KUALA LUMPUR: Bargain hunting boosted Bursa Malaysia after four days of losses, as investors capitalised on opportunities, mirroring the performance of regional peers.
BEIJING: North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China , travel agencies said on Wednesday , abruptly reversing Pyongyang's recent decision to reopen its frontier to tourism after five years of isolation.
Fellow travel agency Koryo Tours said"Rason is temporarily closed", with Beijing-based general manager Simon Cockerell telling AFP that those already in North Korea would"finish their trips as planned". Rason, which lies near the borders with China and Russia, became North Korea's first special economic zone in 1991.
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