South Korea cuts 2030 emissions reductions targets for industry
SEOUL: South Korea revised down its 2030 targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector on Tuesday (Mar 21) but maintained its national goal of cutting emissions by 40 per cent of 2018 levels in what it called a reasonable adjustment. This is the first annual and sectoralContinue Reading
China’s demography not an imminent economic threat
China’s population fell in 2022 and will continue to do so throughout the 21st century, according to the United Nations Population Division’s 2022 Revision of World Population Prospects. The data shows a sharp fall in China’s fertility rate from 1.81 births per woman in 2017 to 1.16 in 2021. This trend is based on data […]Continue Reading
Chinese pair reported abducted for ransom
CHON BURI: Two Chinese nationals, a woman and a man, are reported to have been adbucted and held for ransom in Chon Buri.Continue Reading
Why Nepal suffered fewer fatalities than Turkey in similar quakes
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey on February 6, and more than 45,000 people have died to date, and the toll is still rising. A quake of the same magnitude struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, and 8,790 people were killed in that Gorkha Earthquake. Turkey and Nepal have huge disparities in terms of economic and […]Continue Reading
US Federal Reserve in high-wire rate decision
The Federal Reserve faces a pivotal decision on March 22, 2023: whether to continue its aggressive fight against inflation or put it on hold. Making another big interest rate hike would risk exacerbating the global banking turmoil sparked by Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on March 10. Raising rates too little, or not at all as […]Continue Reading
Zhao Weiguo: Chinese regulator accuses chip tycoon of corruption
Zhao Weiguo formerly headed Tsinghua Unigroup, which was one of China’s leading chipmakers.Continue Reading
Police free woman locked in by tomboy lover
BURI RAM: A 31-year-old woman whose lesbian lover had locked her inside their restaurant building and left for Udon Thani for a few days was freed by police on Monday night.Continue Reading
AUKUS a hard nuke sale in next door SE Asia
MANILA – “I would say, ‘Do you need to be contained? Are you expanding? Are you an expansionist power?’ To a very great extent, the United States was the champion for China’s rise. And in no way are we seeking to contain China. But we are seeking for them to play by the rules,” said […]Continue Reading
China should step up its game on Law of the Sea
As Xi Jinping begins his unprecedented third term as president of China, he has urged his country to fight back against US-led effort to embarrass, isolate, contain and suppress his country. As a follow-up, in his first press conference, new Foreign Minister Qin Gang said he wants China to be the champion of the developing world and […]Continue Reading
Honduran official: US govt ‘respects’ decision to seek China relations
TEGUCIGALPA: The US government said it “respects” Honduras’ decision to move towards establishing formal diplomatic ties with China, the Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said on Monday (Mar 20) after a meeting with US officials. Reina said Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro made “general comments” on the decision during the meetingContinue Reading