackle health issues, local newspaper, Vietnam News reported, yesterday. The special consumption…

Children’s coffins mark tragedy of Italy migrant shipwreck

STECCATO (Italy), March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The coffins of 65 victims of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast were laid out Tuesday in a local sports hall, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died. Flower bouquets adorned each coffin in…

Australian Tourism Head Left For China Visit

CANBERRA, Mar 1 (NNN-AAP) – Tourism Australia (TA) has launched a campaign, for growth of the country’s number one tourism market – China. Phillipa Harrison, managing director of TA, today departed for a three-day visit to Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, where she will meet with strategic partners,…

Roundup: S. Korea’s Export Fell For Fifth Month In Feb

SEOUL, Mar 1 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s export fell for the fifth consecutive month in Feb, leading to a trade deficit continuing for the past year, government data showed today. Export, which accounts for half of the export-driven economy, dipped 7.5 percent from a year earlier to 50.1 billion U.S.…

US-China panel warned of communist ‘threat’ as protests erupt

WASHINGTON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A panel of US lawmakers tasked with scrutinizing Beijing held a debut hearing Tuesday overshadowed by protests from the public gallery as it focused on the “existential” threat of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Republicans and Democrats hope the “House Select Committee on Strategic Competition…

Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway Starts Operation, Maintenance, Training Class

JAKARTA, Mar 1 (NNN-ANTARA) – The first training class for operation and maintenance personnel of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) started Monday, in Indonesian Railway Vocational Technical School in Madiun City, East Java Province. Over 170 Indonesian students joined the class, who are mainly trained for professional positions of Electric…

Singapore To Declassify ‘albatross File’

SINGAPORE, March 1 (NNN-Bernama) — Singapore has agreed to declassify and release documents in the famous “Albatross File”, a file that Dr Goh Keng Swee kept in the run-up to Singapore’s separation from Malaysia, said Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information Dr Janil Puthucheary. Dr Goh served as Deputy…

US: White House gives federal agencies 30 days to enforce TikTok ban

WASHINGTON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The White House gave federal agencies 30 days to purge Chinese-owned video-snippet sharing app TikTok from all government-issued devices, setting a deadline to comply with a ban ordered by the US Congress. Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on…
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