Indian Migrants in Tokyo
Migration from India to Japan has been growing strongly over recent decades. It provides an interesting case study of how a traditionally-closed society, Japan, opens up to the outside world. It also provides great...
Category: Asia
Biden imposes first sanctions over N. Korea weapons program after missile tests
The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed its first sanctions over North Korea’s weapons programs following a series of North Korean missile launches, including two since last week. The sanctions targeted six North Koreans, one...
‘Colonial wine from new, authoritarian bottles’: Hong Kong re-tools sedition law
The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom. Evidence of the renewed reliance on...
Sri Lanka – Deep financial crisis and a divided polity
Amidst a severe economic crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka also appears to be experiencing ethno-religious animosity. International ratings agencies have warned that Gothabaya Rajapaksa’s government could be on the brink of default....
India Latin America cooperation in the wake of the pandemic era: a resilient paradigm
Healthcare solutions Much has been said about China’s involvement in the Latin American region, in the form of infrastructure and also as providers of vaccine and healthcare solutions during times of COVID 19. However,...
As costs soar, some Japanese companies do the unthinkable: raise prices
Premium telescopes, violin bows and speciality paper are bucking a deflationary trend that has defined Japan for decades – all have had their prices hiked by companies confident they can charge more without losing business. Years of stagnant prices and...
China meeting Gulf, Iran, Turkey foreign ministers in quick order
Foreign ministers from the Gulf, Iran and Turkey were separately heading to China this week for talks, China’s foreign ministry said, while discussions were under way in Vienna on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Foreign...
North Korea says Kim Jong Un oversaw hypersonic missile test
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, the second such launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week. The missile...
N.Korea launches ‘more advanced’ missile less than week after hypersonic test
North Korea appeared to test fire a ballistic missile on Tuesday that may be more capable than the “hypersonic missile” it launched less than a week earlier, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang pursues...
Russian-led troops to start leaving Kazakhstan in 2 days -president
A Russian-led military bloc will begin withdrawing its troops from Kazakhstan in two days’ time after fulfilling its main mission of stabilising the Central Asian country after serious unrest, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said...
