SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was defective or improperly designed.
TASHKENT, Nov 08 (APP): Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Wednesday reiterated the resolve to finalize the Strategic Partnership Agreement at the earliest to promote regional economic integration.
The bilateral ties were discussed in a bilateral meeting between Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, on the sidelines of the 16th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) being held here.
Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to play an active role for the regional connectivity.
BAKU, November 8. /TASS/: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that his country does not need a new war with Armenia.
"We do not need a new war. We have achieved what we were striving for, we have restored international law, we have restored historical justice, we have restored our national dignity, we have shown the enemy his place," he said at a military parade in the town of Khankendi in Nagorno-Karabakh on the occasion of the third anniversary of Azerbaijan's victory in the Second Karabakh War.
HANOI, Nov 8 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam sent more than 132,000 labourers abroad, in the first 10 months of this year, surpassing the target set for the year by 20 percent, it was reported today.
According to the Department of Overseas Labour, under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), among those workers, 44,669 were female, accounting for nearly 30 percent.
Japan remained the top destination for Vietnamese guest workers.
About 21,100 Vietnamese labourers were sent abroad in Oct alone, according to statistics, from the enterprises.
JAKARTA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's anti-graft court on Wednesday sentenced former Minister of Communications and Information Technology Johnny Gerard Plate to 15 years in prison over a corruption case for an internet infrastructure development project in remote areas.
The court also required Plate to pay back 15.5 billion rupiahs (about 990,000 U.S. dollars) in embezzlement funds and a fine of 1 billion rupiahs (about 64,000 dollars) for the corruption case which costs the state more than 8 trillion rupiahs (about 510 million dollars).
TOKYO (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies called Wednesday for “urgent action” to help civilians trapped in an increasingly dire situation in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting to allow aid in and people out, in announcing a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
TOKYO, Nov. 7. /TASS/: Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries kicked off two days of meetings in Tokyo on Tuesday, with the focus expected to be on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the situation in Ukraine.
"Amid an increasingly complex international environment, close dialogue among G7 members is more important than ever," Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said at the opening of the meeting.
The meeting of G7 foreign ministers opened with a working dinner, while the main events of the agenda are set to take place on November 8.
TOKYO, Nov 7 (NNN-NHK) – Excessive levels of radioactive cesium were detected in locally grown mushroom, in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, government report showed today.
The sample of Cortinarius caperatus, a type of edible mushroom, in the prefecture’s Narusawa village, reported a cesium level of 150 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg), said the report, published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, on its official website.
The allowed cesium level on general food products stands at 100 Bq/kg in the country.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 (NNN-Bernama) — The Malaysian Government does not recognise any unilateral decision made by any country, including the United States, to impose sanctions against individuals, agencies or countries supporting Hamas, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.
Instead, he said Malaysia only recognises decisions made by the United Nations (UN) that are multilateral in nature.
“We do not agree with the decision made by the United States and it will not influence our policies and decisions,” he said during Minister’s Question Time at the Parliament sitting.
HANOI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has cashed in on free trade agreements (FTAs) which helps bring its products to 60 countries and territories worldwide, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday, citing Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien.
Responding to questions on measures to enhance export at the national assembly's ongoing meeting in capital city Hanoi on Tuesday, he said Vietnam had capitalized on the FTAs it has signed to bolster exports amid weakening demand, high input costs and inflation pressure across the globe.
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