1.On September 1, the Korean Land Research Institute released a report saying that the rise in house prices in Gangnam in Seoul was largely due to media reports. This is the general conclusion of the internal study of “Housing transaction Price changes from the Perspective of Behavioral Economics” conducted by the Research Institute, which holds that media reports have an impact on people’s psychology of buying and selling houses.

2.The fossilized skeleton of a 66 million-year-old giant Triceratops will be auctioned at the Druo auction house in Paris in October, CNN reported. The fossil is the largest Triceratops specimen ever found in the world and is expected to fetch between 1.2 million euros and 1.5 million euros, according to the auction house.

3.Nigeria recreates the kidnapping of students. On September 1, local time, 73 students were kidnapped by unidentified militants when a middle school was attacked in Zamfara state in northwestern Nigeria. The governments of the four states of the country have issued a number of emergency measures to prevent similar violent crimes.

4.Takashi Kawamura, mayor of Nagoya, who had been criticized for chewing gold medals, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Sept. 1. On August 29, the special secretary to the mayor of Nagoya diagnosed COVID-19. Nagoya said at that time that Kawamura was not his close contact, and that he had been quarantined at home and subjected to nucleic acid testing since the same day.

5.On September 1, local time, the Afghan Taliban held a victory parade in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, where Atta displayed dozens of American-made armored vehicles and newly seized weapons. Taliban soldiers stood on moving Humvees and armored vehicles, waving white Taliban flags, many of them almost intact. The Taliban also organized an air display in which a recently captured Black Hawk helicopter flew over Kandahar, dragging a white Taliban flag behind it.

6.Since March 1 this year, the United States has wasted at least 15.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, far more than previously counted, and may actually be more, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 1.

7.On September 1st, Taliban spokesman Zabiura Mujahed said that Afghanistan wants to establish a true Islamic government. At present, the Taliban have deployed security forces and technicians at the airport to repair airport facilities, and are working to restore order and work in the areas of security, the rule of law, health care and banking in Afghanistan.

8.On September 1, local time, Japan’s annual dolphin hunt kicked off in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, where 12 fishing boats set off before dawn. The Taiji fishing Association said that about 10 bottlenose dolphins, about 2.7 meters long, were caught that day and planned to be sold to the aquarium. Dolphin hunting in Taiji, which will last for half a year until the spring of 2022, is controversial because of allegations of cruelty.

9.On August 31, local time, the Japanese government held a meeting on nuclear disaster response and formally decided to promote the reopening of parts of the Fukushima restricted zone by 2030, with plans to allow people to live from 2022 to 2023. It is reported that the Fukushima nuclear restricted area is about 337 square kilometers, of which 27 square kilometers are “specific regeneration areas.”

10.On August 30, at least 20 people were killed and more than 50 were missing when a motorboat collided with a barge in the waters of the Varaga River near the town of Yurimaguas in the upper Amazon province in the Loreto region of northeastern Peru. At present, the Peruvian navy and local people are still carrying out search and rescue and body search work.

11.South Korea’s parliament has approved a bill that makes South Korea the first country to impose restrictions on Google and Apple’s payment policies. According to South Korean media reports, the law allows software developers to guide users to pay through other platforms and avoid paying shares to major app store operators such as Google and Apple. The law also gives the South Korean government the right to mediate disputes over payment, withdrawal and refund in the application market. Before the bill was enacted, the tech giants Apple and Google required software developers to use their proprietary billing systems only to collect money and pay up to 30% of the share to the tech giants.

12. In response to the possibility of a substantial increase in Japan’s defense budget for fiscal year 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: due to historical reasons, Japan’s military security trends have been concerned by Asian neighbors and the international community. Japan has increased its defense budget for nine years in a row, and Japan is always complaining about its neighboring countries in order to find an excuse for its military expansion. “China advises the Japanese side to adhere to the path of peaceful development, be cautious in its words and deeds in the field of military security, and do more things conducive to maintaining regional peace and stability, rather than the other way around.”

13. RIA Novosti quoted sources as saying that the Taliban will announce the formation of a new government on September 3, and it is not clear how the new government will be formed.