Asian country welcomed record 36.8 million visitors in 2024, tourism agency says. Japan welcomed the most visitors in history in 2024, as the country’s weak currency fuelled a tourism boom, according to official figures. More than 36.8 million people visited the Asian country for business or leisure last year, estimates from the Japan National Tourism…
Video-sharing platform dismisses report claiming Chinese government is considering sale to tech billionaire. TikTok has dismissed as “pure fiction” a report claiming that the Chinese government is considering the platform’s sale to Elon Musk to avoid a ban in the United States. Bloomberg News on Tuesday reported that Chinese officials are in preliminary talks about…
Offer comes after Ukraine announced capturing two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Kyiv is “ready to hand over” captured North Korean soldiers in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russia. The offer on Sunday came hours after South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) confirmed…
Attack on village of Kyauk Ni Maw, in Ramree island township, kills more than 40 people and destroys about 500 homes. Air attacks by Myanmar’s military in the western state of Rakhine this week killed dozens of people, the United Nations said, as the country continues to be mired in violence four years after a…
Karen State, Myanmar – Thaw Hti was a tiny speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a return to democracy after the Myanmar military seized power. “We had signboards and they had guns,” she said, recounting with bitterness the events of March…
Here are the key developments on the 1,050th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Thursday, January 9: Fighting A Russian-guided bomb attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said in a statement on social media….
Amnesty International welcomed the transfer but said Guantanamo would remain a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on human rights in the US. The United States has transferred 11 Yemeni detainees from its notorious Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge as part of Washington’s so-called “war on terror”….
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets South Korea’s Acting President Choi Sang-mok in Seoul. North Korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea at the same time the top United States diplomat was holding meetings in the South Korean capital, Seoul. South Korea’s military said the missile was launched eastward at about noon…
Four-time Grand Slam champion pulls out of her first WTA final in three years after winning the first set of the Auckland Open. Naomi Osaka has retired from the final of the Auckland Classic with an abdominal injury, a blow to the Japanese star just a week before the start of the Australian Open. Playing…
Prosecutors ask acting president to order security forces to comply with arrest warrant for impeached leader Yoon. Thousands of South Korean protesters for and against impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol have staged rival rallies in Seoul, a day after authorities failed to execute an arrest warrant on the suspended leader over his short-lived declaration of martial…
