A pair of exercises in the Philippines and Japan helped US Marines grow more interoperable with these key Pacific allies. ( read original story ...)
Regional peace, stability at risk as AUKUS hypes Tokyo membership
It is not surprising to see that the US media once again hyped the idea of bringing Japan into AUKUS, but Tokyo has to think twice on whether its gain can outweigh its loss by doing so. The magazine ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Startup Aims To Become Moon’s FedEx, Emulating Elon Musk’s Martian Colony Dreams
Tokyo-based ispace Inc. plans to launch a lunar lander as part of a NASA contract with a variety of government and commercial payloads in November.
Bank of Japan fiddles while bond market burns
With consumer costs spiking in Western economies, the Federal Reserve has been hiking borrowing rates, but in Japan inflation remains relatively tepid and growth anemic. September economic data for ...
Japan Govt Spent $43 Bn To Bolster Yen In October
Japan's finance ministry said Monday it spent $43 billion in October to bolster the value of the yen, which has tumbled against the dollar this year to lows not seen since the 1990s.
Japan spent record $42.8 bln in October interventions to prop up yen
Japan spent a record $42.8 billion on currency intervention this month to prop up the yen, the finance ministry said, with investors keen for clues about how much more the authorities might step in to ...
Meet the zombies of the crypto world
There are around 12,100 crypto tokens that have effectively ceased trading this year, according to a report from data provider Nomics. Check: Crypto live prices These assets without a pulse are the ...
Crypto oracles are a blockchain vulnerability no one’s talking about
Many crypto industries quietly depend on oracles, the data feeds that smart contracts tap into. Startups are challenging dominant player Chainlink, saying they can do it cheaper, more transparently, ...
Apollo holds crypto for clients as it expands in digital assets
Apollo Global Management Inc has begun holding cryptocurrency on behalf of its clients through a partnership with digital asset platform Anchorage Digital, in a major push by one of the world’s ...
Hong Kong’s Crypto-Friendly Plans Get Mixed Reviews From Billionaires And Industry Players
Hong Kong said that it would adopt a welcoming approach to digital assets on Monday as it seeks to regain its status as a global cryptocurrency hub, but the message received a mixed reaction from ...
Hong Kong to explore legalizing retail crypto trades in reversal of previous proposal
Hong Kong has proposed allowing retail investors to trade in cryptocurrencies and crypto exchange-traded funds and plans to conduct pilots in NFT issuance and CBDC.
Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Lost Nearly $190 Million in TerraUSD Drop
Embattled cryptocurrency lender Hodlnaut downplayed its exposure to the collapsed digital-token ecosystem created by fugitive Do Kwon yet suffered a near $190 million loss from the wipeout.
This Japanese startup wants to become the moon’s very own FedEx
An intensifying US-China space rivalry and Elon Musk’s ambitious Mars programme have fired up scores of startups across the world chasing lucrative contracts, as humans race for resources that could ...
Japan has tools to smooth out yen moves, says ex-finance ministry exec
Japanese authorities cannot control yen levels with currency intervention but they have various tools to smooth out volatile moves driven by speculators, former top finance ministry bureaucrat Yasushi ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Monthly Bill for Propping Up Yen Comes to $43 Billion
TOKYO—Japan spent more than $40 billion in October to prop up the yen, an effort that has had some success but remains hampered by Washington’s lack of interest in stemming the dollar’s rise. The ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s JBIC to offer JERA $674 million of loans for LNG
The state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) said on Monday it would offer 100 billion yen ($674 million) in loans to JERA, Japan's biggest power generator, to help secure liquefied ... ( read original story ...)