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Exports of premium Indian basmati rice last month were half of what they were a year ago, with traders blaming freight rates that have doubled following a series of attacks on commercial ships by Iran-backed Houthi militants.
Tall, urbane and articulate, the former Central Java governor did not start out that way. He soared in the surveys soon after grabbing the sought-after prize of being named the presidential nominee from the country’s ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).
The figure for the year to last March was up 642 from the previous year, marking the second straight annual increase. The sum accounted for 0.71 per cent of all teachers at primary, junior and high schools as well as special needs schools, or 1 in 140 individuals, the education ministry said.
It’s remarkable how quickly a limp, lifeless balloon becomes a bouncy, bobbing object ready to take flight once connected to a cylinder of helium gas. We might say the same of national economies and stock market stimulus.
Reuters spoke to 20 people – including 15 in the eyelash industry, as well as trade lawyers and experts on North Korea’s economy – who described a system in which China-based firms import semi-finished products from North Korea, which are then completed and packaged as Chinese.
“The Registrar has assessed that Chan’s activities are directed towards a political end in Singapore, and that it is in the public interest for countermeasures under FICA (Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act) to be applied to Chan,” it said in a statement on Friday.
BANGKOK -- The U.S. on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on entities and individuals it said are providing support to the military regime in Myanmar, which seized power three years ago.
KOBE, Japan -- The Japanese city of Kobe, near Osaka, plans to open a liaison office in Singapore in fiscal 2025 to support homegrown startups in Southeast Asia as well as attract local companies.