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[ad_1] Phnom Penh – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet kept a low profile at the ASEAN summit in Vientiane, holding meetings on the sidelines with fellow leaders but making no public statements to the media.An ex-military man, he marched straight past waiting reporters as he arrived for summit sessions, his most animated moment a jovial conversation with Singapore's foreign minister.More than a year after inheriting power from his father Hun […]

[ad_1] BENGALURU, India – India has a plan to carve out a beachhead in the battle for commercial space, officials say: crunching space data, building small satellites and launching them cheaply into orbit rather than challenging heavyweights such as SpaceX head-on.In particular, it is taking aim at providing cost-effective services and hardware to sectors such as communications, agriculture and commodities, where high-quality data is a precious resource.At stake is a […]

[ad_1] Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday instructed his Liberal Democratic Party to hold discussions on measures to ensure security in the Asian region. Ishiba, the ruling LDP's president, apparently had in mind his proposals for revising the Japan-U.S. status of forces pact and creating an Asian version of NATO. "I want the discussions to proceed in close coordination with the foreign and defense ministries," he told a meeting at […]

[ad_1] Donald Trump took his seat at the dining table in his triplex penthouse apartment atop Trump Tower on the last Sunday in September, alongside some of the most sought-after and wealthiest figures in the Republican Party.There was Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who finances Republican campaigns and pro-Israel causes, and Warren Stephens, the billionaire investment banker. Joining them were Betsy DeVos, the billionaire former education secretary under […]

[ad_1] Seoul – South Korea's military said Monday it was "fully ready" to respond after North Korea ordered troops on the border to prepare to fire, in an escalating dispute over drone flights to Pyongyang.The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital to drop propaganda leaflets filled with "inflammatory rumors and rubbish," and warned Sunday that if another drone was detected, it would consider it "a […]

[ad_1] STOCKHOLM – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 […]

[ad_1] Shizuoka – Former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, acquitted in a retrial 58 years after his arrest in a murder case, on Monday made his first public appearance since his acquittal became final last week. "There was a long battle. I've finally achieved a complete acquittal," Hakamata, 88, said at a gathering of supporters in the city of Shizuoka. He arrived at the venue in a wheelchair. After shaking […]

[ad_1] JAKARTA – In 2014, then presidential hopeful and outsider Joko Widodo attended packed campaigns with a white ribbon warning against election fraud tied around his head.At the time, Jokowi — as the president is known — symbolized democracy and change, embodying the hope of a better, cleaner Indonesia.After two terms and a decade in power, he has left an indelible mark on the nation of 280 million, presiding over […]

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – The United States said on Sunday it will send U.S. troops to Israel along with an advanced U.S. antimissile system, in a highly unusual deployment meant to bolster the country's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran.U.S. President Joe Biden said the move was meant "to defend Israel," which is weighing an expected retaliation against Iran after Tehran fired more than 180 missiles at Israel on Oct […]