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History-making bronze for Thailand
News, Published on 12/02/2025
» Paul Henri Vieuxtemps made history after winning Thailand's first-ever medal at the Asian Winter Games, securing a bronze medal in the men's freeski slopestyle event in Harbin, China, on Tuesday.
Hybrids still greener, Japan seminar told
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 29/07/2024
» TOKYO: Japan believes hybrid vehicles can provide another route for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to achieve its sustainable development goals.
India's G20 presidency cast doubt on bloc
News, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 25/09/2023
» Following the latest G20 summit, held in New Delhi earlier this month, there is no longer any doubt about India's central position in global power politics. But questions about the G20 itself are gaining traction.
What did the Hiroshima G7 summit accomplish?
News, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 25/05/2023
» Geopolitics dominated the just-concluded G7 summit in Hiroshima, where the most prominent participant was not a G7 leader, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Japan is facing a fiscal dilemma
News, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 06/02/2023
» Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently unveiled an ambitious plan to double the country's defence budget to ¥43 trillion, roughly 2% of Japan's GDP, over the next five years. Notably, the country's massive rearmament programme, its biggest since the end of World War II, has not triggered a political or public backlash. With Japan facing multiple security threats, including North Korean missile tests, Chinese coast-guard ships encroaching on its territorial waters and Russia's militarisation of the disputed Kuril Islands (known in Japan as the Northern Territories), polls show public support for the proposed increase.
Deterring China requires boost in defence capacity
News, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 01/09/2022
» Following US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China fired missiles into six areas surrounding Taiwan and sent fighter jets across the midline of the Taiwan Strait. Some of those missiles landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), threatening fishing boats from the island of Yonaguni, just 110 kilometres from Taiwan.
PPRP mulls giant air cleaning tower
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/06/2019
» The Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) is toying with the idea of building an "Air Purification Tower", modelled on a similar project in the northern part of China, to solve urban air pollution.
Who you gonna call?
News, Published on 29/12/2018
» Re: "Who trusts the NACC?", (Editorial, Dec 27).