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19 January 2023 by Akhil Kadidal This third prototype of South Korea’s KAI KF-21 jet fighter conducted its first test flight on 5 January 2023. The prototype will explore a wider range of the aircraft’s flight capabilities. (DAPA/KAI) Korea Aerospace Industries’ (KAI’s) KF-21 fighter jet prototypes will be undertaking more rigorous flight-testing to […]

Attachments The Pacific Islands covered in this plan are spread across a vast and diverse region which represents more than 15 per cent of the earth’s surface. Largely made up of small island and archipelago states, these island countries face a range of external shocks which affect the lives and livelihoods of their populations.Their geographic […]

CLIMATE CHALLENGE: The floods that hit the country last year inflicted losses worth a whopping $30 billion, whereas the challenge of immediate reconstruction and rehabilitation needs a good $16bn. While the country is already facing a massive budget deficit, the fact is that the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction cannot be, and should not be, […]

The much-taunted and extremely unlikely post-election scenario of Pheu Thai joining hands with Palang Pracharath to form a government would be historic if it happened. Anything shorter than that will be dismissed by future historians as one normal development of a never-ending “ideological” war. Even a Pheu Thai landslide most likely will not reach the […]

A year after Kazakhstan’s deadly riots, questions persist Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly unveiled a monument to those killed a year ago in the worst unrest in the Central Asian nation’s three decades of independence. Words on the stark concrete “Reverence” memorial speak of the […]

Photo taken on Nov. 14, 2022 shows the national flags of China and the United States in Bali, Indonesia. (Xinhua) The United States and China stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. The world is big enough for the two countries to develop individually and collectively. BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) — China’s Foreign […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo has instructed his staff to monitor the management of subsidized fertilizers to ensure they reach all farmers. “Let there be no misappropriations and deviations, extravagance here and there. Please take good care of them (fertilizers),” he noted while opening the Subsidized Fertilizer Management Training of Trainers (ToT) […]

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ●   Fri, January 20, 2023 The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority was caught off-guard by huge investment interest in the project as multiple sectors swarmed for inquiries. The authorities are currently reviewing 71 letters of intent from domestic and foreign firms that are ready to […]

A mating pair of wild red junglefowl (female on left, male on right).  (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) Red junglefowl are under threat from domesticated chickens that want to mate with them, a new study shows. These wild birds, the ancestors of domesticated chickens, risk losing their genetic diversity because they are breeding […]

image: Red junglefowl are the wild ancestors of the chicken, and the two are known to readily admix. In their study, Wu et al. found evidence of a loss in wild genotype in the red junglefowl across the Anthropocene by comparing contemporary genomes with historic ones from approximately a century ago. In their native range in […]