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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, urged Russia on Sunday to immediately end the war in Ukraine and withdraw its forces from the country, condemning the aggression as "a grave breach of the United Nations Charter." In a joint statement issued after their meeting in Phnom Penh, the leaders also called for the immediate cessation of violence in coup-hit Myanmar and demanded that the junta release ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees and restore the democratic political system. Kishida and Hun Sen "recognized that this aggression jeopardizes the foundation of international order which does not accept any unilateral change of the internationally recognized borders by force," according to the statement, although it did not single out Ru...

A customer picks up a package of Impossible Burger plant based meat during the Impossible Foods Inc. grocery store product launch at Gelson's Markets in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Impossible Foods is suing Motif FoodWorks for patent infringement, claiming that the start-up's beef alternative that uses heme technology that too closely imitates its own version. Both companies are privately owned, although Impossible is much larger, with a valuation of $9.5 billion. Impossible's beef and pork substitutes use soy leghemoglobin, which is produced from genetically modified yeast, to imitate the taste and aroma of real meat. Along with Beyond Meat, Impossible has helped rejuvenate the market for vegetarian burgers. Several other companies have jumped on the trend...

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HERAT: In the middle of a bazaar in western Afghanistan, Arezo Akrimi took out her smartphone and, after a few taps of the screen, changed some cryptocurrency for a bundle of hard cash. Arezo, 19, is one of a hundred students in Herat who have been receiving around US$200 a month in cryptocurrency since last September thanks to the American non-governmental organisation Code to Inspire. This sum, which she converts at a bureau de change into afghanis, is crucial for her rent and to help feed her family of six. Since the Taliban returned last August, Afghanistan's economy has virtually collapsed, and the country is in the grip of a crisis caused by the seizure of billions of dollars of assets held abroad. But digital currencies and their decentralised architecture, impervious to interna...

HONG KONG : Vissel Kobe reached the group phase of the Asian Champions League on Tuesday when Brazilian striker Lincoln scored five minutes into extra time to earn the Japanese hosts a dramatic 4-3 playoff win over Melbourne Victory. Substitute Lincoln pounced on Yuya Osako's ball across the face of goal to take the J-League side into the next round where they will face Hong Kong's Kitchee, Shanghai Port from China and Thai side Chiangrai United in Group J. Kobe looked to be heading out of the competition when Nick D'Agostino scored his second of the game in the 71st minute. Andres Iniesta had opened the scoring with six minutes on the clock but D'Agostino bundled the ball over the line at a corner in the 12th minute to restore parity. The 24-year-old then finished off a rapid-fire bre...

SINGAPORE: You may have noticed recently that your grocery bills have gone up. Singapore's core inflation rate, which measures the average change in prices for things like food, electricity and gas, rose 2.4 per cent year-on-year in January – the highest increase in more than nine years. For food alone, the inflation rate that month was 2.6 per cent. But inflation figures only tell part of the story – how much exactly have the prices of your everyday groceries gone up? To find out, CNA compared the current prices of some essential goods from several supermarkets with that of a year ago. Avid bakers and egg lovers might have felt the pinch more than most – for fresh produce, eggs saw the biggest price increase. Checks by CNA showed that the price of a pack of 30 Pasar fresh eggs was S$...

SINGAPORE: The mobile phone of Workers' Party chair Sylvia Lim has not been hacked by Singapore state agencies, Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam said in Parliament on Friday (Feb 18). He was responding to Ms Lim's request for confirmation that her phone has not been hacked by Singapore's state agencies, after stating that she received a threat warning from Apple that her iPhone could be under threat of hacking by state-sponsored attackers. Earlier in Parliament, Ms Lim brought up the threat warning after Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan mentioned that reliance on technology is required for national security reasons, and wanted to know if she should have "absolutely no concerns" that Singapore's state agencies were trying to hack into her phone. She added that Appl...

Emperor Naruhito, who turns 62 today, is known for his compassionate and sociable personality, as well as his proficiency in English, as the first emperor to have studied outside Japan. Emperor Naruhito holds a news conference prior to his 61st birthday in February 2021 at the Akasaka Imperial Residence in Tokyo. | KYODO Born in 1960, the eldest son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, the emperor made his first overseas trip to Australia in 1974. After he graduated from the Department of History in the Faculty of Letters of Gakushuin University, he traveled to the United Kingdom in 1983 and spent two years living in a dormitory and studying at Oxford University’s Merton College. He studied the history of transport on the River Thames, and his interest in issues assoc...

WASHINGTON: PayPal Holdings Inc on Thursday (Mar 17) expanded its services to allow Ukrainian citizens and refugees to receive payments from overseas, a move a senior Ukrainian official called a huge help as Russian forces continued to attack the country. PayPal Chief Executive Dan Schulman told Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in a letter that Ukrainians would also be able to transfer funds from their PayPal accounts to eligible credit and debit cards. The company has waived its fees on such transactions through Jun 30. More than three million Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia launched its invasion on Feb 24, an action Russia has described as a "special military operation.". PayPal's move will allow refugees and Ukrainians to receive funds from friends and family memb...

Supporters await the arrival of presidential candidate Yoon Seok-youl of the main opposition People Power Party during during a presidential election campaign on Feb. 15, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-jun | Getty Images News | Getty Images A conservative victory for South Korea's upcoming presidential election could see the country adopt a rigid stance on North Korea and China, potentially igniting fresh tensions in the Asia-Pacific. Yoon Seok-youl of the conservative People Power Party and Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) are the front-runners for the March 9 vote. A string of opinion polls conducted by Gallup Korea, a research company, show Yoon and Lee running neck and neck, indicating a tight race ahead. In one survey of 1,000 adults on Feb. 25, Lee's public...