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https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/MP-Materials-rare-earths-output-hits-record-ahead-of-Japan-entry YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writer February 24, 2023 12:00 JST PALO ALTO, U.S.-- MP Materials produced a record volume of rare-earth elements in 2022 and is set to further increase...

The benefits of having a free media: most, if not all, voices are heard. Very different from tyrannical uniformity which generates visually impressive parades and chareographies.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230224-93159/

On a side note: If they are able to make it to know how to toe with the party lines, then it means it is smart enough to know how to survive. Probably this will come at the cost of creativity (art cannot be conformist) and innovation, though.

(UPDATE) DECLARING that "Ayungin Shoal is ours," the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Thursday blasted China for "continuing to ignore the Philippines' legal ownership" of the shoal, which is in the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). "China continues to ignore the Philippines' legal...

BEIJING A Japanese man in his 50s was sentenced to 12 years in prison in China earlier this month for espionage, a Japanese Foreign Ministry source said Thursday. The man, who has been detained in Changsha in central China's Hunan Province since July 2019, was given the sentence by an...

https://6abc.com/european-commission-bans-tiktok-from-employees-phones/12867176/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral European Commission employees will have to remove TikTok from their work phones for security reasons, the European Union's executive body said Thursday. The Commission...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/BYD-acknowledges-using-toxic-chemical-in-electric-buses-for-Japan

... ... Let’s shift from statistics to the politics of Xi Jinping, leader for life. In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping had invented “Sinocapitalism,” triggering stunning growth. The party loosened its heavy grip in favor of cultural freedom and entrepreneurial autonomy, the unwritten motto...

Hurrah!

But in which big cities do people stick to a specific moral compass? US is no worse, on that ground. In fact, it has an advantage, for only 9 US cities have population over a million. On that ground, with its population dispersed all across the relatively more habitable large land area, the...

President Volodymyr Zelensky is planning to travel to Vilnius for NATO’s summit in July, Petro Beshta, Ukraine’s ambassador to Lithuania, has told BNS in an interview...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/China-tensions-boost-defense-industry-at-Philippines-Subic-Bay Cerberus Capital Management took over the bankrupt Hanjin shipyard at Subic Bay in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority)

Currently, many South Korean enterprises are making effective investments in the country. The latest data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) shows that the accumulated registered FDI capital from South Korea from 1988 to September 2022 reached more than US$80.5 billion with more...

Vietnam at center of Japan's ASEAN supply chain shift: survey LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writer February 14, 2023 15:00 JST HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam's increasingly vital role in supply chains is bringing greater electronics investment from Japan as well as more awareness of human rights...

https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/02/15/news/us-backs-ph-in-new-dispute-with-china/1878648 THE United States renewed a warning that it would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under attack in the disputed South China Sea, after a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly hit a Philippine...

Indeed. If it were true, propaganda would have already blow it out of proportion. Obviously, the scenario has failed.

What happened to the famous balloon? *** Japan to clear way for SDF to shoot down encroaching balloons https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/Japan-to-clear-way-for-SDF-to-shoot-down-encroaching-balloons

It says the laser creates temporary blindness. **** Marcos summons Beijing envoy over laser use in South China Sea https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/South-China-Sea/Marcos-summons-Beijing-envoy-over-laser-use-in-South-China-Sea

Taiwan team in Turkey rescues man 198 hours after deadly quake https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202302140027 It took the team, with the help of local rescue workers, roughly four hours to pull the man from the rubble, the S.A.R., Taiwan said