Hereditary politicians still run the show in Japan

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In early February 2023, the son of Japan’s former defense minister Nobuo Kishi, Nobuchiyo Kishi announced that he would run for a parliamentary seat. He will inherit the electoral constituency of his father, who announced his retirement from politics only days before. Nobuchiyo is a classic example of the hereditary politics still entrenched in Japan’s political […]Continue Reading

Fearing ChatGPT is ‘opium,’ China to build its own

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Beijing has stepped up the pace of its efforts to build its own artificial intelligence chatbots as Chinese news media express fears the United States will use ChatGPT to brainwash Chinese people. Since the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last November, many Chinese companies have announced their plans to launch their chatbots in 2023. Chinese […]Continue Reading

Or Kim Peow Contractors awarded S million after arbitration proceedings over 2017 PIE viaduct collapse

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SINGAPORE: Builder Or Kim Peow Contractors has been awarded S$43 million following arbitration proceedings against CPG Consultants over a Pan Island Expressway (PIE) viaduct that collapsed midway through construction in 2017. The incomplete viaduct collapsed in the early hours of Jul 14, 2017, with 11 workers on top of it, injuring 10 of them andContinue Reading

Impossible triangle: India wedged between US and China

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Russia’s failure in its invasion of Ukraine has weakened Moscow’s old ties with India, for decades a bedrock of Indian foreign relations, and brought to the fore the most complicated geopolitical puzzle of the “new Cold War” — between India, China and the United States. New Delhi is shifting its position between the other two, […]Continue Reading