AsiaWorld The ‘2024 Problem’: Japan Grapples With a Shortage of Truck Drivers by 12/23/2023 by 12/23/2023 It was dark when Daiki Funamizu pulled his truck into the market in Osaka, ending… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon by 12/22/2023 by 12/22/2023 Often seen as disease-carrying nuisances, pigeons have an image problem around the world. Japan is… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Japan Relaxes Weapons Export Policy To Sell Patriot Missiles To U.S. by 12/22/2023 by 12/22/2023 Japan will allow the sale of advanced air defense systems to the United States to… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld North Korea’s New Reactor Increases Ability to Produce Plutonium by 12/22/2023 by 12/22/2023 In what would be a fresh breach of United Nations sanctions, a new reactor in… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Breaking With Postwar History, Japan to Sell Patriot Missiles to U.S. by 12/21/2023 by 12/21/2023 Japan is set to announce that it will approve the sale of advanced air defense… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld In India’s embattled news media, women are fighting to be heard by 12/20/2023 by 12/20/2023 Not many outsiders come to Belarhi, a remote agricultural village in northern India. Yet during… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Wednesday Briefing: The Aftermath of China’s Quake by 12/19/2023 by 12/19/2023 China quake survivors face subzero temperatures The 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northwest China overnight on… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld In Myanmar, Accounts of Disappearances Create a Climate of Fear by 12/19/2023 by 12/19/2023 At least 16 young men disappeared last month. In four cities across Myanmar, under cover… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Tuesday Briefing: BP Paused Red Sea Oil Shipments by 12/18/2023 by 12/18/2023 BP paused Red Sea oil shipments Global oil prices jumped yesterday after the energy giant… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AsiaWorld Family Split at LG, a South Korean Giant, Tests Corporate Succession by 12/18/2023 by 12/18/2023 When Koo Bon-moo, chairman of South Korean conglomerate LG, died in 2018, there wasn’t much… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail