In Cambodia's general election the ruling party has claimed it has secured all 125 seats. But international critics say the government's crackdown on opponents led to the landslide victory.
A research team from Kyoto University will soon start clinical trials using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells to treat Parkinson's disease.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary said that a proposal to introduce daylight saving time during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games requires careful consideration.
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Key words : Cambodia election secured all
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's party says it has secured all 125 seats in the general election. But international critics say the government's crackdown on opponents has led to the landslide victory.
A spokesperson for the ruling Cambodian People's Party says that, based on the results shared by the election committee so far, none of the other 19 parties will win a single seat.
On his Facebook page, Hun Sen thanked people for choosing the path of democracy. The leader has been prime minister for more than three decades.
Critics have said the vote is a sham and Hun Sen's government is marching down the path to authoritarianism.
There have been crackdowns on media and the most popular opposition party was kept off the ballot. The Cambodia National Rescue Party was dissolved by the Supreme Court in November and banned from running. Its leader Kem Sokha was arrested and charged with treason. He denies the allegations.
Former Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy had called for peaceful protests. He said the vote was a foregone conclusion, and the people of Cambodia should ask the international community to put sanctions on Hun Sen's government.
The White House issued a statement saying the vote was "neither free nor fair and failed to represent the will of the Cambodian people." It added that the Trump administration may significantly expand the visa restrictions already in place on some members of the Cambodian government.
Key words : Insight Cambodia general election
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Key words : research team
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A research team from Kyoto University will soon start clinical trials using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells to treat Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's is an intractable disease that leads to progressive deterioration of motor function due to the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells.
There are estimated to be about 150,000 sufferers of the neurodegenerative disease in Japan. No complete cure has yet been established.
Kyoto University serves as the center of iPS research in Japan.
The team, led by Professor Ryosuke Takahashi of Kyoto University Hospital and Professor Jun Takahashi of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University, has received government approval for the clinical trials.
In the trial, cells generated from iPS cells will be transplanted to patients' brains. The cells are expected to then become dopamine-producing neural cells.
The team hopes the treatment will eventually be widely used and included in the Japanese health insurance system.
Clinical trials using iPS cells to treat a retinal disease have been carried out in Japan. The government has also approved trials to treat heart disease using the cells.
Key words : central bank
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At a 2-day meeting beginning Monday, policymakers at Japan's central bank are expected to analyze the country's persistently low inflation and possible measures to mitigate side effects of its monetary easing policy.
The Bank of Japan started taking large-scale easing measures in 2013 to pull the country out of deflation. The BOJ also set an inflation target of 2 percent.
But consumer prices marked a year-on-year increase of only 0.8 percent in June, despite more than 5 years of monetary easing.
The BOJ's inflation outlook for the current fiscal year is 1.3 percent. Policymakers expect to see it hit 1.8 percent in fiscal 2019.
But many analysts believe the policymakers will once again lower their expectations in a report to be released after the meeting.
The analysts also see the easing measures continuing for a long period, unless the 2 percent inflation target is attained.
Policymakers are worried about possible side effects of the prolonged monetary easing measures, including a possible drop in banks' earnings due to low interest rates. It could also become harder to trade Japanese government bonds if the BOJ keeps buying them in huge amounts.
The BOJ's target yield for benchmark 10-year Japanese government bonds is currently set at around zero percent. But policymakers are now considering allowing the yield to rise somewhat.
However, a perceived shift in the central bank's monetary easing policy could have a major impact on stock and foreign exchange markets.
Key words : chief cabinet
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Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that a proposal to introduce daylight saving time during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games requires careful consideration.
The head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, made the proposal in a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week.
Mori said it should be considered as part of measures against potentially soaring summer temperatures during the Games.
Suga said studying ways to deal with intense heat is an important issue, but added that advancing the clocks would have a major impact on people's daily lives.
Suga said the government has already started working on some measures to deal with summer heat, including moving forward the starting times of some events and applying a special coating to roads in Tokyo to reduce surface temperatures.
Key words : tropical moving southward bringing
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Tropical storm Jongdari was moving southward in waters southwest of Kyushu as of Monday afternoon.
The Meteorological Agency says the storm was 60 kilometers west of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture as of 3 PM, and traveling south at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.
Jongdari has a central atmospheric pressure of 994 hectopascals and is packing winds of 65 kilometers per hour.
Developed rainclouds are hovering in some areas above southern Kyushu, Shikoku and elsewhere. Saito City in Miyazaki Prefecture observed heavy rain of 33.5 millimeters in the hour ending at 4 PM.
Weather officials say parts of Shikoku and southern Kyushu could see more than 50 millimeters of rain an hour. They are predicting 120 to 250 millimeters for those areas in the 24-hour period through noon on Tuesday.
Jongdari is expected to slow down and linger off Kyushu for some time, bringing sporadic rain and gusty conditions.
Officials are urging people to be prepared for landslides, overflowing rivers, floods in low-lying areas, high waves and storm surges.
Key words : communities
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Communities along the Sea of Japan coast are forecast to have another scorching day on Monday after tropical storm Jongdari moved across the country from east to west.
The Meteorological Agency says that on Sunday southerly winds around the storm blew over the mountains, bringing warm winds to areas on the Sea of Japan.
Agency officials call it a "Foehn phenomenon" that pushed up temperatures to 39.5 degrees Celsius in some areas of Niigata Prefecture.
They say the heat wave will continue along the Sea of Japan coast, as well as in inland areas on Monday with daytime highs exceeding 35 degrees, or even reaching 37.
Daytime highs of nearly 35 degrees are also forecast for areas in western Japan devastated by torrential rains earlier this month.
The agency is advising precautions to prevent heatstroke, and is urging residents to drink water frequently.
Key words : disaster Indonesia 16 people
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Tourists stranded on Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's quake-hit island of Lombok began their descent on Monday after police and military personnel removed rocks and sand from trekking routes.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the resort island of Lombok, located east of Bali Island, on Sunday morning.
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency says the quake left at least 16 people dead and 355 injured.
The agency earlier announced that nearly 700 tourists, including 2 Japanese, had been unable to descend Mount Rinjani due to landslides.
Key words : nearly killed in India
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Nearly 570 people have been killed in India following massive floods and landslides caused by torrential rains.
The nation's interior ministry says the rains have continued to batter a vast area spanning from the northeast to southwest of the country since monsoon season began this month.
Numerous homes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh have been washed away over the past 4 days. In the western state of Maharashtra and the southern state of Kerala, villages have been submerged in water and buildings have collapsed in mudslides.
Monsoon-related disasters resulted in the deaths of 569 people across 7 states as of Monday.
Weather authorities say the downpours are set to continue, especially over the next several days.
The central government has evacuated people living near rivers in danger of bursting their banks. It has also suspended railways operating near rivers.
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