SEOUL — Three civilian staff had been injured as an explosion accident occurred at a army unit in southeast South Korea, a number of media retailers mentioned Monday.
The explosion broke out at about 9:27 a.m. native time (0027 GMT) on the army unit in Gimhae, round 310 km southeast of the capital Seoul. (South Korea-Explosion)
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HONG KONG — In a world financial system beleaguered by alarming anti-globalization sentiment, rising protectionism and unilateralism, openness and cooperation are of important significance and in dire want of recent vitality.
In the 12 months 2024, China has persistently endeavored to foster broader house for cooperation in Asia-Pacific, guaranteeing that the area stays a driving drive for financial globalization. (China-Asia-Cooperation)
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SEOUL — South Korea’s constitutional courtroom mentioned Monday that it’s going to maintain the primary pretrial listening to over President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on Friday as scheduled.
A courtroom official advised a televised press convention that the primary preliminary listening to can be held on Dec. 27 as deliberate because the courtroom deemed the impeachment discover delivered to Yoon, who repeatedly defied the supply. (South Korea-Impeached-President)
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TOKYO — Japanese automakers Honda Motor and Nissan Motor introduced Monday they’ve agreed to start talks on a merger that may set up a brand new holding firm by round August 2026, as the worldwide auto business’s competitors in electrification and software program integration intensifies.
The two firms signed a memorandum of understanding to start out discussions towards a enterprise integration beneath a brand new holding firm, creating the world’s third-largest automaker group to compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals within the electrical automobile market. (Japan-Honda-Nissan)
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PHNOM PENH — Cambodia has seen a 54.5 % surge within the variety of Chinese vacationers in the course of the first 11 months of 2024, mentioned a Cambodian Ministry of Tourism’s report launched on Monday.
A complete of 769,775 Chinese guests traveled to the Southeast Asian nation in the course of the January-November interval this 12 months, up 54.5 % from 498,250 over the identical interval in 2023, the report mentioned. (Cambodia-China-Visitors)