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  • Monday October 4th, 2021

MORNING NEWS BRIEF [October 04, 2021]

MORNING NEWS BRIEF [October 04, 2021]

MORNING NEWS BRIEF [October 04, 2021] 150 150 Cambodia Development Center
HOT NEWS
  1. French senator will lead delegation to Taipei after China increased its incursion into Taiwan airspace and opposed any official exchanges or contact to the Island Source: RFI
  2. Hungarian PM criticized the EU for the lack of autonomy in their policies and called on the bloc to enhance pragmatic economic and trade cooperation with China and Russia. Source: CGTN
  3. North Korea has announced that they will restore the inter-Korean communication hotline with South Korea in an attempt to improve their severed relations. Source: CGTN
WORLD
  1. The JCPOA remained in the deadlock between Iran and the world powers as Tehran continued to scale up their nuclear activities and the U.S. refused to return to the deal. Source: Anadolu Agency
  2. UAE eyes to manage long-running rivalries with Iran and Turkey through dialogue in order to avoid new confrontations concerning the U.S. uncertainty commitment in the region. Source: Al Jazeera
  3. Taliban officials reported that there was a deadly bomb attack in the Afghan capital with at least five casualties as the suspicion fell on the Islamic State Extremists. Source: ABC News
REGIONS
  1. China sent more than 30 military jets close to Taiwanese territory, the second largest display of force which will jeopardize regional peace, said Taiwan’s Defense Minister. Source: AP
  2. Japan’s incoming PM Fumio Kishida will officially take the office and convene a special parliament session, after the outgoing PM Suga dissolved his cabinet. Source: Deutsche Welle
  3. President Duterte said that his daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio who is currently the mayor of the Philippines’ largest city, Davao, will run for the presidency in the next year’s election. Source: CNA

 

CAMBODIA
  1. Cambodian FM will attend AMM, 24th APSC, and 30th ACC meeting to discuss upcoming ASEAN Summit, humanitarian assistance to Myanmar, COVID-19 responses, and beyond. Source: AKP
  2. The two-way trade between Cambodia and the U.S. reached over USD 4 billion in the first seven months of 2021, a year-on-year rise of 37 percent despite the pandemic crisis. Source: Khmer Times
  3. Cambodia exported almost 6 million tonnes of agricultural products in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year increase of more than 88 percent. Source: The Phnom Penh Post