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[ad_1] Taiwan’s main opposition party had pinned its hopes of winning the recent presidential election on convincing voters it would serve their interests, not China’s. But the Kuomintang’s (KMT) central pitch was undercut by one of its own just days before polls opened."You can never fight a war with the mainland. You can never win,” former President Ma Ying-jeou told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The comments by Ma, who remains […]

[ad_1] MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – Donald Trump won New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary election on Tuesday, Edison Research projected, moving closer to a likely November rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden even as his only remaining rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, vowed to soldier on."This race is far from over," she told her supporters at a primary night party in Concord, challenging Trump to debate her. "I'm a fighter. […]

[ad_1] North Korea fired a volley of cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, in the latest example of fraying ties on the Korean Peninsula. The North fired the cruise missiles into the waters around 7 a.m., the Yonhap news agency quoted the South Korean military as saying. South Korean officials are working with U.S. authorities to analyze the launches. North Korean leader Kim […]

[ad_1] JR East restarted bullet train services as usual on Wednesday, except for two trains in the morning, after Tuesday's large-scale suspension on the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku shinkansen lines due to a power outage.The two trains are the Nasuno 266 on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line that departs Nasushiobara Station for Tokyo Station and Tsubasa 129 on the Yamagata Shinkansen Line that leaves Tokyo Station for Yamagata Station.Sections of the […]

[ad_1] Suzu, Ishikawa Pref. – Fishermen have resumed fishing for winter yellowtail in waters off Ishikawa Prefecture this week as business begins to return to normal in quake-hit Takojima Port.Activity resumed at the port in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Monday, thanks to emergency repair work after facilities were badly damaged by the earthquake, which was rated a shindo 7, the highest rating on the seven-point Japanese seismic intensity scale.Around 600 […]

[ad_1] Densely packed aircraft, little legroom and no free drinks. It’s starting to look like the uncomfortable reality of global air travel for more and more passengers as airlines race to decarbonize. The spartan cabins and fuss-free service of low-cost carriers appeared half a century ago, a makeover that made flying affordable to the masses. Since Southwest Airlines first took off from Dallas in 1971, dozens of budget peers including […]

[ad_1] Australia won’t interfere in any moves by the Pacific nation of Tuvalu to end its diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said, following media reports that it could follow Nauru’s lead in shifting its alliance to China.Tuvalu’s foreign policy is a matter for the Pacific nation alone, Wong said at a news conference in Canberra on Tuesday. Any decision on its recognition of either Taiwan […]

[ad_1] Two workers were taken to a hospital Tuesday after they were apparently electrocuted while working to fix a hanging overhead electrical wire on a shinkansen track that was believed to have caused a power outage and halted bullet train lines in eastern and central Japan, police sources said.Many bullet train services between Tokyo and stations in eastern and central Japan that were suspended due to the power outage will […]

[ad_1] In a widely expected move, the Bank of Japan left the world’s last negative rate policy unchanged Tuesday, due in part to uncertainty over how the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 1 will affect the Japanese economy.Market participants and observers are closely watching for when the BOJ will start exiting negative rates, amid growing expectations that the central bank will likely seek normalization from its […]