Day: June 24, 2019

‘No more survivors’ in Cambodia building collapse as toll hits 24

12:26 pm June 24, 2019

Sihanoukville: The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to be found under the debris of the seven-storey Chinese-owned construction site. Workers clawed back the rubble overnight as a grim-faced Cambodian premier Hun Sen visited the scene of the […]

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N. Korea made USD 120 mn a year from joint factory park: report

12:21 pm June 24, 2019

Seoul: North Korea raked in more than USD 120 million a year from a symbolic cross-border industrial zone that Pyongyang and Seoul are pushing to re-open as part of nuclear negotiations, a report said Monday. The Kaesong Industrial Complex — where around 55,000 North Korean workers churned out products ranging from watches to clothes for […]

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