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Key words : myanmar court hearing
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_02/
Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend her next court hearing, scheduled for later this month, in person.
Her legal team spoke to reporters in Naypyitaw on Monday about the next session scheduled for May 24.
The lawyers said the presiding judge declared that the next session is to be held in person, not by video conferencing, at the instruction of the Union Supreme Court.
Aung San Suu Kyi was detained after the military staged a coup on February 1. The charges brought against her include illegally importing handheld radios.
She has since been held at home and her trial has been held in a teleconference format.
The May 24 hearing will likely give her legal team their first chance since the coup to meet her and check her condition in person.
But this session will reportedly take place at a makeshift court to be set up near her house, and it is unlikely to be open to the public.
Key words : world health technical
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_04/
The World Health Organization has added a coronavirus variant first detected in India to its list of variants of global concern, amid reports suggesting its high transmissibility.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO technical lead on COVID-19, spoke to reporters on Monday about the variant first identified in India, where more than 360,000 new cases are being reported each day.
She said there is some information suggesting that the variant in question has increased transmissibility.
It is the fourth coronavirus variant to be added to the list, after the three first confirmed in Britain, South Africa and Brazil.
Van Kerkhove said her team is collecting more information and will disclose all it knows about the variant on Tuesday.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revealed that the WHO Foundation, which was set up last year, has begun an online campaign to raise funds to help India purchase medical oxygen and medicines.
Key words : nhk opinion
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210510_18/
An NHK opinion poll shows that the approval rating for Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide's Cabinet has fallen to the lowest since its launch last September.
NHK conducted the telephone survey over the weekend on randomly chosen 2,092 people aged 18 or older. 1,248 of them responded.
The approval rating stands at 35 percent, down 9 points from last month. The disapproval rating rose 5 points to 43 percent.
As for government responses to the coronavirus pandemic so far, 33 percent gave a positive assessment, while 63 percent gave a negative view.
Suga has pledged to try to finish vaccinating senior citizens across the country by the end of July.
Nine percent said inoculations are going smoothly, while 82 percent said they are making only slow progress.
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers will decide next month on the number of spectators at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled between July and September.
Asked how the Games should be held, 2 percent said they should take place in the way past Games did. Nineteen percent called for a limit on spectator numbers.
Twenty-three percent supported the idea of holding the Games without spectators while 49 percent said the events should be canceled.
Key words : 11.1 trillion
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_12/
Japanese government debt surged at a record pace in fiscal 2020 that ended in March, as spending rose to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Finance Ministry says the balance of debt stood at about 1,216.4 trillion yen, or about 11.1 trillion dollars, hitting a record high for the fifth straight year.
The figure was up 101.9 trillion yen, or about 936 billion dollars, from the previous year. It marks the first growth of more than 100 trillion yen since fiscal 1997, when comparable data became available.
Ballooning social security costs are partly to blame. Another factor is the pandemic, which prompted the government to issue bonds worth more than 100 trillion yen for the first time in fiscal 2020.
The balance of government bonds stands at 1,074 trillion yen, or about 9.8 trillion dollars, accounting for the bulk of the national debt. The rest are borrowings and short-term financing bills.
With the pandemic still raging, Japan's fiscal situation is likely to deteriorate further. The government's budget for the current fiscal year calls for the fresh issuance of bonds worth 43.5 trillion yen, or about 400 billion dollars.
Key words : panasonic
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_16/
Officials at Panasonic have confirmed they no longer make TV sets in Japan. They say they will focus on overseas production.
The last made-in-Japan Panasonic TVs stopped rolling off lines at a factory north of Tokyo at the end of March. The officials said the small-lot manufacturing was costly, hurting company earnings.
Production will continue in Malaysia, the Czech Republic and other countries.
The electronics giant is also negotiating to outsource manufacturing of small and medium-sized liquid-crystal display TVs to Chinese rival TCL.
The officials say their plant outside Tokyo will be used for developing TV-manufacturing methods and as a base for making replacement parts.
Panasonic started domestic TV production in 1952, when it was called Matsushita Electric Industrial Company. The company's global sales of TVs exceeded 20 million units at their peak in fiscal 2010.
TVs had been a star business for Panasonic until it faced price competition from rivals in South Korean and China. In 2014, the company withdrew from the plasma TV business, which it had invested massively in.
Its global TV sales fell to around 3.6 million units in fiscal 2020.
Other Japanese electronics companies have withdrawn from domestic TV production. Hitachi stopped in 2012.
Toshiba sold its business to China's Hisense Group three years ago.
Sony Group and Mitsubishi Electric continue to make televisions in Japan.
Key words : taiwan participation western
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_01/
Taiwan says it has yet to receive an invitation to the annual general meeting of the World Health Organization, despite growing calls from Western countries for its participation.
Taiwanese foreign ministry spokesperson Joanne Ou revealed in a statement that the invitation has not arrived yet, even though the registration deadline is on Monday.
Taiwan attended the meeting, called the World Health Assembly, as an observer from 2009 to 2016, but it has been excluded since 2017 due to China's objections.
The US administration of President Joe Biden has pushed the WHO to allow Taiwan's participation.
The Group of Seven foreign ministers released a joint statement expressing their support for its attendance.
The spokesperson said Taiwan will fight till the last minute and do everything possible for its right to take part in the meeting.
She also called on WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to take a neutral stance as an expert and extend an invitation as soon as possible, in response to calls from the international community.
Key words : zoo
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210511_07/
A zoo in southwestern Japan has named a newborn monkey after a mythical mermaid-like monster, Amabie, which folklore says repels plagues.
The Mt.Takasaki Natural Zoological Garden in Oita Prefecture keeps Japanese monkeys in a wildlife setting. It invites the public to vote for the name of the first monkey born each year.
Amabie was the name chosen for this year's first monkey confirmed on May 2. The name symbolizes people's wish for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.
Amabie ranked first among more than 600 votes, outnumbering "Gorin," or five rings, proposed in association with the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The female newborn is about 15 centimeters. The zoo says she has a quiet character similar to her mother "Pokopoko."
Zoo guide Kimoto Satoshi said the name carries a heavy burden, but he hopes that Amabie will grow up to be healthy and meet people's expectations.
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