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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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  • 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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  • USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Manila with proud Fil-Am sailors
    [“Our commitment to allies and partners and friends has never been more important to this region than right now,” Rear Adm Jeffrey T. Anderson said on Thursday. (Photo from Philstar)] MANILA: The United States Navy continues to foster its ties with the Philippines and its other allies by conducting military exercises, showing off joint capabilities with the arrival of USS Abraham Lincoln that’s manned by several Filipino-American sailors. “Our commitment to allies and partners and friends has never been more important to this region than right now,” Rear Adm Jeffrey T. Anderson said on Thursday, PhilStar reported. Select representatives of the media were brought to the aircraft carrier that was in the middle of the West Philippine Sea via a CMV-22 Osprey last week. Among USS Abraham Lincoln’s 5,000 crew members are Filipinos, some of whom have not been home in years. “The ship’s total mission is to launch aircraft when needed. We each have a role in the big, overall picture of having it conditioned to be able to launch an aircraft,” Logistics Specialist Senior Chief Petty Officer Rommel Pasive said.Filipino crew members will be given a chance to take a quick break while in the Philippines, with some of the sailors expressing excitement to spend time with their friends and family.
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    2022-03-28
  • PH Taal Volcano still restive, Alert Level 3 stays — Phivolcs
    [Phivolcs in its latest update, reported that the two subsequent events were recorded at 4:34 a.m. and 5:04 a.m. (Photo from Phivolcs)] MANILA: Two more phreatomagmatic events from Taal Volcano were recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) early Sunday morning. Phivolcs in its latest update reported that the two subsequent events were recorded at 4:34 a.m. and 5:04 a.m, PH Inquirer reported.“These events produced 800 meters and 400 meter-tall plumes, respectively, from the main crater that drifted southwest,” said Phivolcs. Phivolcs likewise recorded 14 volcanic earthquakes in the past 24 hours, including 10 volcanic tremors which lasted two to three minutes and four low-frequency volcanic quakes.Plumes as high as 1,000 meters, which drifted southwest, were also caused by the upwelling of hot volcanic liquid in Taal Lake, said Phivolcs.Meanwhile, the volcano and its adjacent areas are still under Alert Level 3 (magmatic unrest) which means that there is “a magmatic intrusion at the main crater that may further drive succeeding eruptions.”
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    2022-03-28
  • Canada pledges to help countries stop using Russian oil
    [Canada's biggest pipeline company Enbridge told the BBC it is "prepared to do what we can to increase energy security for both North America and Europe". Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is agreement about moving away from Russian oil and gas. (Photo by= BBC)] Canada says it can provide more oil, gas and uranium to help solve the global energy crisis. Prices have soared as a result of Russian supplies being squeezed because of its invasion of Ukraine, BBC reported. Canada's natural resources minister said many countries are committed "to help as much as we can in terms of displacing Russian oil and gas". The world's fourth-biggest oil producer has committed to exporting an extra 200,000 barrels of oil. It's Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told BBC News it would also export an additional 100,000 barrels of natural gas. It follows requests from its allies at a meeting of the world's energy ministers at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, which pledged to accelerate the move to clean energy. "We expect that by the end of the year we will be fully up to the 300,000 barrels," said Mr. Wilkinson. However, that is only a fraction of the three million barrels a day that the IEA says will be removed from global markets by next month because of sanctions against Russia. Canada is limited in how much oil it can export because its pipelines are running near full capacity, but Mr. Wilkinson says sending it via the United States is an option. Canada has joined the US and UK in introducing a ban on Russian oil. That has seen prices pushed up as high as almost $130 (£98.56) a barrel since the war in Ukraine began.
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    2022-03-28
  • Ukraine: No Russia regime change plans, says Blinken
    [Antony Blinken said it was up to the Russian people to choose their leader. (Photo by= Reuters)] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denied that the United States has any plans to bring about regime change in Russia or anywhere else. Mr Blinken's comments come a day after President Joe Biden said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, should not be allowed to remain in power, BBC reported. Mr Biden made the unscripted remark at the end of a speech in Poland. Mr Blinken said the president simply made the point that Mr Putin could not be allowed to wage war against Ukraine. The Kremlin dismissed Mr Biden's remark, saying it was for Russians to choose their leader. "I think the president, the White House, made the point last night that, quite simply, President Putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else," Mr Blinken said on Sunday during a visit to Israel. "As you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter. Mr Biden's comment prompted strong criticism from veteran US diplomat Richard Haass. The comments "made a difficult situation more difficult and a dangerous situation more dangerous", tweeted Mr Haass, who is president of the US Council on Foreign Relations.
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    2022-03-28
  • How the sex trade preys on Ukraine's refugees
    [Five weeks into Russia's onslaught in Ukraine processes across Europe screening those claiming to help Ukrainians are still far from foolproof. Refugees are forced to put their trust in strangers. (Photo from BBC)] Five weeks into Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, imagine for a moment what it's like to live there now. Most seek refuge in other areas of Ukraine, believed to be safer. But more than three and a half million people have fled over the border. They’re mainly women and children, as men under the age of 60 are obliged by the Ukrainian government to stay put and fight. "For predators and human traffickers, the war in Ukraine is not a tragedy," UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Twitter. "It's an opportunity - and women and children are the targets." Trafficking rings are notoriously active in Ukraine and neighboring countries in peacetime. The fog of war is the perfect cover to increase business. Karolina Wierzbińska, a coordinator at Homo Faber, a human rights organization based in Lublin, told me children were a huge concern. We met Margherita Husmanov, a Ukrainian refugee from Kyiv in her early 20s. She arrived at the border two weeks ago but decided to stay on, to help stop fellow refugees from falling into the wrong hands. "The women and children come here from a terrible war. They don't speak Polish or English. They don't know what's going on and they believe what anyone tells them. "Anyone can turn up at this station. The first day I volunteered, we saw three men from Italy. They were looking for beautiful women to sell into the sex trade.
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  • Myanmar army says it will 'annihilate' coup opponents on crackdown anniversary
    [Members of the Myanmar military take part in a parade to mark the country's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on Mar 27, 2022. (Photo by= AFP/STR)] NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar's junta will "annihilate" coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said on Sunday (Mar 27) as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests, AFP reported. The country has been in chaos since a putsch in February 2021, with more than 1,700 people killed in crackdowns on dissent, according to a local monitoring group. Presiding over an annual parade that showcased tanks, truck-mounted missiles, artillery and troops on horseback, Min Aung Hlaing told about 8,000 assembled security personnel that the army would not let up. The military will "no longer negotiate ... and annihilate until the end" groups fighting to overturn its rule, he said ahead of the Armed Forces Day procession in the army-built capital Naypyidaw. Jets flew overhead trailing the yellow, red and green of the national flag, while state media showed women lining the streets leading to the parade ground to give flowers and place garlands on the marching soldiers. Meanwhile, anti-coup protesters called on social media for a national "power strike" demonstration on Sunday evening. Armed Forces Day commemorates the start of local resistance to the Japanese occupation during World War II, and usually features a military parade attended by foreign officers and diplomats.
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    2022-03-28
  • Nationwide protests if Afghan girls' schools stay shut: Activists
    [The women's activists presented a statement issued by four women's rights groups at a press conference in Kabul. (Photo by= AFP/Ahmad Sahel Arman)] KABUL: Women's rights activists pledged on Sunday (Mar 27) to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls' secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the hardline Islamists reopened their institutions for the first time since seizing power last August, AFP reported. But officials ordered the schools shut again just hours into the day, triggering international outrage. "We call on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to open girls' schools within one week," activist Halima Nasari read from a statement issued by four women's rights groups at a press conference in Kabul. The Taliban should be building more schools for girls in rural areas rather than shutting existing facilities, said the statement, which comes after several women's activists were detained in recent months. The education ministry has so far not given a clear reason for its policy reversal, but senior Taliban leader Suhail Shaheel told AFP that some "practical issues" were still to be resolved before reopening the schools. The Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterized their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001. But many restrictions have still crept back, often implemented locally at the whim of regional officials.
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    2022-03-28
  • China and Nepal study feasibility of cross-border power grid
    [Wang arrived in Nepal on Friday after a trip to India. He handed over the new international airport constructed with a US$216 million Chinese loan in the resort city of Pokhara, 125km, west of Kathmandu. (Photo by=MONIKA DEUPALA via REUTERS] KATHMANDU: China and Nepal will conduct a feasibility study to construct a high-voltage power transmission line across the Himalayas to facilitate the exchange of electric power, officials said on Saturday (Mar 26), Reuters reported. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Nepali counterpart Narayan Khadka witnessed the signing of an agreement following talks in Nepal's capital Kathmandu. Nepal faces power shortages during the dry season and the planned grid would alleviate the problem through imports from China. In recent years Beijing has spent millions of dollars building or upgrading highways, airports, power plants and hospitals in Nepal, eager to gain influence on the country which acts as a natural buffer between it and India. In 2019, China and Nepal agreed to conduct a feasibility study for a railway network under Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative that Nepal joined in 2017. But no progress has yet been made to that end, officials said. Wang's visit comes a month after Nepal's parliament approved a controversial US$500 million infrastructure grant from the United States. Supporters of communist parties, including some allies of the ruling alliance, questioned America's motive. Wang arrived in Nepal on Friday after a trip to India. He handed over the new international airport constructed with a US$216 million Chinese loan in the resort city of Pokhara, 125km, west of Kathmandu.
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    2022-03-28
  • China plane crash: All 132 passengers and crew dead, officials confirm
    [Soldiers carrying shovels walk along a pathway to the forested mountain crash site on Wednesday. (Photo by= CGTN via Reuters)] Chinese officials have confirmed that all 132 passengers and crew died when flight MU5735 crashed on Monday in southern China. The China Eastern flight was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it nose-dived and crashed in a heavily-forested area in Guangxi. Rescue teams said they had identified 120 of the victims so far through DNA analysis, aviation officials said. State media reported that both black boxes have now been found. The flight data recorder - which could provide crucial information about why the plane crashed an hour into its journey - was recovered on Saturday. The first black box has already been sent to Beijing to be inspected by experts, Reuters said. That one is believed to contain the cockpit voice recorder. Though there had been little hope of finding any survivors, victims' families have been waiting for news from the search teams, which have been combing the heavily-wooded area for days. Meanwhile, Aircraft manufacturer Boeing - which made the 737-800 jet - said on Saturday its technical team is supporting the US National Transportation Safety Board and China's civil aviation administration with the investigation, Reuters reports. Following the crash, China's President Xi Jinping called for a full-scale investigation. The crash is China's most deadly aviation incident in nearly three decades and has prompted a national outpouring of grief.
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    2022-03-28
  • Honda's Asimo robot to retire after 20-year career wowing public
    [Asimo has demonstrated its human-like abilities overseas too. In 2002, the year marking the 25th anniversary of Honda's listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Asimo rang the bell of the stock market to open the trading session. Honda Motor Co.'s humanoid robot ASIMO performs at its showroom in Tokyo on March 20, 2022. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Honda Motor Co.'s Asimo humanoid robot will retire on Thursday, ending its 20-year career of wowing the public with walking and dancing demonstrations at a showroom at the automaker's Tokyo headquarters. Since its debut in 2000, Asimo has become a symbol of Japan's pioneering robot technology, mastering the abilities to run, hop on one leg, speak sign language using five fingers and pour coffee into a paper cup from a tumbler. But Honda stopped all development of Asimo in recent years after last upgrading in 2011 to give it the ability to make autonomous decisions such as avoiding bumping into someone while walking. In September last year, the Japanese automaker announced a plan to develop an avatar robot, allowing a user to operate it virtually from a remote location. The new robot will be equipped with a multi-fingered hand and an original AI-supported remote-control function, the company said. Ahead of Asimo's final performance, fans including parents with children visited the Honda showroom to meet and say good-bye to the child-sized robot, which looks as if it is wearing a spacesuit. Honda said it will continue sales of Asimo goods after the robot's retirement, keeping the character active. Asimo stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility.
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