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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news abstract at 1600 GMT, Jan. 12

TOKYO — A Japanese cybersecurity agency has recognized distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults concentrating on 46 corporations and organizations in Japan, native media reported Sunday.

Trend Micro recognized and analyzed networks referred to as botnets that had been extremely doubtless used within the DDoS assaults, during which large quantities of information are despatched to web sites or servers to make them crash, public broadcaster NHK reported. (Japan-Cyberattack)

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PHNOM PENH — Wanli Tire Co. Ltd., a subsidy of China’s Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings Group (GIIHG), on Sunday started to assemble a automobile tire manufacturing facility in southeast Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province, stated a news launch from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC).

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and CDC first vice-president Sun Chanthol attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the plant on a 32-hectare parcel within the Sin Bavet Special Economic Zone in Bavet city on the border with Vietnam, the news launch stated, including that the plant will create 1,000 jobs when it’s put into operation. (Cambodia-China-Car Tire Plant)

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SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol won’t attend the primary listening to of his impeachment trial, scheduled for Tuesday, for security issues, Yoon’s protection counsel stated Sunday.

Yun Gap-geun, Yoon’s lawyer, was quoted by a number of media retailers as saying that issues remained about security and mishaps because the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and National Office of Investigation (NOI) continued their try to execute a warrant to arrest the impeached president. (South Korea-Impeachment-Trial)

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday referred to as for worldwide cooperation in creating scalable and sustainable alternatives for making certain training to girls, saying girls participation within the workforce would create immense prospects for social and financial prosperity.

“Educated women have the potential to not just lift themselves, their families and the nation out of the poverty, but also to enrich the global economy, new markets and find innovative solutions to their shared challenges,” Sharif stated whereas addressing a convention titled “Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities.” (Pakistan-Women Empowerment-Education)

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SEOUL — South Korea’s nuclear security company has launched an investigation into the irregular discharge of liquid radioactive waste from a nuclear reactor to the southeast of the nation, Yonhap news company stated Sunday.

The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) acquired a report from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), the operator of nuclear energy vegetation, at about 10:23 a.m. native time (0123 GMT) Sunday that the liquid waste of a radioactive storage tank within the Wolseong No. 2 nuclear energy plant in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province was discharged into the ocean with out going by a pattern evaluation.(SKorea-Radioactive Waste)

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