CHINA: Beijing announced on Friday that it is imposing provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 62.4 per cent on imports of pork from the European Union.

The Commerce Ministry said in a statement that it made a preliminary determination that Europe is dumping pork and pig by-products on the Chinese market and causing “substantial damage” to China’s pork industry.

It said it was imposing duties starting on September 10. 

SRI LANKA: A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday.

The accident reportedly occurred on Thursday night near the town of Wellawaya, about 174 miles east of the capital Colombo.

SOUTH KOREA: Seoul on Friday expressed “concern and regret” over a major United States immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, which officials said led to the detainment of an unspecified number of South Korean nationals.

Thursday’s raid targeted one of Georgia’s largest and most high-profile manufacturing sites, touted by the governor and other officials as the largest economic development project in the state’s history. 

PAKISTAN: Islamabad signed $8.5 billion (£6.3bn) in new investment agreements with China during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s media reported on Friday.

The accords were finalised on Thursday in the Chinese capital city include $7bn (£5bn) in a memoranda of understanding and $1.5bn (£1.12bn) in joint ventures including agriculture, renewable energy and electric vehicles.