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MANILA -- Nippon Yusen has built a women's dormitory at a maritime college in the Philippines to promote diversity among seafarers in a country from which the Japanese shipping company recruits around 70% of its crew.
SEOUL -- The biggest trade union of Samsung Electronics asked its more than 30,000 members to join an all-out strike on Wednesday, raising tensions with management as the two sides lock horns over pay.
TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Itochu is joining a smart city project in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, trialing AI systems for transportation and energy data management with an eye toward winning bigger business.
HOUSTON -- Texas looks to work with U.S. partners including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in semiconductors as the country races against China in the technology, Gov. Greg Abbott told Nikkei.
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Treasury Department wants to expand the ability to review real estate purchases by foreign buyers near military bases, with a proposal Monday that would extend this authority to more such sites.
TOKYO -- At 3 p.m. on a hot Saturday in June, a woman walked alone into an office building in Otemachi, a Tokyo business district. Unlike most well-known public figures, she brought no entourage to her interview. A Nike baseball cap pulled over her intentionally mussed hair, and sporting an oversized T-shirt, baggy Levi's jeans and black platform Crocs, she came armed only with a cellphone.
NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in his first visit to Moscow since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022 and discuss the gamut of bilateral ties -- including defense, energy and trade -- as well as key regional and global issues.
SEOUL -- The People's Army of North Korea has sent an elite military training delegation to Russia, the Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday, the first announcement of a military exchange involving Pyongyang since the two countries concluded a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in June.