President park geunhye is now embroiled in a deepening political scandal. Four years ago seoul cancele the signing of a similar agreement because of domestic opposition related to japans wartime past. Prosecutors in seoul are seeking to question President Park over the political scandal and public outrage against her shows no sign of abating. Nhk world has more. Reporter 260,000 people took part in the rally in seoul. Thats the biggest rally in south korea since its democratization in 1987. Translator this is the first time ive participated in a rally in over 40 years. I think President Park herself is not so bad, but politics itself is to blame. Translator i dont feel as though im fighting alone here. Our joint efforts may bring some changes. I hope more young people will Pay Attention to politics and make this country better. Reporter prosecutors say they have told the president ial office they want to question park on tuesday or wednesday. Theyre hoping to shed light on the scandal
President park geunhye is now embroiled in a deepening political scandal. Four years ago seoul cancele the signing of a similar agreement because of domestic opposition related to japans wartime past. Prosecutors in seoul are seeking to question President Park over the political scandal and public outrage against her shows no sign of abating. Nhk world has more. Reporter 260,000 people took part in the rally in seoul. Thats the biggest rally in south korea since its democratization in 1987. Translator this is the first time ive participated in a rally in over 40 years. I think President Park herself is not so bad, but politics itself is to blame. Translator i dont feel as though im fighting alone here. Our joint efforts may bring some changes. I hope more young people will Pay Attention to politics and make this country better. Reporter prosecutors say they have told the president ial office they want to question park on tuesday or wednesday. Theyre hoping to shed light on the scandal
Hanjin seeking to stop vessels from being stranded. Let us know what you think of our top stories. Straight to the markets. Hong kong getting underway in half an hour. Goinglumpur just getting on tuesday morning. Labor day currently in new york. David when you look at the basically next. This is what asia is looking like. Lets talk about europe. Flat fat slightly lower. Just above water there. Ftse 100 down. Asiapacific, what we have seen has been a kickoff when it comes to japan. Have a look at new zealand and south korea. Volumes are flat. Of korea just comes down to the turnover because of the surge in trade in hanjin shipping. Korean air and all the related companies in that trade. Taiwan out with Inflation Numbers, missing expectations. Just over half of 1 for august. It is much higher. No clear direction for asian markets. Have a look at currencies. The dollar is up a little bit at the moment. Europe butsession in a bit quiet when asia started. He dollar to yen, backup as you can
A lot of japan looking at hong kong and taiwan the performers across asia though hong kong is really, really ushing it. Lets shift gears away from the equity markets and look at what is happening across currency. Mostly a dollar up, moderate gain. The taiwan dollar here, part of this group pulling back against the dollar. Another tepid set of inflation reports out of each country. 46. 60. Weaker against the u. S. Dollar. If you look at the aussie dollar that is i think up for a fifth or sixth straight day ell above u. S. 60 or 70 cents. Commodities, with oil prices you can see ticking up further looking at maybe 80 cents higher compared to the cut off here though the iron ore prices youll want to watch very closely. Look at the contracts in singapore on the way up. Relatively its a decent session so far. Fplgs were good with that. We are moving ahead to the abe decision at 12 30 hong kong time. It is the end of an era in australia as governor glen stevens holds his final policy meeting
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