SOUTH Korea’s National Assembly Tuesday passed a bill to appoint a permanent special counsel to investigate insurrection charges against President Yoon Suk-yeol, as well as a resolution calling for Yoon’s immediate arrest over his botched martial law declaration.

STATE Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received a delegation led by Mr Batu Khasikov, Head of the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation, at the Credentials Hall of the State Administration Council Chairman’s Office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.

ECONOMISTS have warned that US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs could trigger retaliatory measures, leading to significant losses for California’s agriculture industry, The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. A recent analysis, published by the University of California’s Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, examined potential scenarios involving tariffs and retaliation.

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THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added Mongolia’s Mongol nomad migration and its associated practices to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, according to a statement from the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth on Friday.

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Octopus from Myeik is currently the best seller as the price has dropped, according to the information asked in the seafood market.
Octopus prices have been good for more than a month, and since the beginning of December, the price has been decreasing, so it has become the best seller.
“The biggest seller in the seafood industry is octopus. There are two main reasons for high sales — one is that the price decreased a lot from the peak of K50,000 per viss in early December after the Myanmar’s seasonal festivals.

DEPUTY Foreign Minister of the DPRK, Kim Jong Gyu, and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Andrey Rudenko, signed the protocol on the exchange of ratification instruments.
The treaty takes effect from 4 December 2024, when the ratification instruments were exchanged according to Article 22 of the treaty, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

AT the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Asunción, Paraguay, on 2-7 December 2024, Myanmar’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture proposed the nomination file of “Myanmar’s Traditional Ata Thingyan Festival” to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

LONDON will witness elite sumo wrestlers in action as well as the ancient sport's pageantry, the Japan Sumo Association said Tuesday in announcing its first tour to the city in 34 years.
Speaking to a press conference at London's Royal Albert Hall, the venue for the association's 1991 visit, JSA president Hakkaku said next year's event will take place from 15 to 19 October, and will include matches between top-level wrestlers as well the sport's ring-entering ceremony.