TOKYO — Egg costs are hovering in Japan as the present avian flu season sees a document 16 million birds marked for culling, native media reported on Saturday.
The present fowl flu outbreak has unfold at an unprecedented tempo because the season started in October final yr, with at the least 80 circumstances at poultry companies in 26 of the nation’s 47 prefectures, Kyodo News reported.
As of March 2, the wholesale value of medium-size eggs was 335 yen (2.5 U.S. {dollars}) per kilogram in Tokyo, the very best ever since 1993 when information first grew to become out there, the report mentioned citing information from native egg vendor JA. Z-Tamago. (Japan-Egg Prices)
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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to extend childcare go away advantages in a bid to reverse the nation’s plummeting birthrate.
Kishida on Friday informed a press convention that the following six to seven years can be Japan’s final likelihood to reverse its declining delivery development, noting that his administration will perform unprecedented measures as a prime precedence to show the state of affairs round. (Japan-Birthrate-Childcare Leave)
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PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan — Two youngsters had been killed and two others injured as a mortar mine left over from previous wars went off in Afghanistan’s jap Logar province, the state-run Bakhtar news company reported on Saturday.
A bunch of youngsters discovered a toy-like system within the Altamor space of Pul-e-Alam metropolis, the capital of Logar province, on Friday night and started enjoying with it when the system out of the blue exploded, killing the 2 youngsters on the spot and injuring two extra, the news company reported.
An identical blast injured 4 youngsters in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province final week. (Afghanistan-Blast-Deaths)
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NEW DELHI — India’s international trade reserves declined by 2.39 billion U.S. {dollars} to 560 billion {dollars} as of the week ended March 10, confirmed newest information from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The information launched on Friday reveals India’s international foreign money property additionally decreased by 2.2 billion {dollars} to 494.86 billion {dollars}.
The nation’s gold reserves and SDR holdings additionally lowered on March 10, with each reserves falling by 110 million {dollars} and 53 million {dollars}, respectively. (India-Forex Reserve)
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PHNOM PENH — Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn can pay an official go to to Vietnam on March 20-22 to broaden across-the-board mutually helpful cooperation, mentioned a international ministry assertion on Saturday.
He will meet his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son on methods to additional deepen the present relationship and cooperation in fields starting from politics, safety, economic system, commerce and funding to agriculture, tourism, connectivity, well being, tradition and training, the assertion mentioned. (Cambodia-Vietnam-FM Visit)
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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia — A Chinese-invested tire manufacturing unit in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone launched its operation on Saturday after multiple yr of development.
The 300-million-U.S.-dollar General Tire Technology (Cambodia) manufacturing unit, positioned in Cambodia’s coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, is a subsidiary of Chinese tire maker Jiangsu General Science Technology. It is able to manufacturing 5 million semi-steel radial tires and 900,000 all-steel radial tires per yr, mentioned Gu Cui, chairman of Jiangsu General Science Technology. (Cambodia-China-Tire Factory)