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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sacramento shooting: At least six dead in centre of California state capital
    [Police say the area where the shooting took place has now been secured. The area leads to the Golden One Center, where the Sacramento Kings play basketball, and is only a few streets from the state Capitol building. (Photo by= CBS)] At least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, police in California's state capital say, BBC reported. People fled through the streets after automatic gunfire rang out in an area packed with restaurants and bars. Police officers closed off an area between 9th Street and 13th after the shooting in the early hours of Sunday. They urged the public to come forward with any information that might help identify suspects. Sacramento police chief Katherine Lester told reporters that officers near a very large crowd in the area had heard shots around 02:00 (09:00 GMT).According to ABC News, the shooting happened near the corner of 10th and K Street. Community activist Barry Accius arrived at the scene at about 02:30 after a city council member called him about the shooting, he told ABC affiliate station KXTV."It was just horrific," he said. "Just as soon as I walked up you saw a chaotic scene, police all over the place, victims with blood all over their bodies, folks screaming, folks crying, people going, 'Where is my brother?' Mothers crying and trying to identify who their child was."
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    2022-04-04
  • Guantanamo inmate sent to Algeria after almost 20 years
    [The US says 37 detainees remain - including 18 eligible for transfer - at Guantanamo Bay. (File photo by= Reuters)] Guantanamo Bay inmate Sufiyan Barhoumi has been repatriated to Algeria, US officials say, after spending nearly 20 years at the detention facility, BBC reported. He was captured at a safehouse in Pakistan with a top al-Qaeda member in 2002, and accused of taking part in a plan to bomb the US. But the US Department of Defense said his detention was no longer considered necessary. It said Algeria had given assurances that he would be treated humanely. In a statement, the department added that US authorities recommended that Mr Barhoumi could be sent back to his native country "subject to security... assurance"."The United States appreciates the willingness of Algeria, and other partners to support ongoing US efforts toward a deliberate and thorough process focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility," the statement said. The department provided no further details about Mr Barhoumi. Algeria has not publicly commented on the issue. With the latest release, 37 detainees remain - including 18 eligible for transfer - at Guantanamo Bay, which is part of a US naval base complex in south-eastern Cuba. Since 2002, the detention facility has been used to hold what the US describes as captured unlawful combatants during America's war on terror.
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    2022-04-04
  • Japan sees rebound in COVID cases, experts caution against new wave
    [A signboard shows the cancellation of a baseball game in Japan's Pacific League between the Rakuten Eagles and the SoftBank Hawks in Sendai on April 2, 2022 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Japan is seeing a rebound in COVID-19 cases across the country, government data showed Saturday, as experts caution that another resurgence of infections may be around the corner, Kyodo reported.The number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in a week through Friday increased in 44 of the country's 47 prefectures, according to the government data, less than two weeks after Japan completely lifted quasi-emergency measures entailing business restrictions and other curbs. Experts on a government panel monitoring pandemic situations say new daily cases had been gradually declining for more than a month after the government began implementing quasi-emergency measures in January to contain a sixth wave of infections, but recent rises need to be carefully monitored given a notable increase in infections among teens.On Saturday, 48,825 new COVID-19 cases were reported nationwide, up about 1,500 from a week earlier, apparently as the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron strain spreads. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms stood at 518, down 15 from Friday. Other countries are also seeing a rise in coronavirus cases as the Omicron subvariant began to become a dominant COVID-19 strain at a time when they relaxed antivirus measures.
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    2022-04-04
  • Duterte reveals he fired DENR officials 'due to corruption
    [필리핀 영토] President Duterte said that he had fired several officials at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) because of their alleged involvement in corruption, particularly in reclamation projects in Manila, Manila Bulletin reported. Duterte made the statement during a joint meeting of the National Task Force and Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-RTF-ELCAC) in Region VII in Lapu-Lapu City on March 31. In his speech, the President said that he had appointed Acting Environment Secretary Jim Sampulna to the position following the resignation of Roy Cimatu– who had resigned due to health reasons– because he fired all the other officials in the agency. “We have a new DENR acting secretary because I dismissed some Cabinet members and this is about the reclamation projects in front of Manila,” he said in Bisaya.“I heard reports of corruption. So Secretary Sampulna is new because I fired them all,” he added. He, however, assured the public to trust that the government would get to the bottom of the issue through the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), and the Sandiganbayan.
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    2022-04-03
  • Kenyan towns hit by major fuel shortages
    [The shortage has been blamed on reduced imports. (Photo by= AFP)] Several towns in Kenya have been hit by major fuel shortages. The north-western and western parts of the country are among the hardest-hit regions. There are also reports that some petrol stations in the capital, Nairobi, are turning away motorists after running out of fuel, BBC reported. Sources say the crisis may have been triggered by reduced imports by big oil marketing companies - who are wary that they may not be promptly compensated for the government-subsidized prices they charge consumers. But the country’s energy regulator has attributed shortages to logistical challenges and says it is engaging oil marketing firms to resolve the crisis. The government usually compensates oil dealers so they can offer a lower price, but they say that they have not been paid for the past four months. Independent dealers purchase stocks through the big oil marketers, who are now giving priority to their franchised outlets after reducing imports. As a result, the independent dealers who supply rural areas, where big oil marketing firms don’t have large networks of dealers, have run out of stock. Kenya consumes 380 million liters of petrol and diesel every month, according to data from the regulator.
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    2022-04-02
  • Ukraine war: Russian troops leave Chernobyl, Ukraine says
    [There have been concerns about safety at the former plant since the Russian occupation. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Russian troops occupying the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl have left, the plant's staff say. According to Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom, staff at the plant said there are currently no "outsiders" at the site, BBC reported. Earlier, it said some Russian forces had set off towards the Belarusian border, leaving a small group behind. The announcement appears to confirm reports by senior US defence officials on Wednesday of a withdrawal. Russian troops seized Chernobyl at the beginning of their invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. "This morning, the invaders announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," Energoatom said in a statement on Thursday. It also confirmed reports that Russian troops had dug trenches in the most contaminated part of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, receiving "significant doses" of radiation. There are unconfirmed reports that some are being treated in Belarus. Reuters news agency quoted workers at the plant as saying some of the soldiers had no idea, they were in a radiation zone. The Russian military, however, said that after capturing the plant radiation levels at the plant itself had stayed within a normal range. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that it was unable to confirm the reports.
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    2022-04-02
  • FSPA: Areas under draconian law reduced in India's north-east
    [India introduced AFSPA in 1958 to put down separatist movements in certain parts of the country. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Authorities have withdrawn a controversial anti-insurgent law from large parts of north-eastern India after decades. Home Minister Amit Shah said that areas covered under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the states of Nagaland, Assam, and Manipur would be reduced from Friday, BBC reported. India introduced AFSPA in 1958 to put down separatist movements. The law was first enforced in Manipur and later extended to other states. It is also in effect in Indian-administered Kashmir where it was imposed after the outbreak of armed insurgency in 1989. Mr. Shah said AFSPA had been lifted completely in 23 of Assam's 32 districts and partially in one. The law has been in effect in the state since 1990. The law had also been removed from areas falling under 15 police stations in six districts of Manipur and an equal number of police stations in seven districts of Nagaland, he said. Human rights campaigners say AFSPA is often misused and has called for its repeal for decades. Calls to repeal the law intensified after six civilians were killed in an army ambush in Nagaland's Mon district in December. Eight more civilians died after troops shot at angry protesters who attacked the army's camp.The law will, however, continue to remain in effect on Mon.
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    2022-04-02
  • Asia's factory activity slows as Ukraine crisis, inflation bite
    [Employees wearing face masks work at a factory of the component maker SMC during a government-organized tour of its facility following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China May 13, 2020. (File photo by=REUTERS/Thomas Peter)] TOKYO: Most Asian factories saw activity slow in March, as slumping Chinese demand and rising raw material costs blamed on the Ukraine crisis added strains to firms already suffering from lingering supply chain disruptions, Reuters reported. While Japan benefited from easing COVID-19 infections, the spike in fuel and grain costs clouded the outlook for many Asian economies that are reliant on energy imports. China's factory activity slumped at the fastest pace in two years in March, a private sector purchasing managers' index (PMI) showed on Friday (Apr 1), as the fallout from the Ukraine crisis and resurgence in domestic coronavirus cases hit external and domestic demand. The slowdown in China bodes ill for Asia, which is host to big manufacturers dependent on consumption in the world's second-largest economy, analysts say. South Korea's factory activity slowed in March with new export orders posting the sharpest reduction since July 2020, as companies took a hit from a rise in input prices for goods ranging from oil, metals, and semiconductors. Factory activity also slowed in Taiwan and Vietnam, and contracted in Malaysia, as the region felt the pain from rising raw material prices, other PMIs released on Friday showed. But Japan's export orders slumped as external demand suffered from pandemic curbs in China and supply chain disruptions caused by Russia's war in Ukraine.
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    2022-04-02
  • Japan to allow up to 10,000 visitors daily from April 10: spokesman
    [In recent weeks, the country has been relaxing what Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called the "most stringent" border controls among the Group of Seven nations. The daily entry limit was raised by 2,000 to the current 7,000 in mid-March, ahead of the start of the new Japanese school and business year in April. (File photo by= Kyodo)] TOKYO: Japan will raise its daily cap on overseas arrivals to around 10,000 from April 10, up from the current 7,000, the top government spokesman said Friday, as the country gradually relaxes its coronavirus border controls, Kyodo reported. The latest move reflects the growing need for entry among returning Japanese nationals and foreign visitors, including students who wish to stay in Japan. But it still does not apply to foreign tourists. "Japan plans to increase international movements of people in stages by taking into account the infection situation at home and abroad and border control measures that other major nations have taken," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said at a press conference. Japan effectively imposed an entry ban on non-resident foreign nationals in late November to limit the inflow of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, drawing criticism from students, academics, and business circles that the measure was too strict. COVID-19 travel restrictions have prevented foreign students from traveling to Japan, with around 150,000 said to be waiting as of March 1. So far, over 10,000 of them have arrived in Japan, Matsuno said. The government has prioritized foreign students by allocating empty seats on weekday flights to facilitate their entry into Japan.
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    2022-04-02
  • Japan confirms 1st coronavirus case among Cabinet ministers
    [Seiko Noda, the minister in charge of gender equality and children's policies. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: The government said Friday that Seiko Noda, minister in charge of gender equality and children's policies, has been infected with the novel coronavirus, the first confirmed case among incumbents of the Japanese Cabinet, Kyodo reported. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike the same day warned that the more transmissible BA.2 form of the Omicron variant has been becoming dominant "rapidly" in new infections recently in the capital. Suspected cases of the subvariant in the seven days through March 21 accounted for around 52 percent, the metropolitan government said. On Friday, it confirmed 7,982 new COVID-19 cases, up around 700 from a week earlier. Noda had a slight fever in the morning and later tested positive for the virus, according to the Cabinet Office. She was not in close contact with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other ministers. Noda is in charge of launching a new government agency coordinating policies on children. Deliberations for the relevant bill will start after she recovers, said Tsuyoshi Takagi, Diet affairs chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Noda will stay at home until April 11 at the earliest, said the Cabinet Office.
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