When the U.S. Navy opened fire on a civilian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, killing three Indian seafarers, one phrase kept surfacing across international discourse — “Freedom of Navigation.”
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The largest e-commerce platform in South Korea, Coupang, was fined a record $408 million by the South Korean authorities for causing the leakage of personal data of over 30 million users.
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The Japanese government plans to establish a defense industry support agency based on the US foreign military sales system.
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A single regulatory notice from Indonesia has sent shockwaves through the Northeast Asian energy market.
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Data from the Korea Tourism Organization shows that the "global consumption of the Korean Wave" by foreign tourists visiting South Korea in April this year reached 1.33 trillion won, a year-on-year increase of 54.6%, setting a new monthly record.
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As the situation in the Middle East escalated and market concerns grew over the rapid rise of technology stocks, Japanese investors significantly reduced their holdings of overseas stocks in May, with the net selling volume reaching a new high in the past five years.
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The "voter shortage" incident in the local elections in South Korea has continued to escalate.
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According to Indian media reports, recently, a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the northern state of Bihar, India, resulting in at least three deaths.
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The average sleep duration of Japanese people is the shortest among major countries worldwide. One fifth of Japanese suffer from insomnia.
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In 2026, Japanese consumers discovered that even buying a banana had become uncertain.
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Against the complex backdrop of blocked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and pressure on the global crude oil supply chain, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) recently issued a statement on the 7th stating that seven major OPEC+oil producing countries have decided to increase their daily crude oil production by 188000 barrels in July. So far, major oil producing countries have announced production increases for four consecutive months.
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