Typhoon Hinnamnor is expected to hit South Korea, with its disaster agency upgrading its emergency response posture to the highest level initially in five yrs for typhoons.Continue Reading
TOKYO: Japanese drinks giant Suntory last year debuted a strong, lemony brew in Australia that quickly became the top seller in the canned cocktail market there. Now the company is aiming to replicate that success in North America, critical to its aim of becoming the global leader in the fastest-growingContinue Reading
Japan and South Korea are bulking upward offensive and defensive missile capabilities in order to counter any possible spillover from China-Taiwan tensions and North Korea’s provocations, says Gearoid Reidy just for Bloomberg Opinion.Continue Reading
SHANGHAI: The Chinese language city of Chengdu will continue to impose COVID lockdown curbs in most of the city and conduct more city-wide mass testing through Monday to Wed (Sep 4), the city’s government announced on Sunday. The southern metropolis, which positioned its 21 mil people under lockdown on Thursday,Continue Reading
THREE-TIER MANAGEMENT Based on the results of the weekend testing, Shenzhen will classify its areas into three categories, reflecting low, medium, and high risk of infection, Lin said. In areas deemed low risk, the city will remove restrictions that confined much of its population to residential compounds over the weekend,Continue Reading
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown upon Saturday (Sep 3) for mass COVID-19 testing, said it can adopt tiered anti-virus restriction measures beginning on Monday. The city furthermore announced a new round of COVID-19 tests, vowing to “marshal all available sources, mobilise allContinue Reading
KARACHI: Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday (Sep 4), a minister said, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering flood water. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floodsContinue Reading
FAZILPUR, Pakistan: Truck driver and father-of-seven Mureed Hussain was planning for his daughter’s October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry. “I had been collecting her dowry for almost three years,” Hussain told AFP from the courtyard of hisContinue Reading
TOKYO: A Japanese government panel tasked with tackling rising prices and wage issues will meet on Friday and consider additional policy measures that should be taken, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday (Sep 4). Speaking to reporters in northern Japan’s Niigata prefecture, Kishida said the government should consider reviewingContinue Reading
HONG KONG: China’s CanSino Biologics Inc said on Sunday (Sep 4) that its recently developed COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the country’s drug regulator for emergency use as a booster, potentially benefiting its business. The inhaled version of CanSino’s adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine has obtained the green light from theContinue Reading