Japan

A man who murdered nine people after contacting them on Twitter has been sentenced to death, in a high-profile case that has shocked Japan.

Tokyo, December 16 (Reuters) - Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms this week and has been found in around a quarter of the country’s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering more cullings. About 32,000 birds will be slaughtered and buried in Sukumo city in Kochi prefecture in southwestern Japan after avian influenza was discovered at an...

Japan is not known to have used its development assistance to mount unhealthy and unfriendly economic or political pressures, former Megapolis minister Champika Ranwaka said in his letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga

Lack of a decisive and comprehensive policy on the Indo-Pacific and the reactive, situation-driven decisions in response to Sino-US advances have pushed the island between a rock and a hard place.

At the talks, Lanka stressed the need for quality infrastructure development as a prerequisite to achieve its vision to be a trade and maritime hub of the Indian Ocean