TICAD closes with effort by Japan to differentiate its African investment projects from China's
The three-day African development conference ends with a 13-page Yokohama Declaration viewed as criticism of Beijing’s “debt-trap diplomacy” in the rapidly growing continent.
Abe pledges to push Japanese investment in Africa but steers clear of target at TICAD
A three-day conference on African development kicked off Wednesday in Yokohama, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to aggressively promote private-sector investment in Africa in his opening speech but failed to set a new numerical target on funds to be funneled to the continent. Facing ...
Chinese presence in Africa looms over opening of TICAD development conference in Yokohama
Dozens of top African leaders are due to visit, but Tokyo is worried that some may cancel their trip because of pressure from China.
The Philippines is entering a new phase in science and technology under a new law creating a space agency, a move officials say will have positive effects on national security and public welfare. The Philippine Space Act was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on Aug. ...
With deforestation surging in Brazil, Germany to suspend Amazon aid
Germany said Saturday it would suspend Brazilian aid aimed at helping protect the Amazon forest in light of data that showed deforestation had surged since President Jair Bolsonaro took office. "Brazilian government policies in the Amazon raise doubts about continued, sustained declines in the rate ...
Myanmar politicians take advantage of China's junket tours
The National League for Democracy was forged in an uprising against one-party rule. Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmar's military junta. But since taking power three years ago, the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has found an unlikely ...
Mexico's government said on Saturday it would help Honduras create 20,000 jobs this year and support its coffee farmers as the two countries seek to curb migration to the United States that has created tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez ...
Thousands protest development on sacred Maori land in New Zealand
Thousands of people protested in New Zealand on Saturday against a proposed housing development on land seen as sacred to the indigenous Maori people, despite efforts by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to calm the dispute. The country's largest builder, Fletcher Building, plans to develop 480 ...
Ministry says India running out of time to cash in on Gen Z boom
India, which is home to more young people than any other country, is running out of time to harness the potential of its youth to drive economic growth. The nation's population in the under-19 age group has already peaked, government data show. That means the ...
Malaysia resumes China-backed rail project after bargaining the price down to $10 billion
Malaysia on Thursday restarted a $10 billion, China-backed rail project that is part of Beijing's global infrastructure drive following its suspension last year when a corruption-plagued government was ejected from power. The 640-kilometer (400-mile) line will link northeast Malaysia, near the Thai border, to the ...
China-backed Dara Sakor project in Cambodia rings alarm bells in Washington
Along pristine Cambodian beaches, past parades of elephants in its largest national park, sits an area half the size of Singapore that is raising alarm bells among military strategists in the U.S. and beyond. Dara Sakor, a $3.8 billion China-backed investment zone encompassing 20 percent ...
Benin leaps into 21st century with new national map, its first since 1957
The last time that cartographers mapped Benin, Elvis Presley had just released "Jailhouse Rock," the Soviets had launched Sputnik — and the country was still a colony named French Dahomey. Things in the West African state have sure changed since 1957, and the old maps ...
