SEOUL – South Korea’s main inflation hovered over 2 percent for the sixth month in a row due to higher prices for agricultural products and oil products, the statistics bureau’s data showed on Wednesday.
The consumer price index (CPI) was 108.83 in September, an increase of 2.5 percent from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea. (South Korea CPI)
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MANILA – Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the only son of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, and Senator Panfilo Lacson submitted their presidential candidacies for the 2022 national election on Wednesday.
Marcos, 64, is the bearer of the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, a three-year political party he chairs. (Philippines Election President)
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STOCKHOLM – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 is awarded to two researchers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.
The Swedish Institute has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year to the German researcher Benjamin List and the Scottish-born researcher David WC MacMillan from Princeton University, “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” (Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Source: sn.dk