• GM, 반도체 부족에 생산 차질

  미국 자동차회사 제너럴모터스(GM)가 반도체 부족 여파로 생산에 차질을 빚고 있다. GM은 1일(현지시간) 올해 2분기 반도체를 비롯한 특정 부품이 모자라 해당 부품만 빼고 만든 미완성 자동차 재고가 9만5천 대에 이른다고 밝혔다고 월스트리트저널(WSJ)과 AP통신 등이 전했다. 9만5천 대의 미완성차는 GM의 2분기 전체 판매량 58만2천 대의 16%에 해당한다. 산 차질은 GM의 2분기 실적에 상당한 타격을 줄 전망이다. GM이 이날 예상한 2분기 순이익은 16억∼19억달러로 금융정보업체 팩트셋이 집계한 시장 전망치 24억6천만달러를 크게 밑돌았다. 그러나 자동차 업계는 인플레이션 장기화와 경기침체 전망에도 소비자들의 신차 선호는 계속 강력할 것으로 보고 있어 완성차 업계의 수급불균형에 대한 고민은 깊어질 전망이다.

• Religious whipping marks Good Friday in the Philippines

  BULACAN: Catholic zealots in the Philippines whipped their backs bloody and raw on Good Friday, as the fervently religious country marked Easter with gruesome displays of faith. Scores of men — their faces covered — walked barefoot as they flogged themselves with bamboo whips under a blazing sun near the capital Manila, while others carried wooden crosses as they were beaten, in a ritual frowned upon by the Church, PH Iinquirer reported.Roy Balatbat, his skin still bearing fresh wounds from a public flailing on Thursday, walked for about a kilometer, striking himself and stopping to prostrate in prayer on the hot ground. “It’s punishing but if you have a wish, you will endure the pain,” Balatbat, 49, told AFP in Hagonoy municipality, Bulacan province. “I have been doing this for 30 years since I was a young man. My devotion is that I will only stop when I can’t do it anymore.” While most devotees in the mainly Catholic nation spend Good Friday at church or with family, others go to these extreme lengths to atone for sins or seek divine intervention.Before the grisly flogging begins, the men’s barebacks are deliberately punctured to make them bleed. Veterans of the gory spectacle display scars of previous whippings, while others endure the punishing act for the first time.

• 5% of Japan firms based overseas impacted by Ukraine crisis: poll

  [Blazing fire and black smoke rise from an oil storage facility in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 26, 2022, following missile strikes in the war against Russia. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Fifty-five percent of Japanese companies based overseas have had their business operations impacted, or foresee they will be impacted, by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a recent survey by a Japanese staffing firm showed, Kyodo reported.The online survey of 699 Japanese entities across 10 economies, conducted by Pasona Group Inc. in mid-March, found that firms based in France were by far the most affected with 92.3 percent responding they had been impacted in some way. As the only European country included in the survey, this was followed by Malaysia at 72.0 percent and Singapore at 66.7 percent. Of the 55 percent of the overseas-based firms, 43.2 percent said they already feel the effects of the conflict, while 22.7 percent said they expect to do so within a month and 26.8 percent within three months. The most cited impact among the 43.2 percent was soaring costs of raw materials including oil, chemicals and metals. This was followed by rising logistics costs and energy prices.The economies covered by the March 11 to 16 survey were the United States, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. The manufacturing sector made up the biggest group of companies at 43.6 percent, followed by trading houses at 20.7 percent and retailers and wholesalers at 9.9 percent.

• China reports highest COVID-19 new daily cases since Feb 2020

  [Police and security members in protective suits stand outside cordoned off food stores following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China March 29, 2022. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China on Sunday (Apr 3) reported a total of 13,287 new daily cases for Apr 2, the highest level since February 2020, with the majority in northeastern Jilin province and the financial hub of Shanghai which has virtually locked down the entire city. The country reported 1,506 confirmed coronavirus cases in the previous day, the national health authority said on Sunday, down from 2,129 a day earlier. But the number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, surged to 11,781 on Saturday compared with 7,869 a day earlier. Of the new confirmed cases, 1,455 were locally transmitted, with 956 detected from Jilin and 438 from Shanghai. Shanghai, home of 25 million people, will carry out city-wide antigen testing on Sunday and mass nucleic acid testing on Monday, a senior official from the Shanghai health authority said at a press conference on Sunday.Chinese Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan on Saturday also urged Shanghai city to "make resolute and swift moves" to curb the pandemic. The city has been striving to stop the outbreak by imposing a two-stage lockdown, prompting manufacturers to halt operations and causing severe congestion at Shanghai port, the world's biggest container transporting hub.

• China to cut paper and wood tariffs from New Zealand from April 7

  [Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China will implement an upgrade to the free trade agreement between Beijing and Wellington to eliminate tariffs of 12 wood and paper products imported from New Zealand from Apr 7, the Ministry of Finance said on Sunday (Apr 3), Reuters reported.The move follows the deal signed by the two governments in January to upgrade their existing free trade pact, allowing 99 per cent of New Zealand's US$3 billion wood and paper trade to China to receive tariff-free access over a 10-year implementation period. Import tariffs for products such as toilet or facial tissue stock and paper used for writing will be reduced to 6.8 percent and 4.5 percent from April 7 from current rates of 7.5 percent and 5 percent, respectively, and will be gradually cut over the next 10 years to reach zero."2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand and April 7th is the 14th anniversary of the signing of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA)," the finance ministry said in the statement. China has eliminated or reduced tariffs on 75 wood and paper tariff lines for New Zealand products since the existing FTA entered into force in 2008.

• Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium

  [An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Jalalabad province April 17, 2014. (File photo by=REUTERS/ Parwiz )] KABUL: The Taliban announced on Sunday (Apr 3) a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer, Reuters reported."As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country," according to an order from the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada. If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law," the order, announced at a news conference by the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, said. The order said the production, use or transportation of other narcotics was also banned. Drug control has been one major demand of the international community of the Islamist group, which took over the country in August and is seeking formal international recognition in order to wind back sanctions that are severely hampering banking, business and development.The Taliban banned poppy growing towards the end of their last rule in 2000 as they sought international legitimacy, but faced a popular backlash and later mostly changed their stance, according to experts.

• Religious whipping marks Good Friday in the Philippines

  BULACAN: Catholic zealots in the Philippines whipped their backs bloody and raw on Good Friday, as the fervently religious country marked Easter with gruesome displays of faith. Scores of men — their faces covered — walked barefoot as they flogged themselves with bamboo whips under a blazing sun near the capital Manila, while others carried wooden crosses as they were beaten, in a ritual frowned upon by the Church, PH Iinquirer reported.Roy Balatbat, his skin still bearing fresh wounds from a public flailing on Thursday, walked for about a kilometer, striking himself and stopping to prostrate in prayer on the hot ground. “It’s punishing but if you have a wish, you will endure the pain,” Balatbat, 49, told AFP in Hagonoy municipality, Bulacan province. “I have been doing this for 30 years since I was a young man. My devotion is that I will only stop when I can’t do it anymore.” While most devotees in the mainly Catholic nation spend Good Friday at church or with family, others go to these extreme lengths to atone for sins or seek divine intervention.Before the grisly flogging begins, the men’s barebacks are deliberately punctured to make them bleed. Veterans of the gory spectacle display scars of previous whippings, while others endure the punishing act for the first time.

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  2022-04-17

• 5% of Japan firms based overseas impacted by Ukraine crisis: poll

  [Blazing fire and black smoke rise from an oil storage facility in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 26, 2022, following missile strikes in the war against Russia. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Fifty-five percent of Japanese companies based overseas have had their business operations impacted, or foresee they will be impacted, by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a recent survey by a Japanese staffing firm showed, Kyodo reported.The online survey of 699 Japanese entities across 10 economies, conducted by Pasona Group Inc. in mid-March, found that firms based in France were by far the most affected with 92.3 percent responding they had been impacted in some way. As the only European country included in the survey, this was followed by Malaysia at 72.0 percent and Singapore at 66.7 percent. Of the 55 percent of the overseas-based firms, 43.2 percent said they already feel the effects of the conflict, while 22.7 percent said they expect to do so within a month and 26.8 percent within three months. The most cited impact among the 43.2 percent was soaring costs of raw materials including oil, chemicals and metals. This was followed by rising logistics costs and energy prices.The economies covered by the March 11 to 16 survey were the United States, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. The manufacturing sector made up the biggest group of companies at 43.6 percent, followed by trading houses at 20.7 percent and retailers and wholesalers at 9.9 percent.

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  2022-04-04

• China reports highest COVID-19 new daily cases since Feb 2020

  [Police and security members in protective suits stand outside cordoned off food stores following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China March 29, 2022. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China on Sunday (Apr 3) reported a total of 13,287 new daily cases for Apr 2, the highest level since February 2020, with the majority in northeastern Jilin province and the financial hub of Shanghai which has virtually locked down the entire city. The country reported 1,506 confirmed coronavirus cases in the previous day, the national health authority said on Sunday, down from 2,129 a day earlier. But the number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, surged to 11,781 on Saturday compared with 7,869 a day earlier. Of the new confirmed cases, 1,455 were locally transmitted, with 956 detected from Jilin and 438 from Shanghai. Shanghai, home of 25 million people, will carry out city-wide antigen testing on Sunday and mass nucleic acid testing on Monday, a senior official from the Shanghai health authority said at a press conference on Sunday.Chinese Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan on Saturday also urged Shanghai city to "make resolute and swift moves" to curb the pandemic. The city has been striving to stop the outbreak by imposing a two-stage lockdown, prompting manufacturers to halt operations and causing severe congestion at Shanghai port, the world's biggest container transporting hub.

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  2022-04-04

• China to cut paper and wood tariffs from New Zealand from April 7

  [Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China will implement an upgrade to the free trade agreement between Beijing and Wellington to eliminate tariffs of 12 wood and paper products imported from New Zealand from Apr 7, the Ministry of Finance said on Sunday (Apr 3), Reuters reported.The move follows the deal signed by the two governments in January to upgrade their existing free trade pact, allowing 99 per cent of New Zealand's US$3 billion wood and paper trade to China to receive tariff-free access over a 10-year implementation period. Import tariffs for products such as toilet or facial tissue stock and paper used for writing will be reduced to 6.8 percent and 4.5 percent from April 7 from current rates of 7.5 percent and 5 percent, respectively, and will be gradually cut over the next 10 years to reach zero."2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand and April 7th is the 14th anniversary of the signing of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA)," the finance ministry said in the statement. China has eliminated or reduced tariffs on 75 wood and paper tariff lines for New Zealand products since the existing FTA entered into force in 2008.

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  2022-04-04

• Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium

  [An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Jalalabad province April 17, 2014. (File photo by=REUTERS/ Parwiz )] KABUL: The Taliban announced on Sunday (Apr 3) a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer, Reuters reported."As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country," according to an order from the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada. If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law," the order, announced at a news conference by the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, said. The order said the production, use or transportation of other narcotics was also banned. Drug control has been one major demand of the international community of the Islamist group, which took over the country in August and is seeking formal international recognition in order to wind back sanctions that are severely hampering banking, business and development.The Taliban banned poppy growing towards the end of their last rule in 2000 as they sought international legitimacy, but faced a popular backlash and later mostly changed their stance, according to experts.

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  2022-04-04

• Pakistan heads for early election amid move to remove PM Imran Khan

  [Imran Khan, elected in July 2018 vowing to tackle corruption and fix the economy, remains popular with some voters, even though a lot of his public support has been lost as a result of rocketing inflation and ballooning foreign debt. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Pakistan's president has dissolved parliament - a step towards early elections - following an attempt to remove PM Imran Khan from office, BBC reported. It comes after parliament's deputy speaker refused to hold a vote of no-confidence the PM was expected to lose. Mr Khan claims the US is leading a conspiracy to remove him because of his criticism of US policy and other foreign policy decisions he has taken.Opposition politicians ridicule the allegation, and the US has denied it. Imran Khan visited Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin as Russia was launching the invasion of Ukraine, He has previously criticised America's "War on Terror". The BBC's Secunder Kermani says prime minister is widely regarded as having come to power with the help of Pakistan's army, but now observers say they have fallen out. In public, however, both the military and Mr Khan deny there has been any falling out. His political opponents seized the opportunity to demand the no-confidence vote after persuading a number of his coalition partners to defect to them.There have been only two previous instances in Pakistan's political history when sitting prime ministers faced a vote of no confidence, and both times Benazir Bhutto, in 1989, and Shaukat Aziz, in 2006, emerged unscathed.

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  2022-04-04

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• 캘리포니아 관광청, “클럽 캘리포니아 교육 세미나” 성료

  [캘리포니아 관광청, “클럽 캘리포니아 교육 세미나” 성료. /사진제공=캘리포니아 관광청] 캘리포니아 관광청은 지난 1일, 부산 롯데호텔에서 제2차 “2023 클럽 캘리포니아 교육 세미나”를 개최했다고 2일 밝혔다. 해당 세미나는 국내 주요 항공사 및 여행사를 대상으로 하는 캘리포니아 관광청의 온라인 교육 프로그램으로, 여행지로서의 캘리포니아를 소개하고, 지역에 대한 전문가를 양성하는 프로그램이다. 캘리포니아 관광청은 지난 1월, 서울에서 진행한 1차 세미나에 이어 이번에는 부산을 비롯한 경남권에 위치한 주요 여행사들을 대상으로 진행했다. 본 세미나에는 애너하임 관광청, 로스앤젤레스 관광청, 샌디에이고 관광청, 샌프란시스코 관광청, 부에나 파크 관광청, 팜 스프링스 관광청 그리고 유니버설 스튜디오 등 캘리포니아의 7개 파트너사가 참여했다. 총 70여 개 부산/경남권 여행사를 대상으로 진행된 오늘 교육 프로그램에서는 캘리포니아에 대한 기초정보, 주요 테마 별 여행 정보, 그리고 파트너사로 참여한 7개 지역에 대한 특색 및 여행 정보 등이 제공됐다. 한편, 캘리포니아 관광청은 매년 진행되는 본 프로그램을 통해 캘리포니아 지역 전문가를 양성하고, 여행상품을 개발을 지원하는 등 캘리포니아 여행을 활성화하기 위한 노력을 꾸준히 해 나갈 예정이다.

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  2023-06-02

• “일본 원전 오염수 해양 투기 임박, 윤 정부 소극적 대응 규탄”

  [9일 오전 여수 국동항에서 여수수산인협회, 한국수산업경영인여수시연합회, 더불어민주당 여수(갑/을)지역 주철현.김회재 국회의원과 도.시의원들이 함께 ‘일본 후쿠시마 원전 오염수 해양투기 규탄’ 기자회견을 가졌다. /사진제공=주철현 의원실] 더불어민주당 여수시갑 주철현 국회의원과 여수수산인단체가 한목소리로 일본의 후쿠시마 원전 오염수 해양투기를 규탄하고, 윤석열 정부의 적극적인 대응을 촉구했다.9일 주철현 의원실에 따르면 이날 오전 여수 국동항에서 여수수산인협회, 한국수산업경영인여수시연합회, 더불어민주당 여수(갑/을)지역 주철현.김회재 국회의원과 도.시의원들이 함께 ‘일본 후쿠시마 원전 오염수 해양투기 규탄’ 기자회견을 가졌다.주 의원과 수산인단체는 이날 기자회견에서, 일본 후쿠시마 오염수 해양 투기의 위험성을 지적하면서, 일본 정부에는 오염수 해양투기 계획 철회를 요구하고, 윤석열 정부에는 적극적인 대응으로 총력 저지를 촉구했다. 이들은 기자회견문에서 “일본 정부의 계획대로 올 여름 오염수 해양 투기가 현실화 된다면 바다를 삶의 터전으로 삼고 있는 어업인들의 피해는 불 보듯 뻔하고 우리 국민의 안전도 담보할 수 없게 된다”고 목소리를 높였다.윤석열 정부의 소극적 대응에 대한 질타와 비판의 목소리가 컸다.주철현 의원은 “윤석열 정부가 일본의 신뢰할 수 없는 데이터에 의존한 시뮬레이션 결과에 대해 무비판적으로 대응하며 일본 주장을 대변하는 듯 하다”며 “일본이 외교력을 총동원해 반대 여론을 무마하려는 적극적인 노력과는 너무 대조적”이라고 지적했다.특히 이들은 후쿠시마 원전 오염수 투기에 대한 윤석열 정부의 소극적 대응은 ‘친일 외교’ 기조에서 비롯된 것이라고 꼬집었다.주철현 의원은 “윤석열 대통령은 후보 시절부터 일본에 대해 한없이 너그러운 모습으로 일관하고 있다”며 “최근 3.1절 경축사에서는 ‘우리가 제대로 준비하지 못해 국권을 상실했다’는 해괴한 발언까지 하고, 일제 강제동원 피해자들에 대한 일본 기업들의 배상을 한국 기업이 대신하겠다는 발표가 윤석열 정부의 친일외교 기조를 입증하는 것이다”고 질타했다.수산인들도 “후쿠시마 원전 오염수의 해양투기가 인류에게 돌이킬 수 없는 재앙이 될 것이다”며 “무도한 일본 정부와 무대응과 방치로 일관하고 있는 윤석열 정부의 행태를 강력히 규탄한다”고 외쳤다.이어 “일본 정부는 우리나라를 비롯한 주변국에 후쿠시마 오염수에 대한 원자료(raw data)를 투명하게 공개하고, 오염수에 대한 검증 가능한 분석이 확인될 때까지 투기계획을 전면 철회할 것”을 요구했다.이와 함께 “윤석열 정부도 주체적이고 객관적인 검증을 추진하고, 국제사회와 협력해 투기 저지를 위한 잠정 조치 등 국제법적 대응에 나설 것”을 한목소리로 호소했다.

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  2023-03-10

• GM, 반도체 부족에 생산 차질

  미국 자동차회사 제너럴모터스(GM)가 반도체 부족 여파로 생산에 차질을 빚고 있다. GM은 1일(현지시간) 올해 2분기 반도체를 비롯한 특정 부품이 모자라 해당 부품만 빼고 만든 미완성 자동차 재고가 9만5천 대에 이른다고 밝혔다고 월스트리트저널(WSJ)과 AP통신 등이 전했다. 9만5천 대의 미완성차는 GM의 2분기 전체 판매량 58만2천 대의 16%에 해당한다. 산 차질은 GM의 2분기 실적에 상당한 타격을 줄 전망이다. GM이 이날 예상한 2분기 순이익은 16억∼19억달러로 금융정보업체 팩트셋이 집계한 시장 전망치 24억6천만달러를 크게 밑돌았다. 그러나 자동차 업계는 인플레이션 장기화와 경기침체 전망에도 소비자들의 신차 선호는 계속 강력할 것으로 보고 있어 완성차 업계의 수급불균형에 대한 고민은 깊어질 전망이다.

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  2022-07-02

• EU-뉴질랜드, 자유무역협정 타결

  [EU-뉴질랜드] 유럽연합(EU)과 뉴질랜드가 4년에 걸친 자유무역협정(FTA) 협상을 타결했다. EU 행정부 격인 집행위원회는 30일(현지시간) 양측이 지난 2018년 6월 개시한 무역협정 협상을 마쳤다고 밝혔다. EU 집행위는 이번 합의에 따라 양측의 무역은 최대 30% 늘어나고, EU의 연간 수출이 45억 유로(약 6조910억원)까지 증가할 가능성이 있다고 예상했다. EU의 뉴질랜드 내 투자는 80%까지 늘어날 잠재력을 지니고 있으며, 이번 합의로 적용 첫해부터 EU 기업들에는 관세가 연간 1억4천만 유로(약 1천895억원)가량 줄어들 전망이다. EU 집행위는 이번 협정은 뉴질랜드행 EU 수출품에 대한 모든 관세 철폐, 금융서비스·통신·해상수송·배달서비스 등 핵심 부문의 뉴질랜드 서비스 시장이 개방된다고 설명했다. 또 돼지고기, 스파클링 와인, 초콜릿, 설탕과자, 비스킷 등 EU의 핵심 수출품에 대한 관세가 철폐된다.

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  2022-07-01

• PH Comelec aiming for ‘COVID-19 proof’ elections

  [필리] MANILA: All the necessary safeguards are in place for a “COVID-proof” election, Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials assured the 67.4 million voters trooping to polling precincts nationwide on May 9, PhilStar reported.Comelec Commissioner Rey Bulay gave this assurance at a press conference yesterday amid fears of a possible surge in COVID-19 cases, following the Department of Health (DOH)’s confirmation that the highly contagious BA.2.12 Omicron subvariant has already been detected in the country. Bulay said all safety measures, set by the poll body’s “new normal committee,” are in place with the help of various government agencies to ensure the safety of all Filipino voters.“The new normal committee wants a COVID-proof election on May 9,” Bulay said partly in Filipino. “So Commissioner [Aimee] Neri went ahead and signed multilateral contracts with different department agencies for the control of the spread of COVID-19 and its new subvariants during the elections.” He emphasized that these safeguards to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are in place for the “present, during elections and post elections.”

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  2022-04-30

• Japan, Russia strike deal on salmon, trout fishing despite sanctions

  [일본 국] TOKYO: Japan and Russia have clinched a deal on Tokyo's fishing quota for salmon and trout spawning in Russian rivers, Japan's Fisheries Agency said Saturday, reaching an agreement on the issue despite Japan's economic sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, Kyodo reported. The two countries agreed on a quota of 2,050 tons within Japan's exclusive economic zone for 2022, the same level as last year, and payment to Russia of a "cooperation fee" of between 200 million yen ($1.5 million) and 300 million yen, depending on the actual catch. The lower end of the fee, which Tokyo pays to Moscow since salmon and trout, according to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, belongs to the country in which they were spawned, was reduced by 60 million yen from last year due to a decline in a catch in recent years. The two governments will sign the document on Monday. With the agreement, Japanese fishermen are expected to start operating in the EEZ near Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, in early May. On April 11, the two governments started negotiations for Japan's fishing quota for salmon and trout even though Tokyo has been stepping up sanctions against Moscow in an effort, along with the United States and European countries, to pressure Russia to stop the war in Ukraine.

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  2022-04-24

• Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020

  Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020, BBC reported. While suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths. More than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians. According to the research - which was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine - the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide. Homicides, the study noted, disproportionately impact young Americans. The overall rate of gun deaths of all reasons, suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined - among children and teenagers rose by 29.5%, more than twice that of the wider population. The rate of gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents rose among both men and women and across ethnic demographics between 2019 and 2020, with the largest increase among black Americans. A separate study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February, found that 7.5 million US adults - just under 3% of the population - became first-time gun owners during the pandemic between January and April 2021

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  2022-04-24

• 'Maximum protection' sought for Filipino teachers serving in the 2022 polls

  [필리] MANILA: Sen. Sherwin "Win" Gatchalian called on the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to ensure "maximum protection" for teachers serving in this year's elections, especially those located in areas of concern. He made the call two weeks before the national and local elections would take place, PhilStar reported."Teachers are our front liners in maintaining order in our elections. We should certainly give them protection from any kind of disorder or violence on the day of the elections since their lives are at stake," Gatchalian, who chairs his chamber's basic education, arts, and culture committee said in Filipino in an emailed statement on Friday. Citing data from the DILG and PNP, the lawmaker said that 105 municipalities and 15 cities may be identified as areas of concern or "red areas" which experienced election-related incidents and serious" threats" from armed groups. The Commission on Elections has yet to release the final list of places under concern. Teachers are part of the Electoral Boards (EBs). Members of the EB will receive honoraria, travel allowances, communication allowances, anti-COVID-19 allowances and service credits for their services from the government.

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  2022-04-23

• Religious whipping marks Good Friday in the Philippines

  BULACAN: Catholic zealots in the Philippines whipped their backs bloody and raw on Good Friday, as the fervently religious country marked Easter with gruesome displays of faith. Scores of men — their faces covered — walked barefoot as they flogged themselves with bamboo whips under a blazing sun near the capital Manila, while others carried wooden crosses as they were beaten, in a ritual frowned upon by the Church, PH Iinquirer reported.Roy Balatbat, his skin still bearing fresh wounds from a public flailing on Thursday, walked for about a kilometer, striking himself and stopping to prostrate in prayer on the hot ground. “It’s punishing but if you have a wish, you will endure the pain,” Balatbat, 49, told AFP in Hagonoy municipality, Bulacan province. “I have been doing this for 30 years since I was a young man. My devotion is that I will only stop when I can’t do it anymore.” While most devotees in the mainly Catholic nation spend Good Friday at church or with family, others go to these extreme lengths to atone for sins or seek divine intervention.Before the grisly flogging begins, the men’s barebacks are deliberately punctured to make them bleed. Veterans of the gory spectacle display scars of previous whippings, while others endure the punishing act for the first time.

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  2022-04-17

• PH experts back COVID-19

  [필리핀] If vaccines have an expiration date, then vaccine cards should, too. This was the consensus among medical and data experts as they supported calls to hasten booster vaccinations across the country, citing waning immunity and the possibility of new variants of the SARS-CoV2 virus, PhilStar reported. They expressed their opinions during the “PCP Health Forum: Isa, Dalawa, Tatlo, Sa Bakuna ay Sigurado” organized by the Philippine College of Physicians.“We need to have updated immunization cards,” said Dr. Maricar Limpin, president of the Philippine College of Physicians. “The tendency is for Filipinos to forget, and I think this [booster campaign] could be a good start, even for the other diseases,” pointing out that boosters are needed even for other common diseases. Boosters, she said, prevent the severe disease that leads to hospitalization and death.“We know how important vaccines are in building the wall of immunity and moving on from the pandemic,” said Dr. Rontgene Solante, member of the Vaccine Expert Panel of the Technical Working Group for COVID-19 Vaccine as he presented data showing that the more infectious Omicron variant is now dominant; that the risk of severe disease in the elderly and the very young.

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  2022-04-10