For thirty years, Tokyo has been focusing its development aid for Dushanbe on hospitals and mobile first aid devices. Interventions that have led to significant improvements in some areas. Now the goal is to bring the whole of Tajikistan up to the minimum health care standards set by the World Health Organisation by 2030.
The latest data on international arms transfers over the past five years come from Sweden-based SIPRI. India is the world's top importer, while the United States, for the first time in 25 years, is Asia’s largest supplier. Driving rearmament, experts explain, is the perception of a Chinese threat (which continues to boost its war production).
Archbishop Kikuchi of Tokyo made the announcement in a letter. After more than 100 years, the weekly’s print version will cease publication as of March 2025. The magazine will still deliver the news online while a free monthly paper will “be distributed to every parish.”
Today's news: Tokyo sends mini-drones and robot-snakes to one of the Fukushima reactors to prepare for the removal of highly radioactive waste; Israel aims to build new settlements in the West Bank, nearly 15 thousand housing units; Burmese junta hits a market in Rakhine State, at least 12 dead; In Russia, controls on mobile phones and apps increase.
Today's news: Beijing strengths law on state secrets to include those related to 'work'. Mayors of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv confirmed in local elections in Israel. The fourth spill of treated Fukushima water into the ocean is expected today. Hanoi ready to ratify UN convention on trade union freedom by the end of the year.
Despite the fact that Japan's public debt exceeds the size of the real economy by 2.5 times, the government has allocated a record budget for the current fiscal year, with unrealistic targets for public spending. All this while Premier Kishida's party is going through a political crisis stemming from the Liberal Democratic Party's irregular funds scandal,
