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Kyodo News, Published on 30/05/2023
» BYD Co, China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, has begun to penetrate the Southeast Asian market to challenge the stronghold held by Japanese automakers in the region.
Kyodo News, Published on 07/06/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has joined Vietnam in rapping Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's recent remarks on the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the genocidal Khmer Rouge, alleging that Singapore bears some responsibility for the massacre of Cambodians in the late 1970s.
Kyodo News, Published on 24/05/2019
» TOKYO: Japanese police on Friday arrested 15 suspects transported from Bangkok in connection with a large-scale phone scam, to which hundreds of people are believed to have fallen victim.
Kyodo News, Published on 16/04/2019
» TOKYO: Japanese police dispatched investigators to Thailand on Tuesday over a phone scam in which more than 200 people in Japan are believed to have been swindled out of some 200 million yen (about 57 million baht).
Kyodo News, Published on 01/04/2019
» Japan launched on Monday a new visa system to bring in more foreign workers to the country struggling with an acute labour shortage, marking a major policy shift from its traditionally strict immigration rules.
Kyodo News, Published on 29/03/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that Turkey has agreed to lease a powership to help his country address its chronic electricity shortages.
Kyodo News, Published on 20/03/2019
» Thais are keenly awaiting the first general election in eight years on Sunday, with many of them expressing hope that a post-junta government will somehow bridge the nation's political divide that has existed for years.
Kyodo News, Published on 27/02/2019
» TOKYO: The Japanese government endorsed at a cabinet meeting Tuesday a plan for a revised free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that includes the liberalisation of the service sector and investment field.
Kyodo News, Published on 09/01/2019
» Foreign ministers from 10 Southeast Asian Nations will call for a "comprehensive and durable" solution to the when they meet informally for their annual retreat in Chiang Mai later this month, according to a draft of a statement to be issued then.
Kyodo News, Published on 26/12/2018
» JAKARTA: Better, more sophisticated disaster mitigation is urgently needed in Indonesia as around 150 million of its 245 million people live in areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, while its early warning system does not work well sometimes because equipment gets stolen, vandalized or broken due to poor maintenance, a government official said Wednesday.