Workers Party Broadcast on state run tv. Kim also called on the country to boost prosperity while focused on Defense Nuclear weapons. And he assured the country will have Sustainable Growth by launching a fiveyear Economic Strategy this year. Regarding relations with south korea kim called for unification under a federal system. His grandfather north korean founder kim ilsung proposed such a policy at the last Party Congress in 1980. Kim also demanded that japan apologize for its past sins and not disrupt the unification of the two koreas. He did not say anything about the japanese abducted by north korea decades ago. The bbc says north korean authorities expelled a reporter and his crew after they were detained over their reporting. Tokyo based correspondent rupert wingfieldhayes, a producer and a cameraman were stopped friday. They were at the Pyongyang Airport about to leave the country. The officials held them for three days and they questioned wingfieldhayes for about eight hours
Because of the fires in canada which has knocked down about 1000 barrels of oil a day. Now that, as he would expect, has given of the dollar a boost. The regional look is pretty flat. Taking a look at oil and gas, we are seeing a that up one third of 1 . We are tracking the 28 stocks down and seeing the majority are high. You can see that in australia and here in hong kong, we have certainly among the best performers. Also here in hong kong, theyre up by 3 . Quite a boost to the oil sector. , this has given a boost to the japanese economy . Yes, this was after quite a shocker last week, but it was in the red for most of the session today. On its lunch break, up one half of 1 . We did hear a more good news coming through from the u. S. Markets on friday, the likelihood of a rate hike in june a very much dissipating according to many economists and does that and that does give you a general impression. Ng kong will be good as well of openingsessions up to three quarters of 1 . The trade
Left emergency shelters to return home, where the second major tremor took their lives. And a cold competition. Investing in property and business overseas. Mitsubishi sales were down 14 from the previous year. After they falsified fuel economy data for some models. Mitsubishi sold about 3600 new vehicles last month. Its down 14. 8 compared to the same year. Mitsubishi stopped selling two mi minivehicles. The groups minivehicle sales fell 44. 9 last month. Nissan motor stopped selling two mini vehicle models made by mitsubishi. Nissans new car sales fell 22. 2 . Many vehicles accounted for 60 of mitsubishis new car sales in japan and 30 of nissans. Japanese government officials are conducting their own tests to measure fuel efficiency of vehicles made by mitsubishi motors. Automakers admission that it manipulated data on more than 620,000 cars. Nhk worlds kurando tago reports. Reporter transport Ministry Officials are taking matters in to their own hands. They say mitsubishi has betray
225 putting the figure had 20 million, although honda will not confirm that. The elections are underway in the philippines with more than 50 million voters eligible. At stake is an economy described as asias rising tiger. Follow me on twitter. Hong kong markets getting underway in 30 minutes. We are a pickup on index, up over three quarters of 1 . In two weeks. In this will be the first time japan has been online for all five trading days of the week after being shut last week and that prior friday. A little bit of a comeback today , helping alongside the weaker yen. Taiwan just coming online. Singapore, a good opening. Pretty flat in malaysia on the open. The south korea underperforming. The Australian Market had a shaky start. We are seeing gains coming through in the early session. Asx 200 up. New zealand, down 1 10 of 1 . We will see Better Movement in the region today. Positive gains coming through in the u. S. Session on friday. Betting thatomists the likelihood of a jew rate hik
Increase by about 73. Caps on died. 73 at hyundai. Shares are down a 31 . Onlines cracking down on lenders by releasing guidelines for peertopeer platforms. It is a first for the industry. The banking regular has vowed to cleanse the market. New rules state that the platform should serve as an intermediary. It isomes as pboc says expanding containment of online firms. Workers in beijing have been told to cut heating to as low as 14 degrees celsius due to a natural gas shortage, which is resulting in import delays. This has delayed unloading tankers carrying gas. The highest court in the philippines has temporarily stopped senator grace poe from being disqualified as president ial in the president ial race. You have questions regarding her citizenship. She renounced her citizenship in e u. S. N1 to live in th but became a dual citizen. Australian equities are the only bright spot in what is seemingly a selloff daytoday. Ok, we will see you in a bit. Works from a studios in new york city