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The Bank of Japan revealed through its latest survey that Japanese consumers expect increasing prices and show record annual inflation forecasts from the survey. People answered the Bank of Japan survey from February 6 to March 4 and told researchers that prices would go up 12.2% during the following year. This increase marks a jump from the prior 11.5% seen …

Tesla has quietly suspended new orders for its high priced Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, indicating increasing pressure from intensifying U.S.-China trade tensions. The suspension reported earlier by Reuters and MKTNews also includes Tesla’s WeChat mini program where the two imported models are no longer listed. Both cars are produced in the U.S. and exported …

Samsung SDI has slashed its Share Price owing to Jitters across the Global Market For fresh equity, South Korea’s Samsung SDI has cut new share prices by 14% in a bid to raise 2 trillion won, approximately 1.4 billion dollars. Prices have dropped from 169,200 won to 146,200 won for the stock issue. The definitive price is yet to be …

China asks India to fight the US’s trade practices because those measures hurt developing nations worldwide. According to Yu Jing of the Chinese Embassy in India, the nations need to unite in opposition to harmful development restrictions enforced on Global South countries. China's economy is underpinned by a system that ensures steady growth, and produces positive spillovers. Chinese manufacturing is …

South Korea is to conduct a snap presidential election on June 3 after President Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached and removed from office, the country’s acting president declared on Tuesday. The move, agreed in a cabinet meeting, comes four days after the Constitutional Court confirmed a parliamentary motion to impeach Yoon for his controversial declaration of martial law last December. Acting …

After six years of silence, Pyongyang’s streets became alive again with the International Marathon of North Korea, easier said than done, as it took in about 200 foreign runners in this rare sporting event on Sunday. The Pyongyang Marathon, which started in 1981, is a customary April race commemorating the birth of the founding leader Kim Il Sung. But it …

Korean Thriller Series Karma from Netflix has a pretty gloomy, dark secret story, wherein each secret bears deadly consequences, adapted from Choi Hee-sun’s webcomic. The story starts with Park Jae-yeong, a drowning debt person who hires his old college friend Gil-ryong to kill his father for taking up insurance money. But Gil-ryong brings in a dangerous ex-convict, Kim Beom-jun Kim …

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been removed from office due to issues concerning martial law. A significant shift is all but guaranteed to take place in South Korea’s politics after the country’s Constitutional Court unanimously ruled on Friday for the removal of President Yoon Suk Yeol from the office of the president. This dramatic ruling came more than …

On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 10:12 a.m. Beijing time, China made a successful orbit placing satellite launch of Tianping-3A 02 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province. The launching rocket was a Long March-6, marking the 568th flight mission of the Long March program. Established in 1968, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is specifically used for launching …

 SM Entertainment has formally ceased for Wendy and Yeri of Red Velvet. But this is not the end of their journey with Red Velvet! Both stars will remain in the group and continue participating in all group activities. SM Entertainment announced the news on April 4 via Red Velvet’s official social media pages, where it also expressed its gratitude to …