The panel urges the Japanese people to pay more for defences spending.

A government panel on Tuesday encouraged "the entire nation" to pay a greater cost in order to strengthen the country's military capabilities in the face of mounting security concerns, basically asking for tax increases rather than fresh national bond issuances.

The panel ...

Thailand wants Egypt to expedite the Trade Panel MoU process

The department's director-general, Oramon Supthaweetham, reported that Wael Samir, the director of the Asia Division under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MFTI), and she recently met and spoke in Cairo.

Oramon requested Samir to expedite the discussions on the drau...

The silence on climate change is deafening in Australia's election campaign

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered its third and final report on the IPCC's evaluation of climate science the week before the election, indicating the chance of temperatures climbing 1.5C (probably likely) and 2C over pre-industrial levels. It was rather upsetting ...

18 countries have gone green on climate, and they have reaped the benefits

Clean energy advocates and think tanks have long claimed that it is feasible to cut emissions while maintaining economic growth. According to the most recent study from the world's top climate scientists, 18 nations have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions "for at least a dec...

Covestro Thailand’s Goal of Being Fully Circular

Covestro is a leading producer of high-tech polymer materials across the world. The Managing Director of the Thai unit of Covestro, Timo Slawinski, says that the world needs to play a better role in creating a circular economy.

Awareness regarding climate change has caused the global cl...

Kishida urges economic panel to create proposals for his capitalism policy

Fumio Kishida Japanese Prime Minister said that he has instructed the economic policy panel to put together an urgent proposal by early November for the development in Japan.

Highlights

• Kishida asks economic panel to put up proposals for...

Google Meet’s new settings panel offers quick access to effects

Highlights

• This new panel is accessible by clicking on the three dotted      buttons

• This helps in adding effects such as blurred background

Google Meet is launching a new settings panel, this panel offers quick...

CSIRO: AUSTRALIA INSTALLS RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER OF ROOFTOP SOLAR PANELS

Highlights:

• Australia installed the record-breaking number of the rooftop solar panels
• This has been an increase of 28 percent as compared from the number of installations in 2019

According to the Clean Energy Regulator data, which h...

DOCTOR SHAHID JAMEEL QUITS COVID PANEL

Highlights:

• Dr. Shahid Jameel, the senior virologist, has resigned from the forum of scientific advisers that was set by the government of India to detect different variants of coronavirus.
• He has raised concerns regarding the management of the COVID-...

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS FORECASTS OPERATING PROFIT OF $8.3 BILLION IN Q1

Highlights –

• Samsung Electronics forecasts operating profit of $8.3 billion in Q1.
• Samsung projected its sales at 65 trillion won in the January-March period.
• Samsung projects its chip business to log an operating income below 4 trill...

AUSTRALIA’S HOUSEHOLDS COULD BE CHARGED FOR EXPORTING ENERGY FROM ROOFTOP SOLAR PANELS

Highlights:

• The households of Australia can be charged for exporting the energy from the rooftop solar energy
• The recommendation for the charge has been included in a draft deliberation by the Energy Market Commission of Australia

Th...

SAMSUNG DISPLAY TO EXPAND ITS OLED PANELS IN GAMING DISPLAY MARKET

Highlights –

• Samsung Display to expand its OLED panels in gaming display market.
• Samsung Display is currently used in Asus' Republic of Gamers (ROG) Phone 5.
• The display supports a 120Hz refresh rate for fast frame transitions.

PANEL’S CONCLUSION: CHINA AND WHO SLIPPED UP IN SAVING WORLD FROM CONTAGION

• A panel of experts initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has blamed China and other countries for not taking timely action to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier.
• It also put in jeopardy whether the UN health agency should have labelled it a pandemic...

MAJOR TRAIN STATIONS IN JAPAN GET AI GUIDE PANELS FOR A TRAIL PERIOD

Highlights –

• Major train stations in Japan get AI guide panels for a trial period.
• The equipment is said to provide tourists and transfer information.
• The East Japan Railway Co. is aiming to use them to make up for labor shortage.

U.S. BRAND VIZIO COMES OUT WITH COST-EFFECTIVE OLED TV AMIDST THRIVING MARKET FOR LG TV’S

• An OLED TV under US$1,000 has made an appearance in the TV market.
• Vizio, a U.S. TV manufacturer, has started a publicity campaign of a 55-inch 4K OLED TV that is sold at US$900 at Best Buy, the largest retail enterprise in the United States.

The model was sol...

SAMSUNG DISPLAY RECEIVES ELUSIVE US NOD FOR PANEL SUPPLY TO HUAWEI

• Samsung Display Co., a prominent display panel maker in South Korea, has received the elusive nod from the US government to supply certain display products to Huawei Technologies Co.
• This was revealed by sources here Tuesday, amid Washington's trade sanctions against the Ch...

LG DISPLAY BACK FROM THE RED INTO POSTING STRONG REVENUE GROWTH

• LG Display's dedicated approach to normalizing its operations are paying off, as the company posted an operating profit in the third quarter, rounding up seven consecutive quarterly losses, the display unit of LG Group said Thursday.
• The company said it could register an op...

LG DISPLAY AND WALT DISNEY STUDIOS UNITE TO AUTHENTICATE AN IMMERSIVE FILMING EXPERIENCE

• As a major turnaround approaches in terms of third-quarter profit, LG Display, the world's leading display maker, made a revelation that it has   teamed up with Walt Disney Studios' StudioLAB.
• The partnership reminds us of LG Group's display affiliate to s...

LG ELECTRONICS VEERING FROM UNSOUND LCD PANELS TO PROFIT- MAKING OLED

• LG Display, which once basked in attention in the LCD business, it has had to struggle with shifting its business structure from LCDs to next-generation organic light-emitting diodes (OLED).
• Nevertheless, the company's efforts are seeing fruits as the display-making seconda...

SK HYNIX AND SAMSUNG EXCLUDED FROM MEMORY CHIP SUPPLIES TO HUAWEI

• Korean technology companies are staring at an impending sales decline in the fourth quarter bracing for possible sales declines in the fourth quarter, as the United States is set to cut off China’s tech giant Huawei from various chip supplies starting Tuesday.
• The semicon...