Despite enjoying robust economic growth, Laos continues to face challenges in development, particularly in rural areas. The predominantly agricultural nation seeks to eradicate poverty by 2020, and the nongovernmental group Japan International Volunteer Center is doing its bit to help. World Bank figures from 2012 showed ...
Ministers from Japan and 16 African countries agreed Saturday to enhance cooperation in developing natural resources while addressing issues that have prevented foreign investment in the fast-growing continent. Japan has been aggressively involved in financial assistance as well as human resource development in Africa. "Japanese manufacturers ...
At least three countries have staked overlapping territorial claims to the North Pole. How to assess the competing claims seems to hinge on whether a vast ridge that rises from the sea floor is an extension of the Greenland shelf or the East Siberia ...
Japan and three Southeast Asian nations will jointly survey the Strait of Malacca for hazards to shipping next year. Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore will map five priority locations in the congested channel, Japanese officials said. Japanese shipping companies will provide funds and technical personnel. The corridor is ...
Japanese and Colombian leaders are expected to agree Tuesday that the countries will cooperate in promoting Japanese investment in developing the Latin American country's natural resources, a Japanese delegation source said Sunday. In a joint statement to be released after talks in Bogota between Prime ...
Asia's re-emergence on the global stage after a two-century decline is accompanied by an insatiable appetite for natural resources that it doesn't have.
