Australian PM launches affordable housing plan on same day he buys A$4.3 million ocean home

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched a new building program to address a critical housing shortage on Tuesday, the same day news of his plans to… Read more

North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean road on its side of border, Seoul says

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ North Korea has blown up sections of an inter-Korean road on its side of the heavily militarized border between the two Koreas, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs… Read more

King Charles III heads to Australia and Commonwealth meeting

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ King Charles III this week begins his first tour of Australia as monarch, reigniting debate about whether the country should sever ties with the British monarchy… Read more

Google signs nuclear power deal with startup Kairos

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ Google on Monday signed a deal to get electricity from small nuclear reactors to help power artificial intelligence. The agreement to buy energy from reactors built… Read more

China’s exports slow sharply in September, adding to worries over the economy

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ China’s exports slowed sharply in September as global demand weakened, adding to worries over how to recharge growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Exports rose 2.4%… Read more

U.S. firms brace for more tariffs as election approaches

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ From holding back investments to considering moving abroad, businesses in the United States are bracing for more economic turbulence as the presidential campaign kicks into high… Read more

Nobel economics prize goes to researchers of prosperity

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ U.S.-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”, the… Read more

Azerbaijani, Russian PMs hold phone talk

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov has held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin. The heads of government explored the… Read more

Speaker of Albanian Parliament informed about Parliamentary Conference to be held in Baku

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ During her working visit to the Swiss Confederation, Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of Azerbaijan’s Parliament, met with her Albanian counterpart, Elisa Spiropali. The sides noted that Azerbaijan… Read more

Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis, Inter-Parliamentary Union explore cooperation

Tokyo, 15 October, /AJMEDIA/ As part of her working visit to Geneva, Switzerland, Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis, met with Martin Chungong, Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union… Read more