The country suffers from a labor shortage caused by unprecedented nationwide Omicron outbreak Australia on Wednesday issued an invitation to international backpackers and students, seeking to reinforce its failing workforce as an Omicron outbreak leads to record high levels of deaths and hospitalizations, straining the country’s healthcare system. During a televised press conference, Prime Minister […]
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Pyongyang restores hotline with Seoul, calls for ‘positive efforts’ to ease Korean peninsula tensions
The two Koreas have reopened a cross-border communications channel, shuttered by Pyongyang two months ago in protest against Seoul’s military drills with the US. Tensions escalated further amid recent missile tests by the North. “The South Korean authorities should make positive efforts to put the north-south ties on a right track and settle the important […]
New Zealand launches new isolation plan for business travelers, aiming to ease Covid-19 restrictions
A ‘pilot’ scheme to allow certain people arriving in New Zealand to isolate at home instead of at state-run quarantine facilities has been introduced by authorities, who have been criticized for their tough pandemic measures. The home isolation strategy will be tested on 150 people, and all those who are interested can apply from Thursday […]



