Their barriers to employment include limited job and research opportunities in public health sector, lack of curricula designed to develop job-ready skills, and a shortage of qualified educators.

Tsudome is a craftsman who makes wooden barrels for distilling shochu, a profession which is practiced by very few people anywhere in the country. He learned the technique from his father, Tatsuya, ...

JAKARTA – President Prabowo Subianto might not have thought his remarks would spark a controversy when he recently suggested that Indonesia expand oil palm plantations without worrying about ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Japan-based space startup ispace, Inc.’s Resilience lunar lander was launched on a journey toward the moon from the Kennedy Space Center at 1:10 a.m. on Wednesday. It separated ...

BEIJING – China has added seven United States companies to its unreliable entity list for their selling arms to China’s Taiwan region, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. Despite China’s strong ...

VIENTIANE – Seventy years ago, the Philippines became the second country in Asia and the fourth in the world to establish formal bilateral relations with Laos, and to recognise its role in the ...

HONG KONG – A 32-year-old woman was arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of luring two Hong Kong females to Southeast Asian countries and forcing them to commit fraud. The two alleged victims ...

JAKARTA – The government plans to impose a minimum age limit for social media users to follow in the footsteps of Australia in safeguarding minors online, a move that has been widely lauded but also ...

BANGKOK – Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is scheduled to visit three southern border provinces on Thursday, shortly after two bomb attacks in Pattani and Narathiwat that claimed two lives and ...

SEOUL – South Korea’s National Intelligence Service on Monday confirmed the shocking facts and atrocities involving North Korean soldiers who were dispatched to fight Ukraine. It is hard to fathom ...

ISLAMABAD – The military on Wednesday strongly reacted to the Indian army chief calling Pakistan the “epicentre of terrorism”, saying that instead of trying to ...

In recent years, China has deepened its strategic cooperative partnership with Sri Lanka with fruitful outcomes on Belt and Road cooperation, including the building of a container terminal in Colombo, ...