The coalition, which calls for increased transparency at sea and seafood supply chains free of illegal practices, welcomes feedback until October 31, 2022 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the Global Fisheries Transparency Coalition, a new global community of ocean advocates campaigning for increased transparency at sea, released its draft Global Charter for […]
SEOUL– A former conservative party lawmaker indicted for leaking the contents of a phone conversation between the leaders of South Korea and the United States in 2019 was given a suspended prison sentence by a court Tuesday. The Seoul Central District Court handed down a six-month prison sentence, suspended for one year, to Khang … Read more
The declaration of a La Niña for the third consecutive year in the Pacific by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)has come with a warning from the WMO Pacific Regional Climate Centre Network (RCC-N) for communities in the central equatorial Pacific to prepare for a return to drier than normal conditions and communities in the northwest … Read more
KYIV – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners have over the last few days distributed more than 70,000 food rations in Kharkiv oblast, 30,000 rations in Kherson oblast, and 500 rations in Luhansk oblast, reaching communities who have only just become accessible to humanitarian agencies. Most of the people that WFP … Read more
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to leaders Tuesday to unite and take action to address the problems of a world “teeming with turmoil.” “We are in rough seas; a winter of global discontent is on the horizon,” he said at the opening of the annual weeklong gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other officials at … Read more
The United States has been increasing its military activities in Palau in recent months amid rising tensions with China, according to Palau’s top diplomat who is visiting the United States ahead of the first U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit next week in Washington. Palau Minister of State Gustav Aitaro urged countries to find alternative Pacific shipping … Read more
SEOUL– Nearly 100 artworks by masters of Western art will go on display at a Seoul national gallery later this week as part of a follow-up exposition of donations of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) said Tuesday the exhibit titled “MMCA Lee Kun-hee Collection: … Read more
SEOUL– The number of offline offices run by financial firms in South Korea declined more than 1,000 over the past year as the use of mobile services spiked amid their fast transition to digitalization, data showed Tuesday. Local financial companies, including banks and insurers, had run a total of 15,924 offline offices in South … Read more