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841 noticiasSaudi Arabia says 2 airports hit in renewed fighting with Houthis
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in Najran and Jizan were hit Monday, damaging both facilities and leaving three people lightly injured; the statement did not say who was responsible. A Houthi brigadier gener…
Un tribunal surcoreano suspende las decisiones de exclusión por capitalización bursátil; la bolsa detiene otras dos salidas
El Juzgado Civil n.º 51 del Tribunal del Distrito Sur de Seúl concedió el 2 de octubre medidas cautelares que suspenden las decisiones de exclusión de la Bolsa de Corea (Korea Exchange) contra Joo Yeon Tech, cotizada en el KOSPI, y KM Pharm…
Turkey, Pakistan to send forces to Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes widen
Turkey and Pakistan said they will provide agreed military forces and take steps to deploy them rapidly to Saudi Arabia, after an emergency meeting in Riyadh on Oct. 5, in the first activation of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed on …
Asian Games exemption row: Ahn Cheol-soo urges review, defense ministry regrets remarks
People Power Party lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo said on 7 October that the military service exemption for Asian Games gold medalists should be reviewed for abolition starting with this tournament, noting the rule is a presidential decree that Pre…
Land minister says Gangnam, Yongsan home prices have turned negative
Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Hong Ji-seon told a National Assembly audit on Oct 7 that home prices in Seoul's Gangnam three districts and Yongsan have turned negative, and said price growth should ease with the market stabili…
Goldman Sachs warns Samsung volatility may spike on Oct. 8 events
Goldman Sachs said Samsung Electronics shares could swing sharply on October 8, when preliminary third-quarter results fall on the same day as semiconductor ETF rebalancing, options expiry and the end of a share buyback. The bank cut its th…
SME Minister Lee So-young unveils startup venture regulatory innovation committee at audit
South Korea's SMEs and startups minister, Lee So-young, said on October 7 that her ministry will create a "Startup Venture Regulatory Innovation Committee" to find regulatory improvements, and set out plans to expand the small-business soci…
Las acciones de Hong Kong abren al alza; el Hang Seng sube un 1% y Alibaba gana alrededor de un 2,9%
Las acciones de Hong Kong abrieron al alza el 6 de octubre, con el Hang Seng Index subiendo un 1% y el Hang Seng Tech Index un 1,02%, según CLS, Yicai y 36Kr. Alibaba subió alrededor de un 2,9% en la apertura, mientras que Baidu y Meituan g…
Korea's FSS tells 21 securities firms to shift to preventive internal audits
The Financial Supervisory Service met auditors from 21 securities firms in Seoul on Oct 7 and told them to move from audits that catch problems after the fact to preventive checks that protect investors first. The regulator cited repeated v…
Rusia dice que sus fuerzas avanzan en el norte y el centro de Dobropolye
El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia dijo que sus grupos de asalto avanzaron en las partes norte y central de Dobropolye, en la República Popular de Donetsk, y que unidades de infantería de marina terminaron de despejar edificios residenciales…
El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia dice que sus fuerzas estrechan el cerco en el noreste de la región de Járkov
El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia afirmó que unidades de su agrupación “Norte” están estrechando el cerco sobre formaciones ucranianas en el noreste de la región de Járkov y ampliando una zona exterior de control, con combates en varias ald…
Korea's top individual tax delinquent Kwon Hyuk to pay 393.8 billion won
The National Tax Service said on Oct 7 that Kwon Hyuk, chairman of Sido Group and the country's largest individual tax delinquent, has submitted a plan to pay 393.8 billion won in back taxes in full, 15 years after the tax was assessed. He …
UAE sets phased caps on salt, sugar and fat in packaged foods, fines up to Dh500,000
The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention has begun implementing a resolution that caps sodium, sugar and fat in selected packaged foods, with phased limits running until the end of 2030. The rules apply to locally made and imported produ…
China's central bank raises gold reserves for 23rd straight month
China's gold reserves stood at 77.47 million ounces, or about 2,409.59 tonnes, at the end of September, up 740,000 ounces (about 23.02 tonnes) from 76.73 million ounces (about 2,386.57 tonnes) a month earlier, according to figures carried b…
El promedio Nikkei recupera el nivel de 70.000 por primera vez en unos tres meses
El promedio Nikkei de Tokio superó los 70.000 durante la sesión del 5 de octubre, por primera vez en unos tres meses, ante una concentración de compras en acciones vinculadas a semiconductores e inteligencia artificial. Nikkei informó de un…
South Korea re-designates 92 population decline regions, adding Busan Geumjeong, Dongducheon and Tongyeong
South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety re-designated 92 cities, counties and districts as population decline regions on Oct. 7, up from 89 in the first designation five years ago. Busan's Geumjeong-gu, Gyeonggi's Dongducheon and …
Ataques con drones rusos alcanzan el Puente Norte de Kiev; cinco de seis están cerrados
Ataques con drones rusos alcanzaron el sábado por la mañana el Puente Pivnichnyi (Norte) de Kiev sobre el río Dniéper, hiriendo a dos personas y dañando la calzada y los cables de trolebús aéreos, dijo el alcalde Vitali Klitschko. Las autor…
S. Korea farm minister says minor farmland survey violations won't be punished
Agriculture minister Song Mi-ryung told a parliamentary audit on Oct 7 that most ordinary, customary violations found in the government's full farmland survey would not be punished, and that the government has no plan or reason to confiscat…
KOSPI opens down 1.11% at 6,864.25; KOSDAQ falls 0.27%
South Korea’s KOSPI opened 77.14 points, or 1.11%, lower at 6,864.25 on 7 October, while the KOSDAQ opened down 2.47 points, or 0.27%, at 917.45. The benchmark index rebounded to 6,944.83 by 09:25 as individual investors bought, then fell b…
El euro cae a su mínimo de 17 meses frente al dólar por las preocupaciones fiscales francesas
El euro cayó a un mínimo de 17 meses frente al dólar estadounidense, tocando los 1,1161 dólares el lunes, su nivel más débil desde mayo de 2025, ya que las preocupaciones sobre las finanzas públicas de Francia y una fuerte venta masiva de b…