...Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum presented awards to 10 winners of the 2022 Zayed Sustainability Prize on Jan. 17. The Zayed Sustainability Prize was established in 2008 to honor the legacy of the UAE’s founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The prize is the UAE’s pioneering global award recognizing small- to medium-size enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions for their innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability and humanit...

... a press statement Sunday. Some 66 percent of the Mongolian population have received two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 28.7 percent have had the third shot. The press statement said Mongolia’s mortality rate from COVID-19 was lower compared to developed countries due to its immediate vaccination campaign and that it has withstood recurring waves of COVID-19 with minimal damage without imp...

Chinese bandmate Aurora hoped to spread a healing energy to people with their new song, while Japanese bandmate Haru added, “I hope that ‘Rica Rica’ is heard by many people. It’s an easy song to follow, even to a foreigner like myself. I hope many people enjoy the song.” B side “Dear Leaf” is a gift for fans who have waited such a long while for Nature, the band said. “It’s our fan song for Lea...

...in called on health officials to “make a swift switch toward the omicron strategy” which entails limiting access to health care resources to high-priority populations. But the Health Ministry says it’s best to test waters before making that jump. The omicron strategy marks a departure from the rigorous 3T -- test, trace and treat -- regimen. PCR testing is offered to older adults in their 60s and up and those who have been in close contact with confirmed patients while the rest take at-home rapid antigen tests. In the case of any exposure, people will contact trace themselves through a s...

South Korea’s manufacturing industry saw a huge drop in the number of employed in recent years mainly due to the companies’ contracted local investment and restructuring among shipbuilding and auto m...oyed in the manufacturing sector inch up by some 3 percent or at least 250,000 people. South Korea’s market share in the global manufacturing market has also shrunk. It dropped by 0.2 percentage poi...

The final members who will debut through an audition program in Japan have been decided, according to FNC Japan on Monday. The Japanese arm of FNC Entertainment co-produced “Who Is Princess?” a survival format audition show, with Japanese broadcaster NTV. The first episode aired in October last year and 15 trainees from FNC Japan took a series of challenges and missions to make the team. The ...

Worries over the sooner-than-expected rate hike by the US led South Korea’s benchmark Kospi to dip below 2,800 points on Monday, a first since Dec. 23, 2020, when it closed at 2,759 points. The Kospi...ue governance of listed firms. “Foreigners, including institutions, are the chief buyers, and that’s been a fact of life where retail investors track them to do their own bidding,” Hwang said. Oh of...

... followed by movies that recorded a 43 percent jump. Since the research began in 2005, South Korea’s cultural content exports has seen a consistent upward movement, data showed. In particular, betwee...with a 6.8 percent growth to $12.7 billion. Meanwhile, the growth in the cultural content industry’s total revenue also highlighted that exports outperformed domestic growth. The total revenue of th...

South Korea's main stock index plunged to a 13-month low Monday, as investors dumped local stocks ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting this week. The Korean won fell against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi dived 42.29 points, or 1.49 percent, to close at 2,792 points. The Kospi closed below the 2,800-point mark for the first time since Dec. 23, 2...

People who have been hospitalized due to adverse events and allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines are exempt from the country’s vaccine pass mandate, starting on Monday. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, the government will grant the exemption if people have received hospital treatments within six weeks after they received their first dose of COVID-19...

...e found to have led the instability in overall consumer prices last year, despite the Bank of Korea’s interest rate hikes twice in August and November. According to Statistics Korea, consumer prices ...alcoholic drinks at 0.4 percent. Social distancing from COVID-19 is estimate to have caused people’s less spending on the items above as they reduced going out and leisure activities. Though the gov...

... 420 member companies. Lee, who joined Hanwha Group in 1990, has served key positions at the group’s solar solutions unit Hanwha Q Cells, formerly Hanwha SolarOne, since 2011 and was promoted to the ...solar panel market in the US. The KNREA was established in 2001 for the development of the country’s renewable energy sector and to protect its interests. More recently, the organization supports glo...

When the battery of the car was below 50 percent, the TMAP infotainment system notified both verbally and visually about the car’s battery charging levels and several locations of charging stations nearby. The Polestar 2 features Level 2 autonomous driving. But compared to Tesla’s autopilot function, the Polestar system felt less effective in detecting lanes when curbing. When it came to the in...

Following Lee’s Sunday post, Shin Na-ri, deputy spokesperson for the People’s Party election committee, made an official announcement that said “Lee, filled with his own inferiority complex, should immediately stop his immoral and absurd statements.” “Everyone knows who wanted unification more in the Seoul mayor election last year,” Shin said, referring to the then-candidate, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-h...

South Korea’s imports of beer recorded an all-time low last year, amid a nationwide boycott of Japanese beer and other products, data showed Monday. According to the Korea Customs Service, imports o...tal beer imports in Korea in 2018, plunged by 91 percent to $6.8 million. On the other hand, Korea’s export of beer to Japan surged on-year more than twofold to $6.6 million. But Korea’s overall bee...