Asia Pacific: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 21, 2025.
MIL-OSI USA: Warren, Reed Press Treasury and DOJ on North Korea’s $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Rhode Island Jack Reed “In the wake of the Bybit hack, it is essential that the United States redouble its efforts to prevent North Korean crypto theft.” WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, […]
MIL-OSI USA: Warren, Reed Press Treasury and DOJ on North Korea’s $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Rhode Island Jack Reed “In the wake of the Bybit hack, it is essential that the United States redouble its efforts to prevent North Korean crypto theft.” WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, […]
MIL-OSI NGOs: Palestinians in Gaza are being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces
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Source: Doctors Without Borders – While the war and blockade continue to wreak havoc on Palestinians’ health and leave them in desperate need of medical care and food, water, and other necessities, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week alone […]
MIL-OSI Russia: Yuri Trutnev held a meeting of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Russian-Chinese Commission on Cooperation and Development of the Russian Far East and the Northeast of China
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: Government of the Russian Federation – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article. Yuri Trutnev held a meeting of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Russian-Chinese Commission on Cooperation and Development of the Russian Far East and the Northeast of China May 20, 2025 Yuri Trutnev held a […]
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: MOFA and MOHW jointly form Taiwan public healthcare team to boost export of smart medical care
Source: Republic of China Taiwan February 14, 2025 No. 039 Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung and Minister of Health and Welfare Chiu Tai-yuan convened a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 14. A decision was made to form a cross-ministerial consultation task force and to invite medical institutions, healthcare businesses, […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Surveys – Poll shows overwhelming majority support increase in spending on public services
Source: Better Taxes for a Better Future As the Government prepares to release a Budget that will deliver further cuts to public services an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders support increased spending on those services, according to a new poll commissioned by the Better Taxes for a Better Future campaign. The Talbot Mills Research poll […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Budget 2025: Nervous wait for thousands of public service workers – PSA
Budget 2025: Nervous wait for thousands of public service workers Cost to New Zealand women of pay equity betrayal to become clear Embargoed 5am Wednesday 21 May 2025 Tomorrow’s Budget will lift the lid on how much further public services will be cut and expose the cost to underpaid women from the dismantling of the […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Animal Rights – Roaring call for Government to halt funding of cruel octopus farming
Source: Animals Aotearoa (New Zealand – May 21, 2025) – As calls to ban the practice of octopus farming continue to gain momentum worldwide, the government of New Zealand is set to make a decision about providing more funding to octopus farming on May 21. 168 organisations are united in strongly advising against wasting any […]
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Foreign Minister Lin hosts welcome banquet for Canadian parliamentary delegation
Source: Republic of China Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin hosts welcome banquet for Canadian parliamentary delegation Date：2025-02-20Data Source：Department of North American Affairs February 20, 2025 No. 043 Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung hosted a welcome banquet on February 17 for a delegation from the Parliament of Canada led by Senator Michael MacDonald, Chairman of the Canada-Taiwan […]
MIL-Evening Report: The public service has a much smaller gender pay gap than the private sector. It’s a big achievement
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock After two years of publishing the gender pay gaps of Australia’s private-sector companies, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released public-sector employer data for the first time. The report shows a stark contrast between the private […]
MIL-Evening Report: For making stars, it’s not just how much gas a galaxy has that matters – it’s where it’s hiding
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Catinella, Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia One of the galaxies mapped by WALLABY: the red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy, overlaid on an optical image showing the stars. […]
MIL-Evening Report: The Queensland melioidosis outbreak is still growing. What’s keeping this deadly mud bug active?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University ap-studio/Shutterstock The outbreak of the deadly “mud bug” melioidosis in north Queensland has not yet abated since it began at the start of this year. So far there have been 221 cases and 31 deaths from the disease […]
MIL-Evening Report: ‘Outdated and irrelevant’: what do young Australians think of their schooling?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jun Eric Fu, Senior Research Fellow, Youth Research Collective, The University of Melbourne LBeddoe/Shutterstock Australia’s school system – and whether it is doing its job – is often under the microscope from politicians, experts and parents. The most recent NAPLAN results in 2024 triggered a wave of […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: The UK continues to call on North Korea to end grave human rights violations: UK statement at the UN General Assembly
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments Speech The UK continues to call on North Korea to end grave human rights violations: UK statement at the UN General Assembly Statement by Archie Young, UK Ambassador to the UN General Assembly, at the UN General Assembly meeting on Human Rights Abuses and Violations in North […]
MIL-OSI: POET Technologies Announces Upsize and Amendments to Previously Announced Offering
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) TORONTO, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Corporation“) (TSXV: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and artificial intelligence markets, is pleased to announce that, further to its news […]
MIL-OSI: Prairie Band Casino & Resort Transitions from Viz Explorer to Quick Custom Intelligence’s (QCI) Enterprise Platform
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quick Custom Intelligence (QCI), a leader in advanced casino management solutions, is excited to announce that Prairie Band Casino has chosen the QCI Enterprise Platform to enhance its data-driven operations. This significant move from Viz Explorer to QCI demonstrates Prairie Band Casino & Resort’s […]
MIL-OSI: Currenc Group Inc. Announces First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) SINGAPORE, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Currenc Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CURR) (“Currenc” or the “Company”), a fintech pioneer empowering financial institutions worldwide with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. First Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights Total Processing Value (TPV) through Tranglo […]
MIL-OSI United Nations: 20 May 2025
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Global leaders reaffirm commitment to WHO with at least US$ 170 million raised at World Health Assembly 2025 pledging event
Source: World Health Organisation World leaders pledged at least an additional US$ 170 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) at a high-level pledging event Tuesday at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly in Geneva. Amid rising global health challenges, leaders reaffirmed their support for multilateral cooperation through these contributions to WHO’s Investment Round (IR). Earlier in the […]
MIL-OSI Economics: Members discuss possible cotton breakthrough ahead of MC14, World Cotton Day 2025
Source: WTO Headline: Members discuss possible cotton breakthrough ahead of MC14, World Cotton Day 2025 Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam, who chaired the 43rd Round of Consultations of the Director-General’s Consultative Framework Mechanism for Cotton (DGCFMC), drew members’ attention to the latest meeting of the Steering Committee of the “Partenariat pour le Coton” initiative, which built […]
MIL-OSI Economics: Plastics Dialogue sharpens focus on transparency and standards
Source: WTO Headline: Plastics Dialogue sharpens focus on transparency and standards Barbados and Morocco delivered opening remarks on behalf of the co-coordinators. They highlighted the successful midterm review in April of the DPP’s work in 2025 and underscored the importance of delving deeper into each focus area to advance potential outcomes. They noted co-sponsors’ interest […]