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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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  • Japan to help African countries escape China's "debt trap"
    [Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi addresses an online meeting with African counterparts of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development on March 26, 2022, at his ministry in Tokyo. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi indicated Saturday that Tokyo will help African countries escape China's "debt trap," Kyodo reported. During online talks with ministers from African nations, Hayashi expressed readiness to support African countries that wish to get out of the debt trap, saying, "We will facilitate the environment in which (developing nations) do not have to depend on such financing," without mentioning China. "We should not tolerate destabilization of developing countries," he also said. The two-day talks until Sunday are aimed to lay the groundwork for the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, a Japan-led initiative to assist African development, slated for August. The annual white paper on development cooperation issued by Japan's Foreign Ministry earlier this month says the international community has been condemning "debt trap" financing, which saddles recipient countries with loans they cannot repay, in a veiled reference to China's huge infrastructure projects in developing nations.
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    2022-03-28
  • New Zimbabwe party faces first election
    [Nelson Chamisa got about 44% of the vote in the 2018 presidential election. (Photo by= AFP)] Zimbabwe's new opposition party, the Citizens' Coalition for Change, faces its first test at the polls with a series of votes across the country. By-elections are being held in 28 parliamentary constituencies (about a 10th of the total), as well as contests for local council seats, BBC reported. The party, led by Nelson Chamisa, has complained that some of its rallies have been violently disrupted by supporters of the ruling party, Zanu-PF. It has also pointed to irregularities in voters' rolls. The votes are being seen as a rehearsal for a general election in Zimbabwe next year. The Citizens' Coalition for Change was created following splits within the long-standing opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change.
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    2022-03-27
  • "Open the schools': Afghan girls protest in Kabul
    [Afghan women protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul. Some Afghan women initially pushed back against the Taliban's curbs, holding small protests where they demanded the right to education and work. (Photo by= AFP/Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN)] KABUL: About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday (Mar 26) against the Taliban's decision to shut their secondary schools just hours after reopening them this week. Thousands of jubilant girls across Afghanistan had flocked to learning institutions on Wednesday - the date the education ministry had set for classes to resume, AFP reported. But just hours into the first day, the ministry announced a shock policy reversal that left youngsters saying they felt betrayed and foreign governments expressing outrage. "Open the schools! Justice, justice!" chanted protesters Saturday, some carrying school books as they gathered at a city square in Kabul. They held banners that said: "Education is our fundamental right, not a political plan" as they marched for a short distance and later dispersed as Taliban fighters arrived at the scene. The protest was the first held by women in weeks after the Taliban rounded up the ringleaders of initial demonstrations held after they returned to power in August. The Islamists haven’t given a clear reason for their decision, which came after a meeting late Tuesday of senior officials in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto power center and spiritual heartland. Since returning to power on Aug 15, the Taliban have rolled back two decades of gains made by the country's women.
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    2022-03-27
  • Muddy conditions hamper search for wreckage from China Eastern plane crash
    [In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers conduct search and rescue work at the core site of Monday's plane crash in Tengxian County, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Friday, March 25, 2022. (Photo by=Lu Boan/Xinhua via AP)] BEIJING: Construction excavators dug into a crash site Saturday (Mar 26) in the search for wreckage, remains and the second black box from a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 that nosedived into a mountainside in southern China this week with 132 people on board. They have found an emergency location transmitter from the plane that had been close to where the second black box - the flight data recorder - had been installed, Zhu Tao, director of the Aviation Safety Office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, told reporters on Saturday. The team is also seeking the data module from the flight data recorder itself. But muddy conditions in the rainy region is hampering the search. Pumps were used to drain water and one excavator stopped working after getting partially stuck, state broadcaster CCTV said. Workers wearing knee-high rubber boots used shovels and other hand tools to sift through the earthen slopes in a 20m-deep pit left by the plane. Debris and other items were collected in dozens of rectangular, mud-stained plastic containers. No survivors have been found, and the cause of the crash remained a mystery. An air traffic controller tried to contact the pilots several times after seeing the plane’s altitude drop sharply but got no reply, officials have said.
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    2022-03-27
  • China to 'dance' between Russia, Western economic ties, says senior US official
    [Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army carry a state flag before the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Jun 24, 2020. (Photo by=Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS)] WASHINGTON: China is likely to offer some support to Russia's economy amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, but will engage in a "dance" to maintain economic ties with Europe and the United States, a senior White House official said on Friday (Mar 25), Reuters reported. The United States has warned of significant consequences if Beijing offers material support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, or provides an economic lifeline to Moscow in the face of large-scale Western sanctions. Mira Rapp-Hooper, director for the Indo-Pacific at the White House National Security Council, told an online panel discussion that driving a wedge between Russia and China would be easier said than done, but that Beijing would remain uncomfortable with Russian President Vladimir Putin's war. "We're unlikely, I think, to see a fully and publicly unified Moscow and Beijing in which China is totally comfortable being saddled with the burden of Vladimir Putin's brutal and ill-begotten war," Rapp-Hooper said. In February, China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership, with a promise to collaborate more against the West. But Western governments are shutting off Russia's economy from the global financial system, pushing international companies to halt sales, cut ties and dump tens of billions of dollars’ worth of investments.
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    2022-03-27
  • Shanghai won't lock down despite COVID-19 spike: Official
    [Shanghai is currently at the epicenter of China's Omicron-fueled virus surge (Photo by=AFP/Hector RETAMAL)] SHANGHAI: Shanghai on Saturday (Mar 26) recorded a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, but a member of the city's pandemic task force said officials were determined to avoid a full lockdown over the damage it would do to the economy, AFP reported. Millions of Chinese in affected areas have been subjected to city-wide lockdowns by an Omicron-led outbreak that has sent daily case counts creeping ever-higher, though they remain insignificant compared to other countries. Shanghai, however, has aimed to ease disruption with a more targeted approach marked by rolling 48-hour lockdowns of individual neighborhoods and large-scale testing while largely keeping the metropolis of 25 million people running. At a daily Shanghai press conference Saturday, officials alluded to the importance of avoiding a full lockdown of the huge port city. "If Shanghai, this city of ours, came to a complete halt, there would be many international cargo ships floating in the East China Sea," said Wu Fan, a medical expert with the city's pandemic task force. Shanghai and Jilin have been the areas hardest hit by the outbreak, which took off in early March. Shanghai on Saturday reported another steep rise in new local transmissions to 2,269, around 40 percent of the national total.
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    2022-03-27
  • 10,000 foreign children in Japan may be absent from school
    [Teachers and children engage in a Japanese language class for kids of foreign nationalities in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, in February 2020. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Around 7 percent of all foreign children in Japan of elementary to junior high school age, or 10,046 children, may not be attending school, government data showed Friday. But the number of such absentee school children as of May 2021 was down by almost half, or by 9,425, since the last survey by the education ministry, conducted in 2019, Kyodo reported. Elementary and junior high school education are not compulsory for foreigners, unlike for their Japanese peers. But they can receive public education for free if they wish. The ministry says the improvement since 2019 is possibly attributable to its efforts to encourage school boards to help more foreign children attend school. The survey was carried out in 1,741 municipalities across Japan, covering 133,310 foreign children listed on resident registries. It found that 649 children did not attend school but could not confirm the school attendance status of 9,397 children. The ministry says it will encourage local governments to enhance their awareness about the situation and to be proactive in reaching out to foreign families. To help foreign children, it has decided to introduce a system to recognize special Japanese instruction classes in high schools as a formal unit, starting from April 2023.
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    2022-03-27
  • US charges four Russians over hacking campaign on energy sector
    [The hackers are accused of causing an emergency shutdown at a Saudi oil plant (File photo by= Reuters)] The US has charged four Russians government employees with cyber-attacks on the global energy sector. They are accused of targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in around 135 countries between 2012-2018, BBC reported. Their activities are said to have caused two separate emergency shutdowns at one facility in Saudi Arabia. The conspiracy then allegedly attempted to hack the computers of a company that managed similar critical infrastructure entities in the US. Some of the individuals are linked by the US indictment to the FSB, Russia's security service. The UK has also sanctioned a Russian defense organization said to be linked to the attack. US President Joe Biden this week warned of possible cyber-attacks linked to the Ukraine conflict but these indictments involve activity dating back before it began. US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said: "Russian state-sponsored hackers pose a serious and persistent threat to critical infrastructure both in the United States and around the world. The accused are alleged to have installed backdoors and launched malicious software designed to compromise the safety of energy facilities. Two separate groups are accused. Russia has always denied the accusations of cyber-attacks.
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    2022-03-26
  • Russia considers accepting Bitcoin for oil and gas
    [Sanctions imposed by the UK, the US and the European Union, following the invasion of Ukraine, have put a strain on Russia's rouble and raised its cost of living. However, Russia is still the world's biggest exporter of natural gas and the second-largest supplier of oil. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Russia is considering accepting Bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports, according to a high-ranking lawmaker. Pavel Zavalny says "friendly" countries could be allowed to pay in the crypto-currency or in their local currencies, BBC reported. Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he wanted "unfriendly" countries to buy its gas with roubles. The move is understood to be aimed at boosting the Russian currency, which has lost over 20% in value this year. Mr. Zavalny, who heads Russia's State Duma committee on energy, said on Thursday that the country has been exploring alternative ways to receive payment for energy exports. He said China and Turkey were among "friendly" countries which were "not involved in the sanctions pressure". Mr. Zavalny added: "You can also trade bitcoins." Analysts said Russia may benefit from accepting the popular cryptocurrency, despite the risks."Russia is very quickly feeling the impact of unprecedented sanctions," said David Broadstock, a senior research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute in Singapore. "There is a need to shore up the economy and, in many ways, Bitcoin is seen as a high growth asset." However, he noted that the value of Bitcoin has swung by as much as 30% this year. In comparison, the dollar has traded within 5% against the euro.
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    2022-03-26
  • Sri Lanka papers run out of newsprint as crisis bites
    [Soldiers guard a service station where people wait to get fuel in Colombo as Sri Lanka grapples with its worst economic meltdown in over seven decades. (Photo by=AFP/Ishara S Kodikara)] COLOMBO: Two major Sri Lanka newspapers are suspending their print editions because of a lack of paper, their owner said Friday (Mar 25), the latest casualties in the island's economic crisis. The South Asian nation of 22 million people is facing its worst economic meltdown since independence from Britain in 1948 after its foreign reserves hit rock bottom, AFP reported. Privately owned Upali Newspapers said their English-language daily, The Island, and its sister Sinhalese version, Divaina, will only be available online "in view of the prevailing newsprint shortage". Other main national dailies have also reduced pages after costs soared by over a third in the past five months and because of difficulties securing supplies from abroad. School tests for nearly 3 million out of Sri Lanka's 4.5 million pupils were postponed indefinitely last week after the authorities failed to source enough paper and ink. The dollar shortage has sparked energy shortages affecting all sectors and led to skyrocketing prices with inflation at a record 17.5 percent in February, the fifth consecutive monthly high. Sri Lanka needs nearly US$7 billion to service its external debt this year while the country's foreign reserves have hit US$2.3 billion, down from US$7.5 billion when the current government came to power in November 2019.
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    2022-03-26
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