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Asia News on Feb. 12, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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(China 🇨🇳) Canada's military demands that the government bans Huawei's role in 5G networks on national security grounds.
(Source: SCMP)
*South Korea🇰🇷
IKEA Korea is set to open its fourth store in South Korea in Busan.
South Korea is expected to raise $26.5 million of funds to foster startups in the agriculture and fisheries sector in an effort to strengthen the vitality of rural areas.
(Source: The Korea Herald)
*Japan🇯🇵
IMF warned the impact of the coronavirus could cripple Japan's economy on the ground of the country's flagging tourism, retail and exports.
(Source: The Asahi Shimbun)
*Vietnam🇻🇳
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(Japan 🇯🇵) Nissan Motor Co. is set to temporarily stop the operation of its auto plant in southwestern Japan due to disruptions in auto parts supply from China on account of the coronavirus outbreak.
(Source: Kyodo News)
*Indonesia 🇮🇩
It is estimated that more than 40,000 hotel bookings were canceled in Bali since the coronavirus outbreak.
(Source: The Jakarta Post)
*Vietnam 🇻🇳
The Vietnamese government is set to exempt tax on imported medical masks, hand sanitizer, mask materials, disinfectants and protective clothing in an attempt to curb the impact of the coronavirus.
(Source: Viet Nam News)
*South Korea 🇰🇷
South Korean household electronics company Woongjin Coway changed its brand name to Coway after Netmarble, a giant South Korean mobile game company, acquired the company.
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(South Korea🇰🇷) The South Korean government is strengthening its crackdown on the smuggling of face masks through airports. The government allows each passenger to carry 300 facial masks at maximum.
(Source: The Korea Herald)
*China🇨🇳
The number of mobile apps available in China slipped by 18.8% to 3.67 million year-by-year in 2019.
China unveiled a mobile app “close contact detector,” which enables users to check whether they were in close contact with someone infected, in an attempt to quell coronavirus fears and prevent infection.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
*Japan🇯🇵
Sales of electric bicycles in Japan more than doubled to 667,244 units in 2018 as the country sees the rapidly aging population and the attempt to curb pollution.
The Hilton group is set to open a luxury hotel in Kyoto in 2021, with an expectation that tourists to Japan will surge even after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
(Source: Kyodo News, News on Japan)
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