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SEOUL, KOREA — At least 151 people died and more than 82 were injured in a crowd crush in Seoul during a Halloween celebration late Saturday (29 Oct), according to the latest figures from fire authorities at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday.
151 dead, 82 injured in Halloween crowd crush in Korea comes…
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on Sunday after a Halloween crush killed some 151 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul.
Yoon expressed condolences to the victims, mostly teenagers and people in their 20s, and his wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured.
South Korea:…
Snarled supply chains that helped fuel red-hot inflation are slowly disentangling, offering hope for relief for cash-strapped consumers.
But the U.S. faces geopolitical tensions, a shortage of truck drivers and a potential railroad strike that all endanger recent progress.
The New York Federal Reserve’s global supply chain pressure index soared to an all-time high in December…
Few days ago, there were reports that the Competition Commission of India has places about $113 million fine on Google. This was due to antitrust practices on the side of company. This is not the only fine the Indian Government has placed on the tech giants this year.
Google Is Said To…
In a significant push for India’s indigenous defence manufacturing industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Tata Airbus facility to manufacture C295 military transport planes in Gujarat on Sunday, ushering India to enter the exclusive group of few countries with the capacity to manufacture such aircraft.
Tata-Airbus…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress could be one of the most consequential of the decade. He told the audience – and the world – that his economic growth-crushing zero-Covid policy is here to stay, and that Beijing is more determined than ever to reunify with Taiwan, peacefully…
Who predicted the 2008 global financial crash? COVID? The war in Ukraine?
Of course, some did. Hollywood gave us a taste of a global respiratory pandemic in the 2011 film, Contagion.
Some economists saw the unravelling of the financial markets and the ensuing recession long before it happened.
Should we have predicted Black Swan…
A plus-size model has called out fashion retailer Shein, claiming the fashion brand photoshopped her body to make her look “thin”.
Sydney, Australia-based model Sarah Jane Kelly has been in the fashion industry for over five years and has posed for some of the world’s most popular clothing brands.
Plus-sized model Sarah Jane…
The threat posed by drones, terror funding through cryptocurrency and the use of internet by terrorist outfits were among the key concerns raised Saturday at the UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting in New Delhi.
Government representatives and experts from multiple countries expressed their views on the use of emerging technologies by terrorists.
Good day. Here are the stories for The Manila Times for Sunday, October 30, 2022.
‘Paeng’ leaves ’16 of 17 regions at high risk’
PRESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is considering placing the Philippines under a one-year state of calamity due to the effects of Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng” (international name: “Nalgae”) which left “16…
