South Korea to seek win-win trade deal with US

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SEOUL, July 8 (Xinhua) — The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea (ROK) said Tuesday it will make efforts to reach a mutually beneficial trade deal with the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively delayed the imposition of new tariffs on South Korean products.

The ministry said in a statement that Seoul has been actively negotiating since the inauguration of the new government led by President Lee Jae-myung on June 4, guided by the principle of prioritizing national interests.

The ministry noted that there is not enough time to reach an agreement on all issues, considering D. Trump’s letter to be a de facto postponement of the introduction of “equivalent” tariffs on South Korean products.

The ministry promised to step up efforts to achieve mutually beneficial results in the remaining period of negotiations to quickly resolve tariff-related uncertainties, adding that Kazakhstan will address the trade deficit that worries the US by improving domestic rules and streamlining regulations.

According to the statement, the ministry will seek to create an opportunity for a breakthrough in key industries through partnership between the two countries to revive manufacturing.

In his letter to the South Korean leader, published on the social network Truth Social, D. Trump said that the two countries must abandon the long-term and permanent trade deficit caused by tariffs, non-tariff policies and trade barriers on the part of the Republic of Korea. –0–

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Mongolia hosts the festival “Mongols in National Costume-2025”

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ULAN BATOR, July 8 (Xinhua) — The traditional annual festival "Mongols in National Costume-2025" is being held in the central square of Ulan Bator on Tuesday ahead of the national holiday of Naadam.

The current event is hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth of Mongolia, the Capital Tourism Office, the Mongolian Tourism Association and the Mongolian Costume Center.

According to the organizers, the purpose of this festival is to promote tourism, popularize national clothing and pass on the culture of wearing Mongolian national costume to the next generation.

The festival is expected to include a parade of Mongolians in national costume, a display of a collection of traditional Mongolian clothing, a competition for the best couple in national costume, and an exhibition of souvenirs and handicrafts. –0–

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17 people missing after landslide near China-Nepal border point /detailed version-1/

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LHASA, July 8 (Xinhua) — A total of 17 people are missing after a landslide occurred early Tuesday near the Gyirong checkpoint on the China-Nepal border, local authorities said.

According to the local administration, the emergency occurred at approximately 05:00 Beijing time.

Of those missing, 11 were on the Chinese side of the border with Nepal, while the remaining six were Chinese construction workers on the Nepalese side.

The Gyirong border crossing is located in the county of the same name in the city of Shigatse, Xizang Autonomous Region /Southwest China/. -0-

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GUU professor discusses staff shortage on OSN TV

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In the program "It's Worth Thinking About" on the Public News Service (OSN) TV channel, experts discussed the acute problem of personnel shortage that the Russian economy is facing. One of the speakers was Vladimir Volokh, professor of the Department of Public Administration and Political Technologies at the State University of Management, member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Interethnic Relations and the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and a specialist in migration policy.

The discussion touched upon the reasons for the current situation, including demographic factors, the outflow of qualified specialists abroad, and insufficient training of personnel within the country. The participants of the program considered various scenarios for solving the problem, including attracting labor resources from abroad, improving the qualifications and retraining of Russian specialists, as well as stimulating the birth rate and supporting young families.

Professor Volokh shared his expert opinion on the role of migration policy in solving the problem of personnel shortage, emphasizing the need to create favorable conditions for attracting qualified foreign specialists and their successful integration into Russian society. He also noted the importance of combating illegal migration and protecting the rights of labor migrants.

The program featured various points of view on the problem of personnel shortage and possible ways to solve it. The participants in the discussion agreed on the need for a comprehensive approach, including measures of economic, social and migration policy.

The full recording of the program “It’s Worth Thinking About” on the topic “Shortage of Personnel: How to Save the Russian Economy” can be viewed on the website of the Public News Service.

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GUU employees improve their qualifications in the field of reverse engineering

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Director of the Engineering Project Management Center of the State University of Management Vladimir Filatov successfully completed training in the advanced training program "Reverse Engineering for Managers". The program was organized by the Agency for Technological Development and the Center for Continuing Education of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The course is aimed at mastering advanced methods of analysis and adaptation of existing technological solutions, which is especially important for the effective management of innovation and engineering projects. The training covered key aspects of reverse engineering, including methods for decomposing complex systems, analyzing competitive solutions, and implementing best practices in development processes.

“The knowledge and tools acquired will allow us to optimize project management in our Center, as well as strengthen interaction with industrial partners within the framework of technological development,” Vladimir Filatov noted following the training.

The State University of Management continues to actively develop the competencies of its employees and expresses gratitude to the organizers of the training: the Agency for Technological Development and the Center for Continuing Education of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

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Integration of education and production: SPbPU students defended their final work at Power Machines

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Students of the Institute of Industrial Management, Economics and Trade of SPbPU defended a comprehensive final qualification work in the format of "Final Qualification Work as a Project" to solve real production and management problems of the customer – JSC "Power Machines".

Three students majoring in Management, International Logistics, divided the tasks among themselves as follows: Darya Snigireva considered the issues of developing fast purchases through the implementation and adaptation of marketplaces, and Maria Shapova dealt with illiquid assets: working with unloading, organizing unscheduled inventories, creating a pricing system. Both girls were advised by Nikita Lukashevich, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Industrial Management. Yana Salangina took on the transformation of the enterprise's warehouse accounting and the development of recommendations for improving the management of the warehouse complex (consultant – Zoya Simakova, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Industrial Management).

The main task of the student of the "Trade" direction, profile "Logistics systems in trade", Ekaterina Rakcheeva was to develop a procurement training system and fill the "Knowledge Base" of the enterprise. Ekaterina was advised by Associate Professor of the Higher School of Service and Trade Irina Kapustina. The overall assessment of the effectiveness of the developed activities was made by a student of the "Economics" direction, profile "Economics and management at the enterprise", Anna Myasnikova (consultant – Professor of the Higher School of Engineering and Economics Svetlana Suloeva). The project was supervised by Senior Lecturer of the Higher School of Industrial Management, the ideologist of the implementation of the complex final qualifying work on the part of the Polytechnic University Egor Temirgaliev.

The meeting of the State Examination Committee was held on the premises of the Leningrad Metal Plant of JSC Power Machines. The State Examination Committee was headed by the Director for Development of General Industrial Suppliers of Power Machines, Evgeniya Khmel. The SEC also included representatives of the customer and the university.

The result of the students' work was a set of measures that optimize production and management processes at the enterprise. In particular, recommendations for improving the purchasing activities of Power Machines through the implementation of an industrial marketplace make it possible to reduce the duration of the purchasing process. The proposed automation of contractual activities through the development of a template for filling out a contract reduces the time of the purchasing manager. Due to the developed recommendations for improving warehouse operations through the implementation of barcoding, as well as the implementation of an automated warehouse complex management system, the time for performing warehouse operations is reduced, the accuracy of accounting and the throughput of the warehouse are increased.

During the defense, the members of the State Examination Commission asked many questions, touching on their areas of professional interest. As a result, the commission rated the work as excellent.

After the results were announced, the chairperson of the State Examination Commission, Evgeniya Khmel, summed up the defense: On the customer's side, we make fairly high demands on students both during the pre-graduation internship and writing of the work, and during the defense itself. It is very important for us that the tasks that we set for students at the beginning of their journey find application in our business after the defense of the diploma. I can say that the team did a great job!

This is already the third project successfully implemented by IPMET students for Power Machines. Last year, the Polytechnicians defended a comprehensive final qualifying work commissioned by Power Machines – Leningrad Metal Plant on the topic of transforming the purchasing activities of an industrial enterprise in order to reduce slow-turnover inventories, and in 2023 worked on the project "Harmonization of production needs with the provision of components and materials" by order of "Power Machines" – the "Elektrosila" plant.

We attach great importance to the preparation of comprehensive final qualification works created by order of industrial enterprises of St. Petersburg. In this way, we solve a dual task: on the one hand, we help the enterprise to take a new look at production and management processes, on the other hand, we prepare young qualified specialists for our strategic partner, the Power Machines company, who, while still students, successfully completed pre-graduation practice, then wrote a diploma work and, most importantly, became employees of this enterprise, – commented the director of IPMEiT Vladimir Shchepinin.

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NSU Startup Studio Presented Its Projects for the First Time in the Form of the Artificial Intelligence Alley

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The Alley of Friendship of Artificial and Natural Intelligence was a horizontal space designed as a real alley: it had trees and a waterfall, and an interactive exhibition was inscribed into such a landscape. The alley symbolized a walk of an ordinary person through the world of artificial intelligence and modern technologies that are available on the market and that can be tried right here and now. In total, over 1,000 people walked through the alley during the day of work – from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: each of the visitors got involved in the interactive activities presented at the stands. A separate bright component of the exhibition was the game "Startup Race", which the NSU Startup Studio presented to a wide audience and tested in action.

The alley included the following technologies and developments:

1. Emotion analyzer

At the reception for registering guests of Smart Picnic there was a special camera with an interactive screen. Anyone could come up, make a face, and the screen would display the emotion they were experiencing.

The guests were particularly impressed by this invention: everyone had fun and amusement checking how well their faces were able to express emotions. The technology also has medical applications for diagnosing diseases associated with incorrect display of emotions on the face.

2. Virtual assistant

After the first stop, guests were met by a virtual animator from the NSU Startup Studio, who announced all the technologies created using artificial intelligence.

3. Emulator of human personality in voice

NSU students who received a grant created a voice simulator that imitated the personality of famous people. Visitors to the alley interacted with the simulator through their voice, trying to sell it a pen or ask a question, like in the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street."

4. Smile analyzer

The next stand was a smile analyzer, developed jointly with a doctor from the Rostov Medical University. The device, using a patented method, gave recommendations on the health of teeth and the oral cavity based on a smile analysis.

5. Game "Academ Dreams"

This stand offered to immerse oneself in the world of Akademgorodok in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Players could become virtual residents of the science town and interact with its inhabitants, creating a copy of themselves in the virtual space.

6. Swaid Monitor

It was a photoplethysmograph that recorded heart rate readings and constructed a stress index using the Baevsky method. Together with the staff of the Psychology department of the Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies of NSU, the game "Calm Down" was developed, in which participants put on a bracelet and, while meditating, watched the stress line decrease on the screen. The monitor helped participants achieve a meditative state even in a crowd.

7. Map of emotions

Each of the visitors to the alley and the Picnic sites in general could mark themselves on the map and indicate what emotion they are currently experiencing in real time. The development is also intended for deep behavioral research: for example, what emotion and how intensely a particular group of people in a particular location experiences.

8. Games with artificial intelligence

Several separate stands presented interactive games in which visitors fought against AI – "Crocodile" and "Riddles". Separately, an interactive demo board was presented with photographs of how people interact with inventions at the exhibition.

9. Game "Startup Race"

The development was first presented at the alley and was tested in real time.

Of course, not all projects of the NSU Startup Studio were presented at the Alley, since among its participants there are more than 30 residents with their own ideas and projects.

— The Artificial Intelligence Exhibition became a kind of "frontier" for us, which could be organized at the Smart Picnic site. On the one hand, the alley became our product and even an element of the interactive show, and, on the other hand, it was also a challenge for our residents and partners — they had to show their technology to people in extreme conditions and, despite everything, think through to the smallest detail how to present a demo version of the product, what to say in the opening speech, at what points it is worth speeding up production in order to show a finished product, and not just developments and an idea. That is, the Artificial Intelligence Alley became a powerful incentive for our residents to work, — said Evgeny Ivanov, a representative of the NSU Startup Studio and managing partner of the Coion investment syndicate.

According to Evgeniy, some startups actually showed high growth rates thanks to their participation in the Alley.

— One of the projects, Lexis Voice, the very same stand with a voice imitator and the question "Sell a pen", showed a good result. The team accelerated in all directions, from development to sales market. Thus, in a month and a half, the project's revenue increased 5 times, because there was a strict deadline – participation in the exhibition, and a clear understanding of what should be ready by this time, — summed up Evgeny Ivanov.

The next step in popularizing innovative entrepreneurship after the Artificial Intelligence Alley is the Startup Unit school, which started in July, where anyone can feel like a budding entrepreneur. After the school, in the fall, all students will be able to start the NSU acceleration program .catalyst, and residents of the NSU startup studio will also be able to take part in the Siberian Venture Fair, where they will present projects in the format of idea boards. The goal of all these projects is one – to bring to life the ideas and developments of students.

— The fair is really one of the elements of the chain, which the Startup Studio is developing with its residents. Ultimately, all this is so that innovators launch some product, a viable business, and then return to the state the resources that are invested in them in the form of various subsidies, grant support that they can attract. Our task is for our residents to “spend” these funds correctly and as a result, a finished product is obtained that is needed by someone and will be sold, — emphasized Alexey Starostin, Director of the NSU Startup Studio.

Material prepared by: Tatyana Ershova, NSU press service

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China to Present Achievements of 14th Five-Year Plan Period

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BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) — China's State Council Information Office will hold a series of press conferences to showcase the country's high-quality implementation of the tasks set for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).

The first press conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday. Zheng Shanjie, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will present the country's achievements in socio-economic development during this period and answer questions from media representatives. -0-

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China Ready to Work with International Community to Bring Global Economy Back to Normal: Li Qiang

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Monday that China is ready to work with the international community to achieve a speedy recovery of the global economy.

Li Qiang made the remarks during a meeting with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the sidelines of the 17th BRICS summit.

World trade has undergone significant changes with the rise of unilateralism and protectionism, which has seriously affected the international economic and trade order and created serious challenges for the world economy and the development of countries, Li Qiang said.

Against this backdrop, the international community is increasingly calling for the protection of the multilateral trading system and placing increasing hopes on the WTO to play a more active role, he added.

Noting that economic globalization is an irreversible trend of history, Li Qiang said China will, as always, continue to practice and safeguard multilateralism and free trade, actively support the reform and development of the WTO to restore its authority, speed up the improvement of trade rules, and push for more concrete results from the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference.

Li Qiang noted that China has abundant resources and means to counter adverse external influences, and is confident and capable of promoting sustainable and healthy economic development.

This year, China has implemented more proactive and effective macroeconomic policies, advanced the strategy of expanding domestic demand and launched special initiatives to boost consumption, he said, noting the huge growing demand driven by a super-large market of more than 1.4 billion consumers.

China, Li Qiang added, will take further measures for voluntary and unilateral opening-up, strictly abide by the principles and market rules of the WTO, and continue to share development opportunities with other countries to bring positive energy to the world. -0-

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50 Marmots Reintroduced to Eastern Mongolia to Maintain Ecological Balance

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ULAN BATOR, July 8 (Xinhua) — A total of 50 marmots have been recently reintroduced in eastern Mongolia's Dornod province, the provincial Department of Environment and Tourism said Tuesday.

“This step is part of the country’s efforts to maintain ecological balance, reduce soil degradation and combat desertification, and restore degraded pastures,” the department said in a statement.

Marmots living in Mongolia are represented by two species – the gray marmot and the Siberian marmot /tarbagan/. The habitat of these species covers an area of about 235 thousand square kilometers, which is 15.6 percent of the entire territory of Mongolia. –0–

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