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What Takaichi’s Big Election Win Means for Japan’s Conservative Future
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan’s security, immigrati…
Tech giants in China sold off alongside their U.S. peers. How to play it
The latest tech sell-off underscores that it’s still a different game for investing in China versus the U.S. “The U.S. decline was primarily triggered by earnings miss[es] from some market leaders, but in China it was mainly sentiment spill…
Japan’s Sanae Takaichi wins a landslide in snap election, exit polls project
Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election, exit polls suggest.
Takaichi, who took office in October after being elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Par…
Kovrig reacts to China overturning death sentence of Canadian
A Canadian sentenced to death in China has had his judgment overturned, coming amid a thaw in diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Beijing. British Columbia resident Robert Schellenberg, who faces drug smuggling charges, will now get a new trial.…
Mark Carney’s speech got the world’s attention – but was it the right message?
Mark Carney’s speech in Davos last month has made a bigger splash than any pronouncement by a Canadian prime minister in years.
Not since Brian Mulroney clashed with Margaret Thatcher over South African apartheid has something a PM said been so remarke…
Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ bets the house
When Sanae Takaichi first ran for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics for much of the past eight decades, she was eliminated in the first round with less than 20 per cent of the vote.…
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IndiGo plans to launch Delhi
IndiGo plans to launch direct flights between New Delhi and Shanghai soon to become the third airline to operate flights between the two cities after India and China resumed air services last year after a gap of about five years.…
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Trump Endorses Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ Takaichi Ahead Of Sunday Election
Tokyo: U.S. President Donald Trump gave his “total endorsement” of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a national election in Japan on Sunday, adding he looked forward to hosting her at the White House next month.…
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China and ASEAN Celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival Together
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 6 February 2026 – 2026 marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of dialogue relations between China and ASEAN and the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the China-ASEAN Compre…
Russia and US agreed nuclear talks needed soon, Kremlin says
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and U.S. negotiators discussed the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries and agreed on the need to quickly launch new arms control talks, the Kremlin said Friday.…
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