Reformist Pezeshkian and conservative Jalili head to the second round

Today’s news: Outgoing Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai won but lost many votes in Mongolia’s snap elections. Vietnam’s economy is driven by microchip exports. A Chinese employee died defending two Japanese in the attack on a school bus in Suzhou a few days ago. Busan is the first South Korean metropolis at risk of extinction due to the demographic crisis.

IRAN

The recount is still being carried out and already a second round is anticipated in Iran’s presidential elections. The reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian leads with about 1 million votes ahead of the conservative Saeed Jalili, but far from the 50% of votes necessary to be elected. Although the polling stations remained open until midnight, participation was low, around 40%. The second round will take place on Friday, July 5.

MONGOLIA

The ruling party won the early parliamentary elections in Mongolia, but by a much narrower margin than the opposition. Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai told reporters that the Mongolian People’s Party won between 68 and 70 of the 126 seats up for grabs. Despite the victory, it is a setback for Luvsannamsrai and his party, which had won 62 of the 76 seats in parliament in 2020.

VIETNAM

Vietnam’s economy is growing more than expected. In the second quarter of 2024, the increase in GDP is expected to reach 6.93% compared to the previous year. The result is driven by exports in the field of electronics and fishery products, favored by the push for diversification in microchip supply chains.

CHINA JAPAN

China and Japan paid tribute yesterday to the bus employee schoolboy from the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, who died on June 24 from stab wounds while defending a Japanese mother and child in a knife attack. “Hu Youping will be honored for her heroic acts,” state news agency quoted local authorities as saying. Xinhua. The recognition came as authorities sought to quell anti-Japanese sentiment on Chinese social media platforms and Japan warned its citizens living in China to take extra precautions to protect themselves from similar attacks.

SOUTH KOREA

Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, was classified as a metropolitan area in danger of extinction According to a survey by the Korea Employment Information Service, the risk of extinction is a rate calculated by the ratio of the female population aged 20 to 39 to the elderly population aged 65 or older. Busan is the first metropolitan area in South Korea to have dropped in this index to 0.49, or below the 0.50 threshold that indicates the risk of extinction. Busan had 3.88 million inhabitants in 1995 and last year the population rose to 3.3 million.

RUSSIA

More than 30,000 immigrants who have obtained Russian citizenship refused to be included in military service and are currently in places of detention, as announced by the head of the Russian Investigative Commission, Alexander Bastrykin, to prevent them from leaving the country, while 10 thousand were sent to the front in Ukraine.

KYRGYZSTAN

The Žogorku Keneš, the Kyrgyz parliament, has finally passed a law on the rehabilitation of citizens who suffered repression for their political or religious opinions between 1918 and 1953, the years of the revolution and Stalin’s dictatorship, including the persecution of all Soviet organizations, including trade unions and cooperatives.