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Research firm Teikoku Databank recently highlighted that the prices for more than 2,000 food and drink products are set to increase during March. By category, 1,381 processed foods such as frozen items are likely to see the biggest hikes. Companies stress that the price rises are due to the higher cost of imported ingredients and the state of the currency. …

Pakistan is set to make history by sending its first-ever astronaut into space with the help of China. Prime Minister Sharhaq told a meeting with China’s President that Pakistan and China would jointly send a manned mission to the Chinese Space Station (CSS). The event itself is an exceptional step into space advancement for Pakistan, further cementing the already solid …

According to Wall Street Journal research published Friday, China now tells its AI research leads and business owners not to travel to America because of security threats.Chinese security officials worry that taking AI experts abroad risks revealing national technology secrets. Government officials are also worried that executives could face detention and become trade negotiation leverage, just as US-China talks happened …

The timetable below is the Asia Ramadan Calendar 2025. The Sehri timing in Asia and Iftar timing in Asia from the first to the last Roza can also be found here. Hijri and Gregorian calendar dates are also given in the following Ramadan schedule Asia to let you know the Asia Ramadan timings. We have attempted to provide authentic Asia …

China is seeking to host the 2030 Maths Olympics for the second time, after the first one in 2002. Mathematician Shing-Tung Yau is leading a team of 40 Chinese and international mathematicians in the bid for the 2030 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The ICM is an important platform for many mathematical researchers. Yau is the first Chinese to grab …

The number of childbirths in Japan has fallen again, underscoring the deepening challenge of shouldering increasing social security costs for an aging population as the number of taxpayers reduces. This is a concerning situation for the country. The number of infants in 2024 fell 5% from the year before to 720,988, extending a nine-year streak of declines, according to preliminary …

On Thursday Japan’s Iwate region in Ofunato city observed a major wildfire that burned 80 buildings and compelled authorities to send nearly 600 people from their homes. Because of strong wind gusts the forest fire traveled quickly across the area and burned most of the homes to ash. NHK broadcast aerial images showing homes burned in Ofunato Japan while only …

A glimmer of hope in a demographic disaster that has been plaguing the nation. An upward trend in fertility rates after almost a decade has meant the newest and smallest positive development. According to preliminary data from Statistics Korea, it was planned to increase the fertility rate to 0.75 in 2024 from 0.72 in 2023, which has so far been …

Yonaguni is a small but stunning island on the western tip of Japan; ponies roam pasturelands grazed over with shark-nibbled divers. With all this beauty, inwardly turning on itself, the island is undergoing profound changes, and undergoing them very fast. Yonaguni once stood for natural splendor. It has radar towers protruding above its forests, formerly grazing pastures now sound military …

Climate change is becoming a bigger global problem each day. This largely anthropogenic crisis is increasing temperatures in different countries and triggering natural disasters such as storms and floods of much higher frequencies. There is trouble on the horizon in Hokkaido as poor fishing conditions triggered by global heating are endangering Japan’s prized salmon. The prolonged decline in salmon numbers …