KUALA LUMPUR — Ten individuals have been killed following the crash of a light-weight plane in Malaysia’s Selangor state on Thursday afternoon, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook mentioned.
Speaking at a press convention following the incident, Loke mentioned there have been no survivors among the many plane’s six passengers and two crew, with one other two being killed on the bottom the place the plane crashed. (Malaysia-Air Crash)
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NEW DELHI — Floods have inundated 114 villages within the northern Indian state of Punjab and two kids drowned in flood water, the state media reported Thursday.
India’s state-run broadcaster All India Radio on Thursday mentioned two kids drowned in flood water in Dhirowal village of Shri Hargobindpur space of Gurdaspur district.
The flood-affected districts within the state are Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Rupnagar and Kapurthala. (India-Floods-Impact)
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SINGAPORE — The non-oil home exports (NODX) in Singapore declined by 20.2 % year-on-year, marking a contraction for the tenth straight month, authorities company Enterprise Singapore introduced Thursday.
The determine prolonged the 15.6-percent decline within the earlier month, Enterprise Singapore famous, including that NODX in July fell 3.4 % month-on-month, reversing the 5.2-percent rise in June. (Singapore-Economy-Export)
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TOKYO — Japan booked a commerce deficit in July as exports dropped for the primary time in over two years, the federal government mentioned in a report on Thursday.
According to the Finance Ministry, the nation’s commerce deficit stood at 78.7 billion yen (538 million U.S. {dollars}) within the recording interval, with exports falling for the primary time in 29 months by 0.3 % to eight.73 trillion yen.
Meanwhile, imports declined for the fourth consecutive month to eight.8 trillion yen, down 13.5 % 12 months on 12 months, the ministry’s preliminary information confirmed. (Japan-Economy-Trade Deficit)
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TOKYO — Local residents in Japan on Thursday submitted a joint petition urging the Japanese authorities to retract its plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean.
The petition, signed by 28,627 individuals, was handed to representatives of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry collectively by 17 organizations, together with the non-governmental group Friends of the Earth Japan and Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center. (Japan-Nuke Wastewater Discharge-Petition)
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HONG KONG — The Education Bureau of China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) authorities on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan to boost schooling collaboration between the 2 locations.
The MOU gives for a framework to facilitate strategic schooling collaboration between Hong Kong and Kazakhstan and covers mutually helpful initiatives, together with the change of experience and expertise, change of academic literature, educating aids, and demonstration supplies, in addition to exchanges of students, lecturers, specialists, college students and different schooling personnel, mentioned a spokesperson for the HKSAR authorities. (Hong Kong-Education-Kazakhstan)
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Arif Alvi appointed on Thursday a 19-member federal cupboard of the interim authorities led by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the media wing of the President House advised Xinhua.
The federal cupboard consists of 16 federal ministers and three advisers to the caretaker prime minister, in accordance with the President House.