Japan to release oil reserves Monday at earliest
WorldTOKYO -- Japan will release its oil reserves as early as Monday amid soaring crude oil prices, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday.
Patient dies, 2 critical after injections at hospital near Tokyo
WorldSAITAMA -- A male leukemia patient between 10 and 19 died and two other young male patients are unconscious after spinal injections of anticancer drugs at a hospital in the city of Saitama, near Tokyo, hospital officials have said.
UK watchdogs press Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube to block children
WorldLONDON -- Britain's media and privacy regulators on Thursday demanded that major social media platforms do more to keep children off their services, warning that companies were failing to enforce their own minimum age rules.
India warns drugmakers against direct or surrogate weight-loss drug and obesity ads
WorldIndia's drug regulator has warned pharmaceutical companies against direct or indirect advertising of weight-loss medicines, including obesity awareness campaigns that could act as surrogate promotions, as global and domestic drugmakers seek a share of the country's fast-growing obesity drug market.
India ready to support oil markets as IEA agrees record release
WorldIndia said on Wednesday it was ready to support global oil markets in line with the International Energy Agency's release of a record 400 million barrels of oil to try to rein in prices that have soared following the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
'This is me, very pretty': inside a Cambodian cyberscam site
WorldMultilingual scripts, images of young women and timed toilet breaks: a police tour of a newly busted cyberscam operation in Cambodia on Wednesday revealed how fraudsters ensnare foreign victims online.
JR East to monitor Yamanote line pantographs with AI
WorldTOKYO -- East Japan Railway Co. has said it will launch a trial in April of a system that uses artificial intelligence to monitor pantographs on trains running on its busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo to detect defects in train cars at an early stage.
Japan's Asahi Breweries to fully resume shipments in April
WorldTOKYO -- Japanese alcoholic drink maker Asahi Breweries Ltd. plans to resume shipments of all its products starting April 7 after a halt due to a computer system failure caused by a cyberattack on its parent.
Thailand orders bureaucrats to use stairs and work from home in energy saving drive
WorldThai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered civil servants to conserve energy amid an energy squeeze brought on by the conflict in the Middle East, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday, with measures including suspending overseas trips and using stairs instead of elevators.
South Korea finds faulty approvals at airport where Jeju Air plane crashed
WorldSEOUL -- South Korea's transport ministry cut construction costs and approved improper airport safety structures for more than two decades, the state auditor said in a report on aviation safety management after a Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people.
