This handout photo taken on February 1, 2023 and released by Western Mindanao Command shows US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (right) shaking hands with Westmincom commander Lieutenant General Roy Galido (left) shortly after arriving at the Westmincom headquarters in Zamboanga City, in southern island of Mindanao. (PHOTO / WESTERN MINDANAO COMMAND / AFP) After […]
Speaking at a forum organized by a US think tank, US Consul General to Hong Kong Gregory May held forth on allegations against Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative government of undercutting the city’s high degree of autonomy, and called on the SAR administration to drop all charges against “individuals unjustly detained” in Hong […]
TOKYO, Jan 30, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that a decision to transition its structure from a Company with the Audit and Supervisory Board to a Company with a Nominating Committee, etc. was made at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 30, […]
Commuters make their way along a street during a nationwide power outage, in Islamabad on Jan 23, 2023. (FAROOQ NAEEM / AFP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's government began restoring power to millions of people on Monday after a breakdown in the grid triggered the worst electricity outage in months and highlighted the weak infrastructure of the […]
HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – “Being consciously single” is not a new term. Over the past few years, especially during the pandemic, it has become a trend to enjoy staying single. According to a study by Bumble, a dating app where women are dominant, 53% of respondents said that […]
With the United States' federal debt expected to hit the existing ceiling on Thursday, the US Treasury Department has announced that it will have to take unusual means to sustain the operation of the government if the ceiling is not raised. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged lawmakers to act quickly to raise the debt […]
New York, NY, January 15, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – Carbon recently announced the upcoming launch of its new Carbon Web3 browser. By utilizing blockchain technology, Carbon browser can provide faster, more private and secure web browsing to the masses. The new privacy focused browser is gaining popularity for blazingly fast speed and unprecedented security. The Carbon browser is […]
The file photo dated Feb 21, 2021 shows storage tanks for contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which was badly damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. (PHILIP FONG / AFP) TOKYO – The Japanese government gave an estimation for when the water […]
Japan seems intent on stepping up unsettling efforts to strengthen its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a US Naval News website report on Tuesday, as well as two large warships dedicated to ballistic missile defense that it is building to replace the canceled land-based Aegis missile defense system, Japan plans to build […]
TOKYO, Jan 5, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation and ENEOS Corporation are pleased to announce our agreement to establish a joint-venture company (JV) aimed at optimizing delivery operations by leveraging gas stations (service stations/SS). The business shall take advantage of ENEOS’s SS network, which spans more than 12,000 locations across Japan, […]
Ratnasingham Rajini, 45, watches her grandson S. Saksan, 5, who has been diagnosed with leukaemia, while he takes a nap in a corridor of a cancer care transit home near Apeksha Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug 11, 2022. "I have to give him something easy to eat like porridge every 2 hours but he doesn't […]
Supporters of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu gather in front of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality during a protest in Istanbul on Dec 15, 2022, after a Turkish court sentenced him to more than two years jail and banned him from politics ahead of next year's presidential election. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) ISTANBUL – Thousands of people […]
It’s been quite a year for China in 2022. From the highs of the Olympics, which seems a lifetime ago now, to the lows of the lockdowns in Shanghai, China has experienced the entire gamut of emotions when it comes to reintegrating into the world. Now, the country is firmly emerging from its COVID-19-induced self-isolation. […]
This photo taken in June 2017 shows Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-35A stealth jet at a factory of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, in Toyoyama, central Japan. (KYODO NEWS VIA AP) TOKYO – Japan, Britain and Italy will announce a groundbreaking agreement as early as next week to jointly develop a new advanced jet fighter, two sources with knowledge […]
LONDON AND HONG KONG, Nov 30, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Prenetics Global Limited (NASDAQ: PRE) (“Prenetics” or the “Company”), a global leader in genomic and diagnostic testing, today announced that its board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program, and that it has been included as a constituent stock in the […]
People are seen on a road in Kandahar city, southern Afghanistan, Aug 31, 2021. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam / Xinhua) AMSTERDAM- A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday the shelling by Dutch soldiers of a residential complex in the Afghan province of Uruzgan in June 2007 was illegal, adding the Netherlands should compensate the victims. The […]
State Councilor and Minister of National Defense General Wei Fenghe (2nd R) meets United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (2nd L) in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Nov 22, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Mapped on charts, the dense zigzag tracks of US warships and military planes that embroider China's coastline from the Yellow Sea all the […]
TOKYO, Nov 3, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Honda R&D Co., Ltd., which takes a lead role in Honda’s technology research and development, today unveiled two “Honda CI Micro-mobility” machines, which utilize Honda CI (Cooperative Intelligence(1)), Honda’s original AI (artificial intelligence) that enables mutual understanding between machines and people. The 4-passenger model of […]
Vibrancy and efficiency combined with a particularly safe living environment all remain evident in Hong Kong in a way not commonly seen in other large, modern global cities. Still, the series of tests which the HKSAR faces today are acutely demanding. This, though, resonates with the position faced in most jurisdictions worldwide. Hong Kong, meanwhile, […]
Mahe, Seychelles, October 22, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – Kristof Schöffling’s rapidly growing Software Intelligence Company Move Digital is betting big on blockchain technology to provide sustainable and egalitarian earning opportunities to internet users around the globe. In addition to this, Schöffling is backing a sustainable initiative in Monaco which has been working for the past seven years to […]
JAKARTA, Oct 14, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Indonesia’s Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) is offering building use permits (HGBs) of up to 80 years, extendable to 160 years, as an incentive for investors to join in the construction of the Indonesian new capital (IKN) Nusantara, to be […]
A US cargo ship docks at the Qingdao Port, Shandong province. (YU SHAOYUE / FOR CHINA DAILY) Although the Office of the United States Trade Representative claimed that US domestic industries benefit from the tariff actions in the Section 301 investigation of China last month, the call from industries to end those tariffs, which the […]
HONG KONG, Oct 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Essex Bio-Technology Limited (the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) wishes to announce that Essex Bio-Investment Limited (“Essex Bio-Investment”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Group has on 13 October 2022 successfully secured (i) a patent and know-how licence agreement; and (ii) a patent […]
JAKARTA, Oct 12, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) is offering building use rights (HGB) of up to 80 and extendable to 160 years to attract investors to the new capital (IKN) Nusantara. Balang Island Short Span Bridge in Penajam North Paser Regency, East […]
Customers walk out of an Optus telecommunications retail store in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Oct 5, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) SYDNEY – Two Australian regulators said on Tuesday they have opened investigations into Optus, the country's No 2 telecoms provider, after a breach of its systems resulted in the theft of […]
New York, NY, October 05, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – MMPRO (Market Making Pro) together with Gate.io implements one of the unique ways to use NFT as a startup panel tool. Market Making Pro dates back to 2016, since then more than 500 companies have become clients, and the capitalization of projects under Marketmaking.pro management exceeded 10 billion dollars. They have a great […]
This handout photo taken on Nov 12, 2017 and provided by the ROK Defense Ministry in Seoul shows USS Nimitz (3rd left), USS Ronald Reagan (2nd left) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (left) conducting operations with ROK's destroyer "King Sejong" (front) during a joint naval drill in the waters east of ROK. (ROK DEFENSE MINISTRY / […]
With her party, Brothers of Italy, winning the most votes in the country's national election, Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy's first female prime minister. That has aroused widespread worries in Europe, as the Brothers of Italy is a euroskeptic, far-right, populist party, and the only major political party that refused to join outgoing […]
An image made available by al-Huthi Media Office on Sept 21, 2022 shows a military parade in the capital Sanaa, as the Huthi's marked the eighth anniversary of their seizure of the capital. (AL-HUTHI GROUP MEDIA OFFICE / AFP) ADEN, Yemen – UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said on Saturday that he has […]
US accusations of China's debt traps have become background noise in recent years such is the constancy with which Washington tries to smear China's loans to developing countries. In a speech purportedly on international sovereign lending at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington on Tuesday, Brent Neiman, the top adviser to US Treasury […]