A South Korean appeals court ordered SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on Friday to pay 944 billion won (US$644 million) to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong, reducing a landmark divorce settlement that had previously been valued at close to US$1…
The groundwork for Monday’s joint statement had been laid over months of high-level engagement. Since last year, Beijing and Bangkok had maintained a steady rhythm of diplomatic contact, steadily expanding the scope of what both governments were willing to put…
In the underground stations of Chengdu’s metro system, sections of platform have been cordoned off — not for construction, not for safety drills, but for commuters to lie down and breathe. The photographs circulating on Xiaohongshu tell a quiet story:…
The alarm had already sounded. On the morning of May 23, 2024, sensors installed at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks were registering hydrogen sulphide concentrations beyond safe thresholds — and still, workers descended into the enclosed passage beneath a water treatment…
What exactly did Japan’s finance minister announce? On Friday, 10 July, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama stated at a regular press conference that the Japanese government intends to pursue measures encouraging pension funds — most notably the Government Pension Investment Fund…
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is preparing proposals to strengthen enforcement of shareholder disclosure rules targeting activist investors, including a significant bolstering of the country’s securities watchdog, a senior LDP lawmaker disclosed to Reuters on Tuesday in Tokyo. A Market Transformed…
The release and arrival in the United States of a senior pastor from one of China’s largest underground churches, following 266 days of imprisonment, offers a precise and sobering illustration of how Beijing continues to manage religious practice through coercive…
The release and arrival in the United States of a senior pastor from one of China’s largest underground churches, following 266 days of imprisonment, offers a precise and sobering illustration of how Beijing continues to manage religious practice through coercive…
A Summit With Weight New Delhi and Tokyo have moved well beyond diplomatic pleasantries. At the 16th annual India-Japan Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi signed off on a dense architecture of bilateral commitments spanning…
From Incentive to Mandate In 2020, Delhi’s then-government introduced its first structured electric vehicle policy, a framework built almost entirely on persuasion. Subsidies, purchase incentives, and awareness campaigns were meant to nudge consumers toward electric mobility. The approach was cautious,…
