SEOUL — A forest hearth in South Korea’s northeast coastal metropolis engulfed large forest and homes, leaving one individual useless and three others injured, Yonhap news company mentioned Tuesday.
The blaze broke out on a hill in Gangneung, about 170 km east of the capital Seoul, at round 8:30 a.m. native time (2330 GMT on Monday). (S. Korea-Forest Fire)
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has as soon as once more been named the world’s busiest cargo airport in 2022, dealing with a complete of 4.2 million tons of cargo in the course of the yr, based on the newest knowledge launched by Airports Council International (ACI).
HKIA retained the highest place in 2022 regardless of ongoing geopolitical tensions and disruptions to international commerce and provide chains that brought on a lower in general air cargo quantity globally, the Airport Authority Hong Kong mentioned Tuesday. (Hong Kong-International Airport)
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TOKYO — Japan noticed its variety of enterprise failures the primary enhance in three years since fiscal 2019, based on the newest survey by a credit score analysis firm.
The determine stood at 6,799 circumstances in the course of the interval from April 2022 to March 2023, up 14.9 p.c yr on yr, Japan’s Teikoku Databank Ltd. mentioned in an internet report launched on Monday. (Japan-Bankruptcies-Survey)
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TOKYO — China and Japan held the fifteenth spherical of high-level consultations on maritime affairs in Tokyo on Monday, exchanging views on maritime affairs in an all-round and in-depth method.
As this yr marks the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, the 2 sides agreed that underneath the steerage of the vital consensuses reached by the leaders of the 2 nations, efforts needs to be made to evaluation and abide by the spirit of the treaty, correctly deal with maritime disputes and variations via dialogue in accordance with the four-point principled settlement between China and Japan, and deepen sensible maritime cooperation. (China-Japan-Maritime Talks)