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March 03, 2021 11:02 Five Koreans will play in Major League Baseball in the upcoming season as infielder Kim Ha-seong and pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong have newly joined the San Diego Padres and the Texas Rangers. The other three are Ryu Hyun-jin of the Toronto Blue Jays, Kim Kwang-hyun of the St. Louis Cardinals and Choi Ji-man of the Tampa Bay Rays. Choo Shin-soo, who played for the Rangers, left the club to play in Korea. They are now taking part in spring training, for which exhibition games started on Sunday. Kim Ha-seong went 1-for-4 in his first two exhibition games for the Padres in Arizona but hit all four balls hard. In Monday's game against the Chicago Cubs, he lined a ball directly at the left fielder in his first appearance before hitting a hard single his second time up, while on Sunday he flied out to the outfield twice against the Seattle Mariners. "Four plate appearances, four barrels. He's off to a really good start," Padres manager Jayce Tingler said. ... » Learn More about 5 Koreans Preparing to Make Mark in New MLB Season

March 05, 2021 13:21 President Moon Jae-in will get his coronavirus vaccination in April, Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday. Moon will be given an AstraZeneca jab in a bid to allay public fears about the brand. A Cheong Wa Dae spokesman said. "Like ordinary people, he won't choose his vaccine." Pfizer's vaccine, which thought to be more reliable and less prone to producing side effects, is only given to medical professionals, the spokesman added. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency does not let people choose a vaccine, except for officials who need to visit foreign countries on urgent duties. Currently, the AstraZeneca vaccine is only available for people under 65 here, but the tide is turning in some European countries which have now approved it for the elderly, and Moon is 68. His inoculation will be fixed depending on his schedule to attend the G7 summit in the U.K. in June, the spokesman added. Moon is expected to get the first dose in early April and the second ... » Learn More about Moon in Line for Coronavirus Vaccination Next Month

March 05, 2021 13:30 Korea imported record amounts of wine last year as more people opted to drink at home amid the coronavirus epidemic. According to data from the Korea Customs Service on Thursday, Korea imported more than 44,000 tons of wine, up 31.9 percent from the previous year. That was around US$269 million worth of wine, up 34.6 percent from a year earlier. Both the amount and the value are an all-time high. On the other hand, imports of beer and whiskey plummeted more than 20 percent. Korea imported about 278,000 tons of beer, down 22.8 percent, while whiskey imports declined 20.1 percent to around 16,000 tons. Beer imports were hit by a boycott of Japanese goods as people drank more domestic beers instead. Chile, which specializes in budget plonk, was the top exporter of wines to Korea with 32.7 percent or 14,434 tons, followed by Spain (6,569 tons), Italy (5,781 tons), France (5,588 tons) and the U.S. (4,742 tons). Smoking on the Rise Amid ... » Learn More about Wine Imports Spike in Lockdown

LONDON : The majority of global Covid-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese , with coronavirus fatality rates 10 times higher in nations where at least 50% of adults are overweight , a global study found on Thursday. The report, which described a "dramatic" correlation between countries' Covid-19 death and obesity rates, found that 90% or 2.2 million of the 2.5 million deaths from the pandemic disease so far were in countries with high levels of obesity. The study analysed the Covid-19 death figures from Johns Hopkins University in the United States and the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory data on obesity. Strikingly, the authors said, there is no example of a country where people are generally not overweight or obese having high Covid-19 death rates. "Look at countries like Japan and South Korea, where they have very low levels of Covid-19 deaths as well as very low levels of adult obesity," said Tim Lobstein, an ... » Learn More about Time to watch your weight: Obesity can increase risk of Covid fatality

Video Player Close GENEVA, March 5 (Xinhua) -- COVAX, the international vaccine campaign co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners, had delivered more than 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 20 countries, the WHO chief said on Friday. Earlier this week, the first COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using doses provided by COVAX began in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, which were later followed by shipment to another 18 countries, mostly in Africa. In the next week, COVAX will deliver 14.4 million doses to a further 31 countries,WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing. However, the volume of doses being distributed through COVAX is still relatively small, only covering between two and three percent of the population of the countries receiving the vaccines through COVAX, he said. Tedros said his organization is working on efforts to connect companies who are producing vaccines with others who have excess capacity to ... » Learn More about COVAX delivers over 20 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 20 countries: WHO

March 06, 2021 08:27 The coronavirus epidemic has paradoxically led to fewer divorces, even though couples are spending more time together cooped up at home all day. According to Statistics Korea, 106,512 couples divorced last year, down 3.8 percent from the previous year. The number of divorce cases filed in court also declined from 8,600 to 8,300. The development contrasts with previous crises in Korea. In the Asian financial crisis in 1998, the divorce rate rose 27 percent, while in 2003, a year after the credit card bubble burst, divorces surged 15 percent. In 2009, after the global financial crisis, divorces increased around six percent. Lee Woong-jin at matchmaking agency Sunwoo said, "This shows that there is a difference between types of crises -- one caused by the epidemic and others caused by financial difficulties." But the main reason may be that courts did not sit as frequently as in normal times. One judge at the Seoul Family Court said, "Many of the ... » Learn More about Divorce Rate Drops in Epidemic

China will give priority to high-quality development this year, setting its GDP growth target at above 6 percent, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, as the world's second-largest economy looks to cement its economic recovery from a year disrupted by COVID-19. In the Government Work Report delivered at the opening of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress, Li underscored that the economic fundamentals that will sustain China's long-term growth remain unchanged despite potential risks and challenges this year. "In setting this target, we have taken into account the recovery of economic activity. A target of over 6 percent will be well aligned with the annual goals of subsequent years in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), and will help sustain healthy economic growth," he explained. President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, and other leaders also ... » Learn More about Govt to focus on top-quality development

China's pragmatic opening-up measures released in the draft 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) have fully demonstrated the country's resolve to further integrate with and contribute to the world economy, officials and experts said on Friday. In the draft Outline for the 14th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development and Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035, China has vowed to unswervingly open its economy wider, further promote the free flow of production factors and expand institutional opening-up in the coming five years. The country must leverage its domestic market to create strong gravitation for global factors and resources in the coming five years, as part of efforts to build the new dual-circulation development paradigm, in which the domestic market is the mainstay while the domestic and international markets support each other, Xinhua News Agency reported the outline as saying on Friday. Premier Li Keqiang outlined specific opening-up measures for this year, ... » Learn More about Nation shows resolve to further integrate with global economy

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Digital skills are becoming an essential component for employees to perform their jobs proficiently. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this digitisation journey to a certain extent for organisations as well as individuals. India’s present workforce comprises only 12% digitally skilled employees, and the number of employees requiring digital skills in the country will need to increase nine-fold by 2025, according to a report commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Also Read | 83% of Indian employees worried about returning to office without COVID-19 vaccine The research surveyed over 500 digital workers in India, and 3,196 workers in total across six countries in the APAC region, including Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Nearly 150 million workers in six APAC countries apply digital skills on the job, and those in ... » Learn More about India’s digital skilled workforce needs to grow nine-fold by 2025: AWS survey