World / Politics Aug 25, 2018
Trump cuts more than $200 million in U.S. aid to Palestinians
The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said Friday, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership. A senior State Department official said without elaborating that the funds, originally planned for programs in the West ...
Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Aug 21, 2018
As food crisis threatens, humanitarian aid for North Korea grinds to a halt
by Hyonhee Shin
Humanitarian aid for North Korea has nearly ground to a halt this year as the United States steps up the enforcement of sanctions, despite warnings of a potential food crisis and improving relations with Pyongyang, aid groups say. International sanctions imposed over North Korea's nuclear ...
Commentary / World Aug 14, 2018
Why charity for the poor isn't futile
by Peter Singer
While we wait for politicians to act, it is important to concentrate our spare resources on effective aid that helps poor people lead the best lives they can.
Asia Pacific Jul 22, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Senegal on Saturday to strengthen economic ties with Africa, a continent already awash with cheap Chinese loans in exchange for minerals and huge construction projects. Xi arrived in Senegal on Saturday for a two-day visit to ...
Asia Pacific Jul 11, 2018
'Clear evidence of humanitarian need' in North Korea, U.N. aid chief says
There is "very clear evidence of humanitarian need" in North Korea, the top U.N. aid official has said during the first visit of its kind to the isolated country since 2011. U.N. Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock arrived in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on ...
Asia Pacific Jul 9, 2018
Economist who fled North Korea says South's plan falls short
South Korea's blueprint for railroad links through North Korea to China and Russia falls well short of Kim Jong Un's vision for developing his impoverished nation, according to a defector who provides economic research to the government in Seoul. While President Moon Jae-in's so-called "three-belts" ...
National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Jun 2, 2018
Japan Times 1918: Teacher's house stoned after racial epithet
Twenty-three students of the Odate Middle School in Akita Prefecture in northwestern Japan attacked the house of Mr. Kishida, instructor of natural history in the school, twice on the night of June 2, throwing stones and destroying the windows and paper slides of the ...
National Mar 24, 2018
Japan's help improving regional connectivity hailed at Mekong forum
Japan's economic and technical support for building bridges and improving roads and other transport infrastructure around Indochina was praised at a meeting of the Mekong-Japan Cooperation Forum in Cambodia on Friday. A succession of speakers pointed to projects built with Japanese aid which play vital ...
Asia Pacific Mar 13, 2018
China plans to set up an international development cooperation agency, according to a parliament document released Tuesday, to better coordinate its foreign aid program. The new agency will be responsible for forming policies on foreign aid, as well as granting aid and overseeing its implementation, ...
National Mar 6, 2018
Tokyo aid helps Malaysia solve Japanese-language teacher shortage
Japan has granted a Malaysian school $68,985 in financial aid for teacher training to ease a shortage of Japanese-language instructors in the nation. The funding via the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia will be used to upgrade laboratories and training rooms as well as to ...
World Jan 6, 2018
The U.S. has delayed paying about $125 million to the United Nations agency that serves Palestinian refugees, said two people familiar with the matter, after President Donald Trump vented his frustration about getting no "respect" or help in the peace process despite American funding. The ...