Japan pledges ¥2.45 billion to Laos for infrastructure, training
Tokyo has pledged around ¥2.45 billion in aid to Laos for construction of a bridge as well as a study program for Laotians to visit Japan. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida offered the aid in a meeting in Paris on Tuesday with his Laotian counterpart, Thongloun ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will pledge Japan's support for building a key road connecting four African countries when he joins an international conference on African development to be held in Cameroon on Sunday and Monday, a government source said Tuesday. Kishida will likely announce that ...
Japan offers Myanmar minorities aid package to sweeten peace talks
Japan plans to provide ¥10 billion chiefly in grants over the next five years to Myanmar to bolster the living standards of ethnic minorities that have suffered from years of internal conflict in the country, government sources said. Tokyo intends to provide the aid to ...
Five myths about helping out the Philippines
Among common misconceptions about assistance to victims of communities shattered by storms or earthquakes are that locals wait for the international community to come save them and that goods and services are "free" donations.
China may long regret miserly typhoon aid offer
China's stingy donation to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan dramatically undercut its recent regional charm offensive.
The Obama administration will announce curbs on a significant part of nonessential military aid to Egypt within a few days, U.S. officials said Tuesday, marking a shift in American relations with one of its key Arab allies. Officials would not provide figures about how much ...
School building opens for tribal Philippine kids
A new school building funded by the Japanese government was recently opened for children of the B'laan tribe in the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao. Around 80 percent of the 10,000 residents in Mindanao's remote village of San Jose belong to the B'laan tribe, one ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to unveil in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly next week Japan's plan to provide more than $10 million in additional humanitarian aid to help Syrian refugees, government sources said. Japan wants to do its part in achieving a ...
Abe puts best foot forward in Myanmar to tap 'last frontier'
Shinzo Abe spoke of his personal bond with Myanmar during his official visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister in 36 years, as he sought to boost Japan's presence and tap its significant growth potential. Pledging fresh aid worth ¥91 billion and canceling roughly ...
Pyongyang aid hinged to abductees; report hints Noda was told of survivors
Tokyo will never provide economic aid to North Korea unless Pyongyang safely returns all the Japanese nationals its agents abducted to North Korea, the Cabinet minister in charge of the issue said in a written statement Wednesday released after a report surfaced suggesting some ...
Japan builds on Philippine students' dreams
To some people, the seven-classroom facility used by elementary school students in the Muslim-dominated southern Philippine village of Bualan in the town of Pikit is just a building — though evidently a well-built one. But for the students in Pikit — whose education is occasionally ...
