This child psychiatrist dedicated her life to autism and mental health research because of her special needs son

Dr. Sung Min became frightened when her child refused to pay her attention and was unable to engage in play with other children his years. Seeing her son miss milestones, Dr Sung, a senior consultant at the Department of Developmental Psychiatry at Singapore’s Institute of Mental Health ( IMH), panicked.

The baby physician was relieved and grieved when he was finally diagnosed with autism. The gaps in understanding the problem even created confusion and excessive stress on her as a parent.

A neurological and developmental disorder known as autism or autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) is present in all people. It affects how a person engages with another, in terms of how talk, learn, and react in different contexts and environments.

Through her own encounter with her brother, Dr Sung, with a team of three, established dementia service at IMH in 2006.

The 56-year-old has since participated in a number of studies initiatives, including one on supporting people with ASD in clinical adjustments during the pandemic in 2020, and one on the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on anxiety in children with ASD in 2011. &nbsp,

FEELING AUTISM IN THE First DAYS

What’s bad with my infant, most parents of children with autism say at first? and upon treatment,” I wish I knew this treatment before”.

Dr. Sung remarked,” I went through the pain method of coping with the approval of a baby with particular needs.”

She acknowledged that the treatment was difficult, and that it took her years to accept the treatment of her son. I had exaggerated anticipations of him in his younger years, which made it difficult for him to cope with and lead to difficult behavior.

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Bangladesh girls forced to cancel football amid Islamist threats

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Anbarasan Ethirajan

BBC News

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Asha Roy, 17, was excited to take part in a children’s sports game, but her hopes were dashed as Islamism forced the organisers to withdraw the suit in northeastern Bangladesh.

The Islami Andolan Bangladesh party announced a protest march against the occurrence in the Rangpur region earlier this month, calling it un-Islamic.

Local authorities intervened in a frightful situation, and the women’s crew members were asked to go home for protection.

” I was upset and disturbed. We had never before encountered quite a circumstance. The lack of playfulness of our return disappointed me, Ms. Roy claimed to the BBC.

Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation, is currently undergoing a political transition after widespread protests ousted its authoritarian government last year.

There are worries that Islamist groups, which had been marginalized, have once again been enraged by an interval management in place.

The women’s basketball game was the fourth to be postponed in northeastern Bangladesh in less than two weeks due to the concerns of religious extremists.

In the Dinajpur area, roughly 70km ( 43 miles ) west of Rangpur, Islamists protesting against a game clashed with locals who supported it, leaving four people injured.

Sports and other activities are a source of female empowerment and a way out of poverty for ladies like Asha Roy, who are from rural areas. Those who excel are eligible to play for sponsored teams, and some even go on to signify Bangladesh worldwide.

The success of the national children’s staff, who are regarded as soldiers after winning two consecutive South Asia football tournaments in recent years, has given some girls an inspiration to pursue sport.

Ms Roy’s colleague, Musammat Tara Moni, said she would not quit playing despite the risks.

” It’s my wish to represent our national team. My family supports me, so I am never losing hope”, the 16-year-old said.

For their manager Nurul Islam, the concerns came as a surprise. For the first time in his words,” I have taken the team to several games over the past seven decades.”

Tomal Rahman A team of young women in sports gear pose behind a runner-up poster and a gold cupTomal Rahman

The Islamists claim that the suit they halted was against their religious principles and that they are determined to avoid any more basketball games.

” If ladies want to play sport, they should protect their entire body, and they can play just in front of female fans. Guys can’t watch them play, according to Maulana Ashraf Ali, the Islami Andolan Bangladesh president in Rangpur’s Taraganj.

Mr Ali even insisted that the team “definitely” like hard-line Islamic Sharia law in Bangladesh.

The women’s soccer games were suspended due to a flurry of activity on social media, which led the government to reorganize one of them. They have even launched an investigation into the situations, but they claim that the fear of militancy is exaggerated.

According to Shafiqul Alam, hit secretary to interim head Muhammad Yunus,” there is no truth to the claims that the government is pandering to Islamism.”

Mr. Alam made the point that lots of women’s sports competitions were held without incident as part of a national adolescent event in January.

Some individuals are no reassured. The withdrawal of the women’s soccer games was “definitely alarming,” according to Samina Luthfa, associate professor of sociology at the University of Dhaka.

She said,” The people of Bangladesh does not stop playing sports, going to work, or doing their things,” and that “everyone will fight” efforts to remove people from public places.

Sohel Rana In Dinajpur, men, some holding sticks, throw objects at another group in the distanceSohel Rana

Concerned individuals have also expressed concern about the interval government’s decisions regarding Islamist extremism since it came into power in August.

They include revoking a moratorium on the country’s largest Islamist group, Jamaat-e-Islami, which was introduced in the last weeks of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s state.

Jashimuddin Rahmani, the leader of the banned Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangladesh ( ABT), also known as Ansar al Islam, was released in August after receiving bail from a court. He was given a five-year prison sentence in connection with the 2013 murder of a liberal blogger, but he had been kept behind cafes because of other pending situations.

According to local media reports, several other people accused of having links with extremist groups have also been given bail in the past few months.

According to Dr. Tawohidul Haque, a murder researcher from the University of Dhaka,” Though security causes say they will observe those released, it will be hard for them to place everyone under monitoring given the limitations.”

Muslim extremism is not a new phenomenon in Bangladesh, where most people practice reasonable Islam and liberal values predominate. A decade ago, religious fanatics targeted liberal blogs, skeptics, minorities, foreigners and others in a deluge of attacks- dying dozens and sending others fleeing worldwide.

In one like affair, a group of Islamist militants stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka in 2016, killing 20 people.

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Not only women’s football games have been the subject of recent attention, either. Dhaka’s renowned Ekushey Book Fair saw the destruction of a book barn last week by dozens of Islamist students.

The protesters were furious that Taslima Nasrin, a female writer in exile, had displayed a book. In response, Islamist organizations have in the past threatened to kill her.

Muhammad Yunus criticized the affair, claiming that it” shows contempt for both the laws of our country and the rights of Bangladeshis.” The police are investigating.

However, Pori Moni, one of the country’s most well-known celebrities, claims that she was prevented from opening a department store in Tangail after receiving rebuffed requests from religious organizations.

” Now I’m really feeling vulnerable, as well as fragile. I’m required to participate in the beginning of a store or other similar occasion. No one has stopped me all these times”, Ms Moni told the BBC Bengali services.

Similar activities involving two other stars, Apu Biswas and Mehazabien Chowdhury, have also been cancelled following challenges by Islamism.

Majority organizations like the Mystical Muslims claim that there are also more problems on their places of worship. Islamist radicals view Sufism as catholic.

” About a hundred of our shrines]mazars ] and areas have been attacked in the past six times”, Anisur Rahman Jafri, Secretary General of the Sufism Universal Foundation, told the BBC.

” We have not seen this kind of sudden extremist attack on us since the country’s independence in 1971″, he added, warning that the country was at risk of” Talibanisation” if the situation continued.

Only 40 temples were damaged, according to authorities, and there was increased protection around spiritual sites.

The authorities have also been struggling to maintain law and order in the wake of Sheikh Hasina’s departure. Earlier this month, thousands of protesters vandalised homes and buildings connected to Hasina and senior leaders of her Awami League party.

People from various parties and events, including Islamists, joined in various demonstrations in the capital, Dhaka, and across the nation.

The security forces have been defended by the authorities for no intermediate, claiming that doing so would have resulted in fatalities.

Right organizations have voiced their concerns about the security scenario.

” If the authorities fails to work, then Islamists are going to feel emboldened. There will be more self-censorship for women and girls, they will be more frightened participating in public events”, Shireen Huq, a popular children’s rights advocate, told the BBC.

” I am still positive that this phenomenon will no sustain”, she added.

Further monitoring from the Bangladeshi-language BBC Bengali program

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India AI: As DeepSeek and ChatGPT surge, is Delhi falling behind?

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Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News
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China’s DeepSeek has caused ripples through the technology sector by collapsing the price for developing relational artificial intelligence uses two years after ChatGPT took the world by surprise.

However, as the global battle for AI power gains momentum, India appears to have fallen behind, especially when it comes to developing its own basic language model for things like chatbots.

A homemade version of DeepSeek, according to the state, is not far away. It provides companies, institutions, and researchers with the thousands of premium chips required to create it in less than ten months.

Recently, a burst of international AI leaders have been promoting India’s features.

After initially being unfavorable, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this month stated that India may be playing a significant part in the AI trend. The state is then OpenAI’s next largest industry by consumers.

Others like Microsoft have put serious money on the table – committing$ 3bn ( £2.4bn ) for cloud and AI infrastructure. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang also spoke of India’s “unmatched” professional expertise as a key to unlocking its future possible.

There is enough entrepreneurial activity in the pipeline with 200 companies working on conceptual AI.

Without fundamental structural adjustments to education, research, and state coverage, India risks falling behind, according to authorities, despite having the necessary ingredients for success.

According to tech researcher Prasanto Roy, China and the US now have a “four to five time head start,” having heavily invested in research and education and developed AI for use in military applications, law police, and significant language models.

India is still far behind the two nations in some important areas, despite being in the top five globally on Stanford’s Artificial Vibrancy Index, which ranks nations based on metrics like patents, money, plan, and analysis.

China and the US were granted 60 % and 20 % of the world’s total AI patents between 2010 and 2022 respectively. India got less than half a cent.

Additionally, India’s AI companies received a small portion of the secret funding that US and Chinese firms received in 2023.

India’s state-funded AI vision, nevertheless, is worth a inconsequential$ 1bn compared with the astounding$ 500bn the US has earmarked for Stargate- a plan to build enormous AI system in the US- or China’s reported$ 137bn effort to become an AI hub by 2030.

Getty Images The image shows Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, on the podium speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025. There's also a big screen live streaming his speech right behind the stage where he is standing. Getty Images

While DeepSeek’s victory has demonstrated that Artificial models can be built on older, less costly chips- something India you get relief from- lack of “patient” or long-term capital from either industry or government is a major problem, says Jaspreet Bindra, founder of a consultancy that builds AI literacy in organisations.

” Despite what has been said, there was much more capital behind it than what was known about DeepSeek developing a model with$ 5.6 million,” the source said.

Lack of high-quality India-specific datasets required for training AI models in regional languages such as Hindi, Marathi or Tamil is another problem, especially given India’s language diversity.

But for all its issues, India punches far above its weight on talent – with 15 % of the world’s AI workers coming from the country.

The issue though, as Stanford’s AI talent migration research shows, is that more and more of them are choosing to leave the country.

According to Mr. Bindra, “foundational AI innovations typically come from deep R&D in universities and corporate research labs.”

And India lacks a supporting research environment, with few deep-tech breakthroughs emerging from its academic and corporate sectors.

The enormous success of India’s payments revolution was due to strong government-industry-academia collaboration- a similar model, he says, needs to be replicated for the AI push.

Millions of people can now transact digitally in India using the unified payment interface ( UPI), a government-developed digital payment system, with the click of a button or QR code.

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Bengaluru’s$ 200bn outsourcing industry, home to millions of coders, should have ideally been at the forefront of India’s AI ambitions. However, IT companies have never really switched from developing basic consumer AI technologies to developing cheap service-based work.

” It’s a huge gap which they left to the startups to fill”, says Mr Roy.

He’s not sure whether startups and government missions can finish this work quickly enough, adding that the minster’s 10-month schedule was a knee-jerk reaction to DeepSeek’s unanticipated rise.

For the next few years at least, he continues,” I don’t believe India will be able to produce anything like DeepSeek.” It is a viewpoint that many people also hold.

India can, however, continue to build and tweak applications upon existing open source platforms like DeepSeek” to leapfrog our own AI progress”, Bhavish Agarwal, founder of one of India’s earliest AI startups Krutrim, recently wrote on X.

However, according to experts, developing a foundational model will be necessary in the long run to achieve strategic autonomy in the sector and lessen import dependencies and threats of sanctions.

India will also need to develop its hardware and computational resources to run these models, which would require the production of semiconductors, something that hasn’t yet begun.

Before the US and China’s differences are significant, much of this will need to be put in place.

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Snap Insight: Why Budget 2025 is making it more affordable to have larger families

OTHERWISE, INCENTIVIVING BIRTHS

More assistance for larger families also aids in reducing the amount of resources that are available in the house when more children are born, leading to a more equal distribution of resources. It brings Singapore closer to the best in which all children, regardless of home background, can grow and succeed.

Therefore, it is crucial that the Big Family LifeSG credits be available for both existing huge families with at least one child under the age of six and not just for families with newborns. It’s a step in the right direction because it shows that the fresh scheme is more about supporting babies than just the bottom line.

Instead, it is an example of a broad-based and multi-goal treatment in line with the nationwide” Made for Families 2025″ plan, which not only promotes parents ‘ access to flexible work arrangements, provides more parental resources and enables greater paternal involvement, but likewise extends more aid to groups who have more needs, including lower-income families, families with disabled users, and single-parent and divorced families.

By demonstrating that a favorable pregnancy culture includes social security, where people with higher requirements are supported, and where everyone’s well-being is valued, a broad-based strategy can better handle the depth and scope of issues underlying reduced fertility.

Tan Poh Lin works for the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy as a Senior Research Fellow.

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‘Feel good’ Budget 2025 tackles cost of living and sweetens ground for General Election, say analysts

” This Budget seems to be more generous and more inclusive, especially in the quantum of top-ups, vouchers and rebates that are being given”, said Dr Teo Kay Key, a research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s ( NUS) Institute of Policy Studies ( IPS).

” The SG60 deal is also more good compared to SG50, which coincided with GE2015″.

Yet, the election is not the only factor for this year’s rich Budget. The state is attempting to address the rising cost of living, according to the majority of experts.

Dr Mustafa Izzuddin, a top international affairs scientist at Solaris Strategies Singapore, said that the Budget is “incredibly good” according to three factors coinciding this time: Worry about prices, the SG60 anniversary and a General Election.

Dr. Teo claimed that the Prime Minister even appeared to be focusing on making sure the Budget is inclusive for all Singaporeans and demonstrating his commitment to “moving forward into the future without leaving any group or individual behind”

The various techniques indicate his intent to present that “regardless of history, skill, or personal background, Singaporeans have a chance to create a potential in this nation”, she said.

Rules professor Eugene Tan, from the Singapore Management University, said Budget 2025 addresses the cultural” as well as the financial” dimensions, seeking to stabilize dealing with urgent concerns such as the costs of living, and making positive Singapore lays the groundwork to deal with future challenges.

” In one word, bifocal, is how I would describe the Budget in this regard. Additionally, it makes an effort to accommodate the needs, fears, and aspirations of various generations while also ensuring an equal distribution of the country’s wealth between public and private housing, according to Prof. Tan.

Dr Mustafa added: &nbsp,” Truly, I think the Budget will soften the earth. It’s meant to create a feel-good issue. And whenever the poll is called, the hope is that this will continue throughout the campaign.

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Snap Insight: How to view Budget 2025 – it’s not about goodies and freebies

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

In any federal funds, the immediate impulse for individuals is often the problem – “what’s in it for me or my company”?

Consider the SkillsFuture financing program.

Most people find it to be a largely free way to learn new knowledge. With additional insight and apps, some may believe that work will be guaranteed, with companies beating a path to their doorways.

However, it’s really the real employment that issues. Job seekers must also work to promote themselves and stable employment.

In a rapidly changing world where the scenery shifts more in line with international developments than the narrower job-specific local environment, companies must also be aware that great job games are unique.

But even with all the political incentives, it’s never a skills-for-free sauce truck. For the hard pairing of jobs with skills, the softer behavioral factor is frequently more important for both employers and employees.

Also, let’s look at the range of specific tickets and rebates.

These are unique advantages that should be seen as the distinguishable benefit over the general law. People can’t anticipate them to be a continuous device. Businesses that take advantage of such techniques can’t believe that their sales will stay that way long.

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SCDF to begin hiring foreigners for emergency medical services roles

SINGAPORE: &nbsp, The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Monday ( Feb 18 ) that it will begin hiring foreigners to complement its emergency medical services ( EMS ) workforce from March 2025. &nbsp,

The move comes after a surge in demand for emergency medical services over the past century, with&nbsp, need expected to increase further in part due to Singapore’s ageing population, SCDF said in a media brochure.

Singaporeans and permanent residents make up the SCDF’s present EMS workforce.

In 2024, SCDF responded to 245, 279 emergency health services calls&nbsp, – the comparative of&nbsp, about 672 calls everyday. This is a 57 % increase over the phone level handled in 2014.

Nearly half of all EMS calling are from individuals aged 65 and over, SCDF said.

Beyond 2025, the number of health names is anticipated to increase in line with the population’s age. In order to meet the growing demand, SCDF will need to keep investing in its hospital ship, it said.

According to the statement, SCDF will start hiring foreigners as part of its ongoing efforts to complement the native EMS workforce because it is already experiencing a shortage of native workers for the positions of paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

” This strategy is in line with the tactics employed by the entire medical industry.”

Minister of State for Home Affairs Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim stated at a HomeTeamNS Khatib event on Tuesday that SCDF would first look to hire new EMS employees from different Southeast Asian nations.

If required, it will then appear beyond the area to increase its selection pool.

Singaporeans will continue to form the vast majority of SCDF’s workplace, and all international workers will “undergo demanding instruction” to ensure that they are “accredited to SCDF’s requirements”, it said.

According to the statement,” We will make sure that the foreign workers provide a level of service and expertise in accordance with SCDF’s EMS techniques.”

SCDF laid out the different strategies it has used to increase the need for emergency health services as it became more and more popular.

In addition, the company increased its EMS ship by hiring personal emergency operators in 2009, introduced a tiered-response model to assess its responses to medical cases based on their seriousness in 2017, and put in place of an a&nbsp, non-dispatch plan, which requires that it only dispatch an ambulance when its 995 operations center determines a situation to be an actual emergency in 2023.

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DeepSeek ‘shared user data’ with TikTok owner ByteDance

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has been accused of sharing customer data with TikTok’s Chinese owner.

“We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance,” the South Korean data protection regulator told Yonhap News Agency.

The country had already removed DeepSeek from app stores over the weekend over data protection concerns.

The Chinese app caused shockwaves in the AI world in January, wiping billions off global stock markets over claims its new model was trained at a much lower cost than US rivals such as ChatGPT.

Since then, multiple countries have warned that user data may not be properly protected, and in February a US cybersecurity company alleged potential data sharing between DeepSeek and ByteDance.

DeepSeek’s visible overnight success led to its ascendancy in the UK, US, and many other countries around the world, but it now ranks far below ChatGPT in the UK positions.

It had been downloaded more than a million days in South Korea before being pulled from Apple and Google’s App Stores on Saturday night.

Existing users can still use the software through a web browser and entry it.

The Personal Information Protection Commission, a body overseeing information transfers, stated to South Korean newspaper Yonhap News Agency that it was still” confirming what information was transferred and how much” despite the existence of a connection between DeepSeek and ByteDance.

Critics of the Chinese state have long argued its National Intelligence Law allows the government to access any data it wants from Chinese companies.

However, ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, is owned by a number of global investors – and others say the same law allows for the protection of private companies and personal data.

One of the arguments that the US Supreme Court upheld was that ByteDance’s subsidiary, TikTok, was concerned about customer information being sent to China.

The US ban is on hold until 5 April as President Donald Trump attempts to broker a resolution.

Cybersecurity company Security Scorecard published a blog on DeepSeek on 10 February which suggested “multiple direct references to ByteDance-owned” services.

” These recommendations suggest strong integration with ByteDance’s analysis and performance tracking infrastructure”, it said in its assessment of DeepSeek’s Android software.

Security Scorecard expressed concern that along with privacy risks, DeepSeek “user behaviour and device metadata]are ] likely sent to ByteDance servers”.

Additionally, it discovered that information was “being transmitted to regions connected to Chinese state-owned companies.”

On Monday, South Korea’s PIPC said it “found out traffic generated by third-party data transfers and insufficient transparency in DeepSeek’s privacy policy”.

It acknowledged that DeepSeek had broken North Korean privacy regulations and that it was cooperating with the controller.

However, the regulation advised users to “exercise caution and avoiding personal info entering into the chatbot.”

South Korea has previously acted to outlaw DeepSeek from government products, joining Australia and Taiwan in this regard.

The BBC has contacted the PIPC, ByteDance and DeepSeek’s family business, High Flyer, for a reply.

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Japan raises nuclear power goal in major shift after Fukushima

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Shaimaa Khalil

Tokyo editor

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In a major policy change, Japan declares that it will improve its emphasis on nuclear power as it tries to satisfy growing demand from power-hungry industries like AI and electronics.

The cabinet’s power program on Tuesday included a recommendation to “maximize the use of atomic energy” and omitted the suggestion that “reducing reliance on nuclear energy.”

The energy plan, written by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry says that by 2040, nuclear energy should account for 20% of Japan’s grid supply in 2040, more than double the 8.5% share in 2023.

It comes as the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster from 14 years ago continues to hang over the country, conjuring painful memories.

In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake near Japan’s north-east coast spawned a tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people, wiping out entire towns and flooding the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Japan now operates 14 commercial atomic reactor, compared to 54 before the Fukushima disaster when 30 % of the country’s power was from nuclear options.

The program also needs acceptance by congress, where it will be discussed in the coming weeks.

According to Daishiro Yamagiwa, an MP who was a member of the government advisory committee on the power plan, the nation, which imports 90 % of its energy, needs to turn to nuclear options as part of its effort to reduce carbon emissions and become self-sufficient.

EPA Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against the release of treated radioactive wastewater by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea near the TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 20 July 2023.EPA

Also fossil fuels have become increasingly difficult to purchase because of the conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East conflict, he told the BBC. Because Japan lacks power resources, we must use what is readily available in a healthy manner.

Yamagiwa added that the demand for semiconductor factories and AI files control centers is increasing.

However, according to experts, increasing emphasis on nuclear power will be both costly and risky.

According to Professor Kenichi Oshima, a professor at the university of policy technology at Ryukoku University, Japan will need to buy uranium, which is expensive and will make the nation dependent on different nations.

The main problem, according to Prof. Kenichi, is that the number of nuclear power plants ‘ growth also raises the possibility of tragic accidents.

He cited the Noto island earthquake of 2024 as an example of how citizens opposed a plan to build a nuclear power plant two decades ago.

” If there had been a nuclear power plant it, it is quite obvious that it would have caused a major accident”, he said.

Fukushima looms big

Any mention of nuclear power in Japan always brings back unpleasant memories of the Daiichi power plant nuclear panic.

Tokyo citizen Yuko Maruyama told the BBC,” We all had such a bad experience at the time of the Fukushima quake.”

How was I back the nuclear power program? I want the government to concentrate on different sources of energy”, she added.

” As a mother I think of the youngsters, of their health. What did happen in the future is beyond my control.

Fukushima’s panic is regarded as the worst in the world since Chernobyl in 1986.

When Japan began releasing treated liquid from the Fukushima plant page in 2023, it sparked new discussion. This drew rallies from Japan’s neighborhood, including China, over safety concerns.

The IAEA, the body’s regulation for nuclear power, claimed that the waste liquid was safe and would have a “negligible” impact on both people and the environment.

Greenpeace responded to the new energy strategy released this week by calling it “outrageous” to promote nuclear power given that Fukushima’s aftermath is still being investigated.

” There is no explanation for continuing to rely on nuclear power, which remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years, produces nuclear waste that requires long-term control, and carries risks like tremors and terrorism”, the team said.

To match the government’s purpose, experts say 33 reactors may be put up online, but the current rate of security checks as well as residents ‘ objections in some areas may make this difficult.

Many of these nuclear power plants are outdated and require modernization in order to operate securely.

Each atomic power plant is located in a unique place and will require its own security process and infrastructure, according to Yamagiwa.

” We has examine each of them properly. It also takes day”.

In recent months, authorities have given some old reactors authorization to keep operating.

In October 2024 Japan’s oldest furnace, Takahama nuclear power plant, was given the go-ahead to remain activities, making it the first furnace in the country to obtain approval to perform beyond 50 times.

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Kinokuniya outlet at Takashimaya ‘right-sizing’; space will include a cafe

However, Toshin Development stated that the store is “undergoing a area reconfiguration to enhance its book collection while incorporating a lives element.”

This is piece of Books Kinokuniya’s” continued commitment to providing an enriching financial experience”.

Toshin Development noted that” this change includes the addition of a new shop on the same level, giving customers a rejuvenated and interactive environment that complements the store’s offerings.”

The business added that Books Kinokuniya continues to be a “key outlet tenant at Takashimaya Shopping Centre” despite the company’s claim that it “was not able to communicate specific, specific, details regarding the lease.”

Toshin Development stated,” We are excited about this development and think it may improve the overall shopping experience for our customers.”

Ebooks &nbsp, Kinokuniya opened its flagship store at Takashimaya on Aug 8, 1999. The latest business occupies 38, 000 square feet.

It also has another store at Bugis Junction. &nbsp,

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