India wants to be a global chip powerhouse in 5 years
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With the launch of the Fujian on June 17, 2022, China unveiled its first home-designed aircraft carrier – a hi-tech vessel meant to counter the new Gerald R Ford-class of American aircraft carriers currently in operations.
Protesters in India have clashed with police during rallies against a new military recruitment scheme. Dozens of people were detained on June 19, 2022, as police used batons and tear gas to disperse protesters who had taken to the streets and damaged gove...
North Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a province battling the outbreak of an intestinal disease, state media reported on Sunday.
What Thailand’s legalization of marijuana means for Southeast Asia's war on drugs
It will take a lot of work to repair this damage and, in many places, the river has permanently moved meaning new roads will have to be built using new routes.
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Japan’s parliament has passed a bill imposing tougher penalties for online insults. The amendment of the penal code will take effect in late 2022, with offenders subject to prison time of up to a year, or a 300,000 yen (US$2,228) fine.
India is under massive pressure to break relations with Russia over the war in Ukraine. But can it afford to do so – and does it even want to? In Part 1 of “India’s Choice,” a special series on India’s geopolitical dilemmas, DW’s Richard Walker explain...
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Millions of consumers and small business owners in Indonesia have been rattled for months by surging cooking oil prices. Soaring prices have been triggered by a jump in demand for palm oil, particularly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two European...
According to Bloomberg, a top Chinese economist suggests invading Taiwan to seize global chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) if the U.S. i...
From Sasha Grey visit to stolen technologies - russian way of "import substitution". What is that?How it should have worked?And why it is so grotesque...____...
This year's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos was a more anxious affair than usual. The received wisdom that international trade creates a more peaceful world is being challenged.
Chinese travellers in hazmat suits were seen waiting to board a flight from Cambodia to the Chinese port city of Xiamen on June 5, 2022. The returning travellers appear to be taking extra precaution as China has one of the world’s toughest Covid-19 restri...
The ancient city of Fenghuang in Hunan province suffered from heavy rain and flood from June 2 to 3. In Jufu Village, Aizhai Town, a flood swept away many homestays with pointed roofs and wooden structures. A person wearing raincoats stood by and watched...