The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam and its South Korean counterpart have recently signed various agreements, including an exchange letter on the implementation of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA)
on the accumulation of origin of textile materials between the two countries. They have also signed an action plan aimed at achieving the goal of increasing bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2023.
Both sides addressed options for expanding and promoting bilateral trade relations, encouraging market opening for agricultural products, and resolving technical issues affecting their import-export activities.
The signing took place during the 10th meeting of the Joint Energy, Industry and Trade Cooperation Committee between Vietnam and South Korea on 10-12 December.
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Due to the ongoing trade dispute between Australia and China and the Sars-CoV 19 pandemic, a group of Indian sailors who have been stranded in Chinese territorial waters
have called for a "intervention" from the Indian government. Indian sailors make up a sizeable proportion of the world's merchant navy crews, as documented by Maritime Union of India (MUI). "We have been stuck here for a year now. We can't get medical treatment, we can't go out.
Our supplies are already running out," Gaurav Singh, a second officer aboard MV Anastasia, says in a video put up by Change.Org on Wednesday.
In contrast to countries like Great Britain, Germany does not exclude the Chinese with 5G across the board. But now the cabinet has agreed on stricter rules for foreign network equipment suppliers.
The federal government has been arguing for two years, now there is a draft law, the cabinet is supposed to get it underway on Wednesday. In contrast to countries like Great Britain and Sweden, Germany does not exclude Chinese companies across the board.
But Berlin, too, subjects the use of companies to strict rules. This is a problem for the German network operators: they have made themselves heavily dependent on #Huawei over the past few years. In the radio network of Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica,
Corona tests for travelers returning from risk areas with high numbers of infections abroad are no longer free as of today. The entitlement introduced in the summer has expired.
So far, vacationers have been able to get tested for free in order to shorten the mandatory quarantine when they return to Germany. Now the regulations are being tightened further.
Anyone who makes an "avoidable trip" to risk areas will no longer receive compensation for loss of earnings for the time of the quarantine. Exceptions are "exceptional circumstances" such as the birth of one's own children or the death of close relatives.
According to a media report, a medical director in Germany has confirmed for the first time that doctors in his clinic are faced with deciding which corona patients to help and which not. For t-online he confirmed it,
Dr. Mathias Mengel, Medical Director of the Klinikum Oberlausitzer Bergland gGmbH, said that the hospital in Zittau in Saxony had to be triaged several times. There weren't enough ventilation beds available, Mengel told the portal.
"In the past few days we have been in the situation several times that we had to decide who gets oxygen and who doesn't." Attempts are being made to transfer the patient for whom there is no care to another clinic.
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 1,370,045. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities that I have evaluated, 21,948 new cases were added. That is 3990 more than last Tuesday.
The number of infection-related deaths rose 777 to 23,106. The previous high since the beginning of the pandemic was recorded on December 8th with 568 deaths. Around 341,400 people are currently infected.
In their daily reports, six federal states recorded four-digit increases, with four states even having more than 3000 new cases: Nordrhein-Westfalen (4083 new cases) ahead of Bayern (3763), Baden-Württemberg (3295) and Sachsen (3167) Hessen (1418)