Asia hit hardest by climate, weather disasters in 2023: UN
According to the report, in India, severe heatwaves in April and June resulted in about 110 reported fatalities due to heatstroke.
According to the report, in India, severe heatwaves in April and June resulted in about 110 reported fatalities due to heatstroke.
With the current dire state of the crippling economy, Pakistan has now become the most expensive country with the highest living cost in the whole of Asia.
The new investment is part of a $50 million round raised by the company, with participation from its existing investor, Kirin Holdings of Japan, and Tiger Pacific Capital from New York
"AI, like the internet in the 90s, is real, but should be played out over the next 20 years,'' it added.
Generative AI (GenAI) will free up to 10 per cent of clinicians' time, translating into an estimated $100 billion in annual healthcare savings in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) by 2025, to realise more workflow automation and efficiency.
A common currency needs robust financial systems and markets, as well as strong institutional support. Not all ASEAN countries have such institutions to deal with the threats to the financial sector, which have increased in recent years. Then there is the lack of control over national monetary and fiscal policies, restricting the governments’ sovereignty and autonomy.
Last week, the ADB revised down its growth forecast from 5.2 percent to 4.3 percent for 2022 and 5.3 percent to 4.9 percent for 2023 for developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region.
The US, which has the shameful record of incarcerating about 6 million people, including those on probation or parole – 10 million enter the prison system each year – is steadily increasing people who are entombed in the so-called Supermax prisons, where nobody can hear their screams and where they are perennially shut in 60 square-feet high-tech steel-and-concrete dungeons.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Wednesday arrested Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, chairman of major publisher Kadokawa Corp., on suspicion of paying bribes related to the Tokyo Olympics.
Over one million Lankans have left the country,
