June 24, 2025, 1:30 a.m.

After losing the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, the Northern Liberal Democratic Party will face a tough battle in the upper house election next month

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election in Japan has come to an end. The First Party of the People of Tokyo, founded by Tokyo's female governor Yuriko Koike, achieved a victorious start and once again rose to become the largest party in the capital, while the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its Allies suffered a heavy blow.

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The price of rice in Japan has soared, and the catering industry has turned to selling lower-cost pasta products

Affected by the soaring price of rice, price-sensitive Japanese consumers have begun to eat less rice. To relieve business pressure, many chain restaurants and food enterprises have also adjusted their product structures and shifted to lower-cost noodle products.

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Grab's acquisition of GoTo has been blocked, and it is rumored that the Indonesian government has raised a regulatory red light

Grab's plan to acquire GoTo Group (the parent company of the private car-hailing platform Gojek) in Indonesia has become uncertain and is likely to fall through due to the Indonesian government's review requirements for local control and anti-monopoly, casting a shadow over the prospects of the negotiations that could have created the largest platform merger in Southeast Asia.

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Behind the Indian plane crash

On June 12th local time, the thick smoke rising near Ahmedabad Airport in India shocked the world. An Air India Boeing 787-8 passenger plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after takeoff, with only one surviving and all others killed.

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Lee Jae-myung made his first overseas visit to attend the G7 summit, where the leaders of South Korea and Japan held bilateral talks

South Korean President Lee Jae-myeong will hold bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday (June 17) during the Group of Seven (G7) summit held in Canada.

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The Port Klang Authority's increase in charges has sparked discussions: it remains competitive

Malaysia's largest port, Port Klang, will gradually increase container handling fees and storage fees from next month until 2027, which has caused dissatisfaction among the business community.

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The second black box of the passenger plane involved in the Indian air crash has been found

Indian Prime Minister's Chief Secretary Mishra said in a statement on Sunday night (June 15) that the second black box of the crashed Air India passenger plane has been found.

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South Korean President Lee Jae-myeong: The dialogue channels between South and North Korea will be restored as soon as possible

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said that in order to ease military tensions and create a peaceful atmosphere, the government will restore dialogue channels between the two Koreas as soon as possible and resume dialogue and cooperation between the two Koreas.

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Indian plane crash: 265 bodies of the victims and a black box have been found

The Air India crash has killed at least 265 people and a black box has been found.

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Can Yin Xiyue escape from prison?

On the political stage of South Korea, the fate of Yoon Seok yeol is tightly gripping people's hearts.

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