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TOKYO -- Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average on Friday morning fell as much as 1,346.7 yen, or 3.5%, from the previous day's close as market players reacted to reports of Israel striking Iran with missiles.
This comes even as prices of industrial minerals such as copper and zinc have bubbled up to multi-month highs, while searing weather threaten food output. For most of Asia, it means the prospect of inflation is a real worry.
Lee Dong-gyeong’s first-half goal gave South Korean club Ulsan HD a 1-0 win over Japan’s Yokohama F.Marinos in the first leg of their Asian Champions League semifinal on Wednesday.
Last week’s US-Japan alliance bilateral summit between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio not only launched more than 70 deliverables that spanned the interagency, across the defense, across space, education, and technology, it also launched a new trilateral with the Philippines (at the summit level, at least), adding one more minilateral partnership to a lexicon that now includes AUKUS (Australia-UK-US), the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (US-Japan-Australia), the US-Japan-UK naval trilateral, and the US-Japan-South Korea trilateral and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (“Quad”).
Experts say the rise of deepfake technology may pose a significant threat to democracy in 2024, with major elections happening in India and the US.
TOKYO -- Asia on Sunday reacted with alarm to a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East, as Iran lobbed explosive drones and missiles in its first direct attack on Israel.
UK defence secretary Grant Shapps has said that consultations on future cooperation between Aukus partners and other nations will begin this year. What assets might Asian allies such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore bring to the table?
China will remain the largest growth engine for the world economy in spite of its slowdown, the Asian Development Bank said.