A justice ministry official said on Thursday that Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely. A law that took effect in the year of 2020 allows a category of "specified skilled workers" in 14 sectors to stay for up to five years without their family members. If the revision takes effect, such workers from Vietnam and China would be allowed to renew their visas indefinitely and bring their families with them, as the other category of more skilled foreigners are allowed to do now.
The Iron Dome is being tested by the U.S. Army at a military base in Guam amid concerns about China. The image is Adam Falk.
The stand-down won't stop submarine operations.
There has been a 30 percentage point swing against Biden in the last year on his fitness for office.
The Japanese Embassy in Washington said on Wednesday that the vice foreign minister had pulled out of the news conference because of the territorial dispute. Wendy Sherman was left to answer questions on her own after she had just met with the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister and the South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister.
The White House is making public all agency-waiver requests to the administration's "Buy American" rule. The public can scrutinize the president's commitment to foster sales of U.S.-made products. It will keep the administra if you subscribe for free.
B&H Photo is selling Apple's mini HomePod in the latest colors for the first time.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai shows that a country is cracking down on anyone who poses a threat to the authority of cultural purity of the country.
The new Pearl Harbour will not be on a naval or air base if a major war erupts because the drums have recently been beating on the farthest reaches of eastern Europe and the South China Sea.
State Department counselor says that they appeal to leaders to rise above their own self-interest and to keep in mind the broader interest of their county.
President Biden test- drove a Hummer EV while visiting a General GM electric vehicle plant in Detroit on Wednesday.
Linsey Davis spoke with legal expert Channa Lloyd about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the murder trial in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Six civic groups in South Korea have come together to oppose the government's alleged decision to send the personal data of foreign and local travelers to a facial recognition company. The Hankyoreh reported that local civic groups condemned the South Korean Ministry of Justice for sending over 170 million images of foreign and Korean nationals without their consent. The project was called a violation of the country's Personal Information Protection Act by lawyers for a Democratic Society, the Institute for Digital Rights, and the Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea.
The U.N.'s special representative for Afghanistan warned Wednesday that the country is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Deborah Lyons said that the United Nations predicts that over half of Afghanistan's 38 million people will face a food emergency in the winter.
Every president is surprised. Biden has yet to master the ones weighing on his presidency.
The plans by Korea's SK hynix to make memory chips more efficient are in jeopardy because the U.S. government doesn't want advanced equipment used in the process, sources said. One of the world's biggest suppliers of DRAM memory chips that go into everything from smartphones to data centers could be in trouble. Three people with knowledge of the matter said that the company wants to upgrade a mass production facility in China with some of the latest EUV chipmaking machines made by ASML.
Although there have been instances where housing, bonds, oil, and other commodities have performed better than stocks, no other investment vehicle has produced a higher average annual return than stocks. You might be wondering how an investment can make so much money in a short period of time.
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The head of the WTA says he has a hard time believing that an email is from her.
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