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LDP builds momentum heading into Japan’s upper house race

June 29, 2025

Japan builds ties with Taiwan’s last few diplomatic allies

June 10, 2025

Taiwan looks to U.S. for military support as it builds up defenses against China

Taiwan looks to U.S. for milit support as it builds up defenses against China

May 30, 2025

Japan builds world’s first 3D-printed train station

March 29, 2025

Hun Manet orders crackdown on Cambodian scam centers
PHNOM PENH — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a sweeping crackdown on scam compounds across the country in what campaigners against the criminal activity fear is likely to be a performative exercise. Cambodia is among the nations at the epicenter of global scam operations, where foreign workers are trafficked or lured into the…
Petrol prices hike by Rs5 per litre
Islamabad: The government has announced a significant increase in the prices of petroleum products, with both high-speed diesel and petrol prices being raised. According to the notification of Finance Division, petrol prices have been increased by 5.36 rupees per litre, with the new rate set at 272.15 rupees per litre. Similarly the price of high-speed…
China jails Japan’s Astellas Pharma employee for 3.5 years for spying
TOKYO — A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma was convicted of espionage on Wednesday and sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Chinese court, in a judgment likely to further strain already tense bilateral ties. The court in Beijing said the unnamed man was indicted on espionage charges, according to the Japanese…
Adelita Grijalva wins Democratic prim to succeed her late father in Arizona House district
Arizona Democrats have nominated Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, to fill his former seat in a September special election, The Associated Press projects. Grijalva, a former member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, won Tuesday’s special Democratic prim ahead of Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old activist, and former state Rep. Daniel…
China’s food delivery wars taking a bite out of Alibaba’s, others’ profits
HONG KONG — China’s food delivery war rages on as the three big platforms, Alibaba Group, Meituan and JD.com, vie to become the ultimate gateway for consumer spending in Asia’s largest economy. The battle ignited by JD heated up further over the weekend, with platforms announcing that both orders and users had reached record highs…
Bangladesh’s revolutionaries await real change 1 year on
DHAKA — One year since a landmark moment in the revolution in Bangladesh that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the protestors that drove the movement have seen little progress on the reforms that brought them out onto the streets. Political parties remain at loggerheads over how to proceed on contentious issues like constitutional reform…
Trump says Indonesia ‘reciprocal’ tariff to be cut to 19% in trade deal
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had agreed to a trade deal with his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, that would see the “reciprocal” tariff rate on Southeast Asia’s largest economy drop from the previously threatened 32% to 19%. In return, Indonesia committed to buying $15 billion worth of U.S. energy,…
Japan bond yields jump on fiscal fears ahead of upper house vote
TOKYO — Japanese government bond yields jumped this week, as investors fret over the country’s fiscal health and a looming upper house election that threatens to shift power away from the ruling coalition. Yields on benchmark 10-year Japanese government bonds (JGBs) rose to 1.595% on Tuesday, their highest level in about 17 years. 20-year JGB…
Video: Japan’s upper house vote is a crucial test for Ishiba’s coalition
TOKYO — Japan will hold an upper house election on Sunday — a major test for the coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, which is at risk of losing its majority in the chamber as it did in the lower house last October. In this video we speak with Rintaro Nishimura, an associate in The…