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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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    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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  • SS Central America: Haunting photos recovered from the 'ship of gold' wreck on ocean floor
    [In the 1850s, photography became hugely popular, and people who had gone in search of gold in California would send photographs to loved ones back home. Ambrotype of a young woman. (Photo by=CALIFORNIA GOLD MARKETING GROUP)] In 1857, the SS Central America, also known as the "ship of gold", sank off the coast of the US state of South Carolina, along with some newfound riches from the California Gold Rush. It’s a hurricane that sealed the fate of 425 people returning to the US east coast, BBC reported. They went down with an estimated 21 tons of gold coins and nuggets from prospectors who had struck it rich on the west coast, but some passengers were also carrying something of more personal value - photographs. Salvaged from the ship's wreckage in 2014 were daguerreotypes, the first successful commercial form of photography - a one-off picture held on a metal plate - and ambrotypes, a type of glass plate photography. The photos are only being published this year. The shipwreck was first located in 1988, and there were missions to recover its sunken wealth over the subsequent years. The photos were recovered over a decade ago, but there was a "tortuous legal battle" over the gold found with the vessel on the ocean floor, said Bob Evans, the former chief scientist and historian of the SS Central America Project, which led the search and salvage mission for the wreck.Mr. Evans has been researching the SS Central America since 1983, calling it "an interesting piece of lost United States history".
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    2022-03-30
  • Russia-Ukraine war: Abramovich spotted in Istanbul peace talks
    [Roman Abramovich, who has Israeli citizenship, reportedly flew from Tel Aviv to Moscow by private jet on 14 March, 11 days after the alleged incident in Kyiv. He is seen sitting at a table alongside Ibrahim Kalin - a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo by=TURKISH TV)] Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has appeared at peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. He’s seen talking to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is mediating in the talks in Istanbul, BBC reported. Reports surfaced hours earlier that Mr. Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators had shown poisoning symptoms after talks in early March. Mr. Abramovich is known to have spent weeks in a mediation role, flying between Moscow and Kyiv. The Chelsea football club owner was said to have suffered sore eyes and peeling skin, but had now recovered, reports say. A Wall Street Journal report suggested he and the Ukrainian negotiators had been targeted by Russian hardliners in Kyiv on 3 March, but a Ukrainian presidential official later said the two Ukrainians were fine and one had said the story was false. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov poured scorn on the report on Tuesday as untrue and part of an "information war". Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, however, told national TV hours before the talks that he had advised his colleagues attending negotiations with Russia not to eat or drink anything.33Russian state news agency Ria Novosti released a picture showing Mr. Abramovich talking to the Turkish president and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the meeting. The exact nature of Mr. Abramovich's role in the talks is unclear, although Ukrainian media said he’s there as a neutral party.
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    2022-03-30
  • US to consider tariffs on Southeast Asian solar imports
    [The Commerce Department said it will issue a preliminary determination within 150 days. Auxin welcomed the decision. An array of solar panels is seen in the desert near Victorville, California, on Mar 28, 2018. (Photo by=REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)] US trade officials on Monday said they will launch an investigation that could result in tariffs on solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian nations, a blow to clean energy project developers that rely on cheap imports to keep costs down. The Commerce Department's decision regarding imports from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia was a victory for Auxin Solar. The San Jose, California-based solar manufacturer this year requested the probe, arguing that Chinese manufacturers shifted production to those nations to avoid paying U.S. duties in place for nearly a decade on Chinese-made solar goods. Auxin's petition is the latest in a string of efforts by US solar producers to stem the flow of cheap Asian panels that they argue to make their products unable to compete in the market. Solar industry trade groups said the investigation alone would immediately hamstring project development and harm U.S. progress in addressing climate change. President Joe Biden has set a goal of weaning the US electricity sector off of fossil fuels by 2035, a target that could propel solar to supply up to 40 percent of the nation's electricity needs - up from 3 percent currently. Imports from the four countries account for about 80 percent of the panels expected to be installed in the United States this year, according to the American Clean Power Association industry group.
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    2022-03-30
  • Ukraine crisis: Why India is buying more Russian oil
    [Financial analysts Bloomberg estimate that Indian exporters to Russia are currently awaiting payments equivalent to about $500m (£381.5m). Rising global oil prices are a concern for India's policymakers. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Russia is seeking new markets for its oil exports as Western sanctions tighten, and India has been taking advantage of discounted prices to ramp up imports from the country. The US has said that although these oil imports do not violate sanctions, "support for Russia...is support for an invasion that obviously is having a devastating impact", BBC reported. After the US and China, India is the world's third-largest consumer of oil, over 80% of which is imported. In 2021, India bought about 12 million barrels of oil from Russia, only 2% of its total imports. By far the largest supplies last year came from the Middle East, with significant quantities also from the US and Nigeria. In January and February, India didn't import any oil from Russia. But contracts for March and April have already reached six million barrels, according to data compiled by Kpler, a commodities research group. The Indian government says even if it buys more oil from Russia, it would "still be a drop, literally a drop, in a larger bucket" of its oil imports globally. Following its invasion of Ukraine, there are now fewer buyers for Russia's Ural crude oil, and its price has fallen. India's big refining companies are facing a challenge trying to finance these discounted purchases, because of sanctions on Russian banks. It's a problem facing trade in both directions.
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    2022-03-30
  • Solomon Islands confirms security negotiations with China, will not 'pick sides'
    [Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York on Sep 23, 2016. (File photo by=Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)] SYDNEY: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said that the backlash to his country's security negotiations with China was "very insulting", in his first comments on a proposed security treaty he said was being finalized. Sogavare told his parliament on Tuesday (Mar 29) that a leaked security document with China was a draft and he would not give details on the content of any proposed deal, Reuters reported. "We are not pressured in any way by our new friends and there is no intention whatsoever to ask China to build a military base in the Solomon Islands," he said. The islands switched diplomatic allegiance to mainland China from Taiwan in 2019. Australia, New Zealand, and the United States have expressed concern about the potential for a security pact between the Pacific Island and China after a leaked draft showed it would cover Chinese navy vessels. In a speech to parliament, Sogavare expressed criticism of larger countries who he said didn't care if Pacific islands went underwater because of climate change and considered the region "the backyard of big Western powers". He also denied opposition claims that a security pact with China would lead to an autocratic government. The opposition has accused Sogavare of using a new police pact with China, and striking a security deal, to prop up his leadership.
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    2022-03-30
  • Shanghai tightens COVID-19 lockdown on second day of curbs
    [A police officer in a protective suit keeps watch next to a bridge leading to the Pudong area across the Huangpu River on Mar 28, 2022, after traffic restrictions were implemented amid the lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Shanghai. (Photo by= Reuters/Aly Song)] SHANGHAI: China's most populous city tightened the first phase of a two-stage COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday (Mar 29), asking some residents to stay indoors unless they are getting tested as the number of new daily cases exceeded 4,400, Reuters reported. The financial hub of Shanghai, home to 26 million people, is in its second day of lockdown authorities are imposing by dividing the city roughly along the Huangpu River, splitting the historic center from the eastern financial and industrial district of Pudong to allow for staggered testing. While Shanghai's caseload remains modest by global standards - a record 4,381 asymptomatic cases and 96 symptomatic cases for Monday - the city has become a testing ground for China's "zero-COVID" strategy as it tries to bring the highly infectious Omicron variant under control. Residents east of the Huangpu were locked down in their housing compounds on Monday but were mostly allowed to roam within them. On Tuesday, however, three residents told Reuters neighborhood committees had told them they were no longer allowed to step outside their homes. Wu Qianyu, an official with the municipal health commission, told a briefing that a "clear request" had been made to residents not to leave their apartments, even to take pets for a walk or throw out trash, during "a key stage in nucleic acid testing"
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    2022-03-30
  • Japan to lower adulthood age in April for 1st time in over 140 yrs
    [Photo taken at Yokohama Arena on Jan. 8, 2018 shows 37,000 people attending a coming-of-age ceremony. (File photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Japan will lower the age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in April by revising the Civil Code and changing the legal definition of an adult for the first time in over 140 years, opening up new freedoms and responsibilities for 18- and 19-year-olds, Kyodo reported. While the move aims to encourage active social participation by youth, there are also concerns they will become easy targets for scams after being allowed to enter into consumer contracts without parental consent. Changes to Japan's Juvenile Law to implement stricter punishments for 18- and 19-year-old criminal offenders will also come into effect on April 1. The revision will expand the range of crimes where 18- and 19-year-olds are referred to prosecutors from family courts and tried as adults. The revision will also relax rules for media reporting, allowing for the full names and faces of 18- and 19-year-old offenders to be revealed. With the lowering of the adulthood age, numerous related laws including those on passports, national licenses, and jury duty will also be revised, but people under 20 will still be prohibited from drinking alcohol, smoking, and gambling. Some experts fret that, stripped of the protection of a clause that allows a minor's contracts to be canceled by the individual or their guardian, those with minimal experience as adults could be particularly susceptible to scams.
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    2022-03-30
  • Japan had fewer foreign residents in 2021 amid COVID 19 border controls
    [Special permanent residents are ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese whose families lost Japanese citizenship but remained in the country after World War II. (Photo from eastasiaforum)] TOKYO: Japan had fewer foreign residents as of the end of 2021, down 4.4 percent from a year before, apparently due to its tighter border controls amid the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Tuesday, Kyodo reported. The number stood at 2,760,635, marking the second yearly decline, with that of technical interns and international students dropping 27.0 percent and 26.0 percent, respectively, according to the data released by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan. The number of permanent residents, the largest group of foreigners permitted to stay in the country, increased 2.9 percent to 831,157, the agency said. By prefecture, only Yamanashi and Shimane among Japan's 47 prefectures saw a slight rise in the number of foreign residents, while Tokyo hosted the largest number of them with 531,131, followed by Aichi, Osaka, Kanagawa, and Saitama. Foreign nationals who were ordered to be deported and sent back home for violating Japan's immigration law fell by 1,328 from a year before to 4,122 as many flight services were discontinued due to the effects of the pandemic. The official data do not include the number of diplomats and special permanent residents, among other categories of foreigners living in Japan. Special permanent residents are ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese whose families lost Japanese citizenship but remained in the country after World War II.
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    2022-03-30
  • PM Kishida says Japan to craft new economic package by end of April
    [Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in the parliament in Tokyo on March 28, 2022. Kishida announced last week an extension of subsidies for oil wholesalers to drive down retail prices, by one month to the end of April. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his government will compile an additional economic package by the end of April to soften the impact of rising crude oil, food and other prices and ensure a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic Kyodo reported. The yen's depreciation is posing a challenge to policymakers in resource-poor Japan, as it inflates import costs and pressures households. Despite a verbal warning by Japan's top government spokesman against "rapid" currency moves, the U.S. dollar continued its ascent on Monday to break the 125 yen threshold for the first time since 2015. "We are entering a critical phase in reviving an economy damaged by COVID-19," Kishida told a session of the House of Councilors, adding that he will instruct his ministers to draw up a new package on Tuesday. Calls have grown within the ruling coalition for the government to take further steps to ease the pain increasingly felt by Japanese consumers, with the yen's recent weakness magnifying the impact by raising import costs. Japan's economic recovery remains shaky. It was only last week that the nation became free of anti-virus restrictions for the first time since early January after a quasi-state of emergency ended on March 21 in 18 prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka.
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    2022-03-29
  • Duterte’s birthday wish: Clean, fair, honest polls
    [“We join all our countrymen in wishing our beloved President Rodrigo Roa Duterte a happy 77th birthday on March 28,” acting presidential spokesman and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement. “President Duterte will mark the occasion with a simple and quiet celebration in Davao City, in line with his family’s tradition.”(Photo by Simeon Celi, Jr/ Presidential Photo)] MANILA: President Duterte will have a “simple” and “quiet” birthday celebration with his family in his hometown Davao City today, Malacañang said yesterday. The Chief Executive turns 77. “We join all our countrymen in wishing our beloved President Rodrigo Roa Duterte a happy 77th birthday on March 28,” acting presidential spokesman and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement, PhilStar reported. “President Duterte will mark the occasion with a simple and quiet celebration in Davao City, in line with his family’s tradition.” Duterte’s birthday wish, according to Andanar, is to have “a clean, fair, and honest election in May 2022.” Andanar said the President has time and again underscored the importance of a peaceful transfer of power as part of his enduring legacy. “Our prayer for the Almighty is to continue giving the President good physical and mental health in the years to come so he may carry on serving the interest of and bringing betterment to the lives of Filipinos,” he added.Malacañang also expressed its “sincerest gratitude” to the Chief Executive “whose strong and decisive leadership and genuine compassion for every Filipino have inspired officials in government.”
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    2022-03-29
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