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22 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Amid a growing property crisis, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced that 5-year loan prime rates will be slashed by 15 basis-points to 4.2% while 1-year loan prime rates, which is often used for corporate loans, will be decreased from 3.7% to...
19 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
With tax revenue from alcohol shrinking from 5% of its total revenue in 1980 to about 1.7% in 2020, Japan's National Tax Agency has launched a national campaign to reverse the trend and boost the industry. In the latest campaign known as "Sake Viva!"...
15 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Aramco, reported a 90% year-on-year profit increase in Q2, 2022, marking the world's largest energy exporter's most profitable quarter since its public listing 3 years ago. Following the report the 48.4 billion Unite...
1 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
The Taliban government of Afghanistan reported that a clash between Afghan forces and Iranian border guards resulted in one death and one wounded on the border between Afghanistan's Nimroz province and Iran's Hirmand county. Meanwhile, Iranian report...
25 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At 20:05 local time, the Sakurajima Volcano on Kagoshima prefecture of Japan erupted, sending cinders, ashes, and rocks up to 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) from the crater. Following the eruption, the Japan Meteorological Agency raised the eruptio...
20 Jul 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
In the second-quarter earnings report, Netflix indicated that about 970,000 subscriptions were lost between April and June, marking the largest quarterly loss of users in the company's 25 year-long history. The latest loss also follows a decline of 2...
18 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Meridian Flight 3032 crashed into fields near Kavala, Greece, resulting in the deaths of all 8 Ukrainian nationals onboard the aircraft. The Soviet-era Antonov An-12BK cargo plane was carrying nearly 11 tonnes of munitions from Niš, Serbia, to Dhaka,...
9 Jul 2022 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot from behind and killed in the city of Nara while giving a speech for Kei Sato, member of the Japanese Upper House (House of Councillors) running for re-election in Nara. The attacker opened fire at 1...
5 Jul 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that to help combat the annual inflation of over 191% measured last month and to provide a storage of value, gold coins known as the "Mosi-Oa-Tunya Gold Coins" will be available for purchase starting on July 25t...
2 Jul 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
In an effort to combat illegal logging and West African Rosewood smuggling, officials of The Gambia have banned all timber exports, revoked all active export licenses, and will now also prohibit rosewood imports effective immediately. Port authoritie...
