Japanese health authorities say that the country’s reported cases of measles have topped 220 so far this year, more than 70 percent of the total in 2018. Experts say the measles virus is highly contagious, causing symptoms such as fever and skin rash. If a pregnant woman is infected it can trigger a miscarriage or premature delivery. The National Institute… Read more »
The plaintiffs Ai Nakajima and Kristina Baumann are one of the couples involved. In 2011, Nakajima traveled to Germany for work. That’s where she met and fell in love with Baumann. They were eventually married. They moved to Japan and filed paperwork to have their marriage recognized. But, as they expected, it was rejected. Baumann is currently in Japan on… Read more »
The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is over. The day started with optimism and promises of turning North Korea into an economic power house. It ended with both men heading their separate ways without an agreement on denuclearization. The American and North Korean leaders could not come to terms. Trump says it came down to one thing…. Read more »
HANGZHOU, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday that China appreciated the unremitting efforts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States to promote the political settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. After the meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Russia and India held in… Read more »
Friction between the United States and China continues to escalate as they continuously fail to come to a trade agreement. The Trump Administration continues to put pressure on China, increasing supervision on their tech companies and tariffs on their exported commodities. Additionally, the United States has been pushing their allies to boycott Chinese exports specifically from Huawei, a Chinese multinational… Read more »
HONG KONG, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA) reported on Wednesday a 30 percent drop in its 2018 profit with the previous year’s earnings inflated by divestment of some non-core assets, and as operating costs rose. BEA, which counts Hong Kong and China as its main markets, posted a profit of HK$6.5 billion ($828.12… Read more »
After US President Donald Trump assumed office, the US government labeled China a “revisionist” powers defined the Asian nation as a long-term strategic adversary. Since the Trump administration initiated the Section 232 and 301 investigations to strengthen supervision on Chinese investment in the science and technology sectors and increased tariffs on its export commodities, China-US trade friction has escalated. Despite… Read more »
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in March 2018, the mainstream view in China’s strategic community has evolved. China has gradually come to embrace the notion that Kim’s denuclearisation diplomacy is a genuine strategic shift, not a tactical manoeuvre. It is not clear whether this shift in the strategic community is a state-directed… Read more »
One of the most important factors driving the rapid growth of China’s economy over the previous decade has been the unprecedented expansion of the country’s financial system. Since the global financial crisis, bank assets have quadrupled to an astonishing US$39.5 trillion in 2018, roughly three times the size of China’s economy. This amounts to the largest single-country credit expansion in… Read more »
President Duterte said he was willing to help the Rohingya Muslims by accepting refugees and slammed the supposed inaction of other international bodies regarding the plight of the ethnic group. In a speech at the Manila Hotel on Tuesday, the President said that he would never recognize the International Criminal Court (ICC) because it was not a body created by… Read more »