 | | | World | | | | | | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is building a massive economic hub at the alpine town of Samjiyon, which North Korean defectors and human rights activists say is being built “slave labor”. Kim hopes to build new apartments, hotels, a ski resort and commercial, cultural and medical facilities by late 2020 as part of his campaign for a self-reliant economy. Young workers at the facility get no pay, poor food and are forced to work more than 12 hours a day for up to 10 years in return for better chances to enter a university or join the all-powerful Workers’ Party.
| | | | Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that his country was ready to cooperate with India in its investigation of a deadly bombing in the disputed Kashmir region last week, which India blamed on Pakistan, but warned of retaliation if attacked. | | | | Honda will close its only British car plant in 2021 with the loss of up to 3,500 jobs, a major departure of Japanese investment announced just over a month before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union. “This decision was not informed by Brexit,” said Honda Chief Executive Takahiro Hachigo, but the timing of the announcement comes amid deepening Japanese corporate worries about investing in Britain after it leaves the EU.
| | | | | | .@Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 435 days. Follow updates on the case: https://reut.rs/2SJk3He 7:30 AM - 19 Feb 2019 | | | |
