Japan, UK begin talks with view to scrapping tariffs on Japanese cars around 2026: Jiji
TOKYO, Jul 31, 2020, Jiji/Reuters. Japan and Britain began talks with a view to scrapping…
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
CANBERRA, Jul 31, 2020, AP. The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give…
Japan women, men’s life expectancy in 2019 stays in world top-3
TOKYO, Jul 31, 2020, Kyodo. Japanese women and men retained second and third places, respectively,…
Preparations for autumn tourist season begin in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Jul 31, 2020, The Kathmandu Post. Mingma Sherpa, one of the biggest mountaineering expedition…
Vietnam needs full market economy: Experts
HANOI, Jul 31, 2020, VNS/VNA. Economists have said Vietnam would gain many benefits from a…
Mexico’s Covid case numbers could actually be 7 million: Expert
MEXICO CITY, Jul 31, 2020, Bloomberg. Mexico’s real coronavirus case tally could be more than…
US president Trump suggests delaying November election — but it’s not likely
WASHINGTON D.C., Jul 31, 2020, LA Times. In a desperate struggle to resuscitate his reelection…
Vietnam transport ministry plans over $17B to build expressways in 5 years
HANOI, Jul 31, 2020, Hanoi Times. Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked for funding…
[Analytics] The case for an East Asian ‘climate club’ led by Australia
The Nobel Prize-winning US economist William Nordhaus fired a salvo recently when he published an…
China slams Fiji opposition’s Covid-19 claims
SUVA, Jul 31, 2020, RNZ. The Chinese Embassy in Fiji has condemned claims made by…
US ex-marine jailed for 9 years by Russian court
MOSCOW, Jul 31, 2020, CNN. A Moscow court sentenced former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed to…
China-US relationship needs a ‘reset’: China’s envoy
WASHINGTON D.C., Jul 31, 2020, China Daily. The China-US relationship can have a future only…