Too scared to offend China: Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier ‘will avoid the Taiwan Strait on maiden voyage through South China Sea to avoid provoking Beijing’ HMS Queen Elizabeth will take the South China Sea after sailing east from the UK Politicians
The U.S. Navy has disciplined an officer for calling enlisted sailors ‘hatchet-wielding perverts’ and ‘deviants’ who posed a risk to his family in a typo-ridden letter. The letter was signed by ‘Lt. Nathanael Allison, PhD’, who wrote that he had been given
Japan’s government announced on Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years. It’s a move that’s fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan’s neighbours. The decision, long speculated at
Most Australian workers don’t want to return to offices after Covid and businesses say they likely never will – as work-from-home increases productivity Just 17 per cent of professionals want to come back to the office permanently Atlassian’s Dom Price said 30
Doctors in Japan have performed the world’s first-ever living donor lung transplant on a patient with severe lung damage from Covid-19. A Japanese woman’s life was saved by the nearly 11-hour operation carried out by a medical team of 30 after her
Japan’s government is considering bringing in a four-day working week aimed at improving people’s quality of life, the country’s Chief Cabinet Secretary has said. It is hoped that the scheme would also boost the country’s tourism industry that has been hit hard
Experts have raised concerns that the Tokyo Olympics could trigger a global super-spreading event. After being postponed last year, the games are going ahead and are set to kick off on July 23 despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A ban on foreign
Australians could travel quarantine-free to countries across the Asia-Pacific within months after New Zealand re-opened the border with its trans-Tasman neighbour. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Tuesday she would welcome Australian travellers without the need for quarantine from April
Liz Truss submits UK’s application to join the CPTPP And Graham Stuart MP, Minister for Exports at the Department for International Trade, said the Partnering with Japan – Spring ’21 Free Trade Agreement Series, said British companies were now poised for a
Ancient history has been pinged forward in time to the present day – thanks to some cunning digital wizardy. Six of Asia’s grandest castles have been restored to their former glory by a collaboration between Budget Direct and a team of digital CGI