1. Operations to repatriate foreign nationals freed from scam centers in Myanmar continued on Thursday. Authorities have started to transport Indonesians to Thailand, and from there they will head home. Last week, hundreds of Chinese were repatriated. Thai authorities say they plan to move other foreign nationals in phrases.
2. Japan increased its cabbage imports in January by more than 40 times year-on-year as local harvests suffered from lack of rain. Ninety-five percent of the cabbage came from China. Imports of Chinese cabbage surged to 1,440 tons from almost zero a year earlier. And for lettuce, the amount was up by 80 percent.
3. The former chief treasurer of a faction of Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been questioned by a Diet committee about a political fund scandal. The faction was once led by the late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Members of the Lower House Budget Committee questioned Matsumoto Junichiro as an unsworn witness in a Tokyo hotel on Thursday. The close-door session continued for about 40 minutes.
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