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All of the 1,572 market merchants displaced by the huge fire last March 11, 2023 are back in business. Everyone have been provided with spaces and stalls through the city-government-led rapid market clean-up and rebuilding campaign that accomplished the supposed three-month task in just seven days. Mayor Benjamin Magalong turned over the stalls to the market entrepreneurs on March 20, 2023, a day after the completion of the seven-day post-fire rehabilitation program that aimed to swiftly restore the livelihood of the merchants and bring back normalcy at the city’s trading center. — The STAR/Artemio Dumlao

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Five Chinese employees at the Beijing office of US due diligence firm Mintz Group have been detained by authorities, the company said Friday. "Chinese authorities have detained the five staff in Mintz Group's Beijing office, all of them Chinese nationals, and have closed our operations there," a company statement emailed to AFP said. The firm has "retained legal counsel to engage with the authorities and support our people and their families", it continued. Mintz has not "received any official legal notice regarding a case against the company and has requested that the authorities release its employees", the company said. "Mintz Group is licensed to conduct legitimate business in China, where we have always operated transparently, ethically and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations," it added, saying it would work with authorities to "resolve any misunderstanding that may have led to these events". Visited by AFP journalists Friday, the firm's Beijing office was void of any activity, with the glass front doors firmly sealed with a chain. — AFP

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International aid continues to come in nearly a month into local efforts to contain an oil spill in Oriental Mindoro that has threatened livelihood in coastal areas as well as the vulnerable marine habitat of the Verde Island Passage. The US Embassy in Manila announced on Friday that the US Agency for International Development will provide an additional P10 million in support to oil spill monitoring and response. Part of the funding will be used to train fisherfolk affected by a fishing ban in waters affected by the spill to help with coastal habitat assessments as citizen scientists. — AFP

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South Korea will seek the extradition of fugitive crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon, prosecutors told AFP Friday, after the Terraform founder was arrested in Montenegro and hit with US fraud charges. Kwon, whose full name is Kwon Do-hyung, has been accused of fraud over his company Terraform Lab's dramatic collapse last year, which wiped out about $40 billion of investors' money and shook global crypto markets. The 31-year-old was arrested at the Podgorica airport in Montenegro on a South Korean warrant, the country's interior ministry said Thursday. Shortly after, the United States charged him with eight counts, including securities fraud and wire fraud, which followed a lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In South Korea, where Kwon is wanted for violations of the country's capital markets act, authorities confirmed Friday that they would seek his extradition. "South Korean prosecutors will take steps to repatriate Kwon Do-hyung. We are working on the process," Kim Hee-kyung, a spokeswoman for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, told AFP. -- AFP

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Charles III arrives in France on Sunday for his first state visit as king, but the planned celebrations of historic cross-Channel relations face potential disruption from protests over unpopular pension reforms. Officials on both sides are keeping a close eye on the waves of strikes and disruption across France that could cause last-minute changes to the carefully crafted three-day programme. One concern is that protesters will use the occasion to publicise their fight against President Emmanuel Macron's bid to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. Striking trade unionists have even threatened to withhold red carpets for the visit but the body responsible insisted they would be rolled out as planned. Charles, 74, and Queen Consort Camilla, 75, are due to tour Paris and Bordeaux before heading to Germany. — AFP

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