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North Korea has sent containers to Russia that could hold nearly 5 million artillery shells and Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to seek even more when he soon visits Pyongyang, South Korea’s defence minister said.
The 6.87-hectare (17-acre) cement slab in the middle of a Borneo industrial area once belonged to a logging company. Long ago that business abandoned the site to the elements, leaving just rudimentary structures and a four-storey-tall concrete birdhouse made to lure swiftlets whose nests, built with saliva, fetch high prices in China.
Train travel between Bangkok and Beijing is inching closer as Thailand prepares to expand its rail network.
The reductions, equal to about 9 per cent of employees at the Indonesian unit, will commence as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter. The final number is under discussion and could fluctuate as conditions change, the people said.
The Southeast Asian nation should prepare for a “more pronounced” external threat, the president was also quoted as saying in a statement released by his communications office on Tuesday.
Private bankers at several institutions are also receiving additional training to help them spot tricks used by criminals to mask their backgrounds and sources of funds, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters.
The poll agency did not follow procedures before filing for the dissolution, said Pita Limjaroenrat, whose bid to become prime minister was thwarted by the pro-royalist establishment parties and members of the military-appointed Senate.
“Our operations are conducted within our own territorial waters and EEZ,” National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano said in a statement late Saturday, referring to the nation’s exclusive economic zone. “We will not be deterred by foreign interference or intimidation.”