Japan snow crab fetches record $46,000 at auction
TOTTORI, Nov 7, 2019, Kyodo. A snow crab caught in the western Japan prefecture of…
China, France sign deals worth $15B
BEIJING, Nov 7, 2019, China Daily. China and France signed commercial deals on Wednesday totaling…
Lilium sees big potential to begin commercial air taxi in S. Korea by 2025
SEOUL, Nov 7, 2019, The Korea Times. Lilium, one of the world’s frontrunner air taxi…
Smog returns to greater Bangkok
BANGKOK, Nov 7, 2019, Bangkok Post. Fine dust reached unsafe levels in 14 areas of…
[Analytics] Bougainville is an issue for all of Papua New Guinea
The Peace Agreement that ended the armed conflict in the Bougainville region of Papua New…
Malaysia detains Cambodian opposition leader Mu Sochua
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7, 2019, Reuters. Malaysian authorities have detained an official of a banned…
Chinese investors ready to tap into Central Java manufacturing sector
JAKARTA, Nov 7, 2019, The Jakarta Post. The 15th Central Java Investment Business Forum, held…
[Analytics] Fact or fiction? Xi’s Shanghai claims
Is it fact or is it fiction? President Xi Jinping appeared to issue a statement…
Bridge connecting Sakhalin to mainland Russia to be built by 2035: Governor
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Nov 7, 2019, TASS. The bridge railway crossing between Selikhin (Khabarovsk Region) and Nysh…
[Analytics] New Silk Road money is paving the Old Silk Roads
There never used to be much to do in Khorgos, a remote and dusty outpost…
Indonesia seeks import tariff relief for steel products to China
SHANGHAI, Nov 6, 2019, ANTARA. Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, at…
Xi Jinping’s Brazil trip ‘may be too soon’ for China to sign partial US trade war deal
BEIJING, Nov 6, 2019, SCMP. Next week’s trip to Brazil by Chinese President Xi Jinping…