The RCEP is a free trade pact involving the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and six other countries -- China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
The ROK Foreign Ministry said it will work on channeling the peace momentum created by Pyongyang's participation in the Winter Olympics into efforts to peacefully solve the nuclear issue.
The Purchasing Managers' Index, released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics, came in at 51.4 for July, down from 51.7 in June, but it remained well above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction.
The Republic of Korea's President Moon Jae-in delivers a New Year address at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, ROK, January 7, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is shown on Aug 20, 2018. [Photo/IC]
The Panama-registered oil tanker Sanchi, which was from Iran and had been carrying 111,300 metric tons of highly flammable condensate oil, collided with a Hong Kong cargo ship around 8 pm on Jan 6 some 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai.
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The SAT's "Internet + Taxation Initiative", which was launched in 2015, will "unlock the potential of big data to benefit taxpayers", as the report said, through sharing more data among government bodies to avoid repetitive data collection, online training to facilitate the understanding of systems and tax rules, and e-invoices to reduce the time and cost for handling paper invoices.
The People's Bank of China, the central bank, raised the rates of seven-day and 28-day reverse repo agreements (through which the central bank provides money to the market) and the rates of the medium-term lending facility and standing lending facility (monetary tools to adjust money supply) by 5 basis points on Thursday.
The Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund will focus on investing in startups developing new and innovative 5G use cases, driving 5G network transformation and expanding 5G into enterprise markets, the company said in a statement.
The ROK delegation planned to talk with their DPRK counterparts about schedule and agenda for the third Moon-Kim summit, which the two sides agreed to hold in Pyongyang before the end of September.