TOKYO -- A Japanese cybersecurity firm has identified distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting 46 companies and organizations in Japan, local media reported Sunday.

Trend Micro identified and analyzed networks called botnets that were highly likely used in the DDoS attacks, in which massive amounts of data are sent to websites or servers to make them crash, public broadcaster NHK reported. (Japan-Cyberattack)

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PHNOM PENH -- Wanli Tire Co. Ltd., a subsidy of China's Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings Group (GIIHG), on Sunday began to construct a car tire factory in southeast Cambodia's Svay Rieng province, said a news release from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC).

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and CDC first vice-president Sun Chanthol attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the plant on a 32-hectare parcel in the Sin Bavet Special Economic Zone in Bavet town on the border with Vietnam, the news release said, adding that the plant will create 1,000 jobs when it is put into operation. (Cambodia-China-Car Tire Plant)

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SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial, scheduled for Tuesday, for safety concerns, Yoon's defense counsel said Sunday.

Yun Gap-geun, Yoon's lawyer, was quoted by multiple media outlets as saying that concerns remained about safety and mishaps as the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and National Office of Investigation (NOI) continued their attempt to execute a warrant to arrest the impeached president. (South Korea-Impeachment-Trial)

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called for international cooperation in creating scalable and sustainable opportunities for ensuring education to women, saying women participation in the workforce would create immense prospects for social and economic prosperity.

"Educated women have the potential to not just lift themselves, their families and the nation out of the poverty, but also to enrich the global economy, new markets and find innovative solutions to their shared challenges," Sharif said while addressing a conference titled "Girls' Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities." (Pakistan-Women Empowerment-Education)

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SEOUL -- South Korea's nuclear safety agency has launched an investigation into the abnormal discharge of liquid radioactive waste from a nuclear reactor to the southeast of the country, Yonhap news agency said Sunday.

The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) received a report from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), the operator of nuclear power plants, at about 10:23 a.m. local time (0123 GMT) Sunday that the liquid waste of a radioactive storage tank in the Wolseong No. 2 nuclear power plant in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province was discharged into the ocean without going through a sample analysis.(SKorea-Radioactive Waste) Enditem

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