Referring to some crying for him to turn green for christmas. Thats really front man for. Why arent people more consigned. To the first. This is d w news coming up on the program its a new dawn in japan as the country wakes up to a new emperor we ask whether the change at the imperial palace has consequences for the nation plus. It memoriam relatives of afghans killed in conflict now have a place to honor their friends and families and preserve some of their belongings
and more than just food Singapore Says its Calling Area Tradition deserve u. N. Status we take you to a traditional hawker stall you can decide yourself if the claims holds up. Im melissa chan and welcome to news asia its good to have you with us japan has a new emperor the oxford educated not a hito now sits on the Chrysanthemum Throne the fifty nine year old was presented with Imperial Rigol year at a mourning ceremony a sword and jewel in boxes as proof of his ascendance to the throne the new emperor then delivered hi
over time these relationships are going to deepen and one we haven t mentioned that punches way above its weight, joe, is singapore, this tiger of asia, another strong economy, excellent armed forces, when you put it all together it s a powerful coalition that stands alongside the nato alliance in europe. i feel pretty good about all that. americans should as well. no doubt about that. let s talk about ukraine. about six, seven, eight months ago officials at the pentagon quietly, not to cross diplomats and not to cross the white house, were quietly telling me they were very skeptical that the ukrainians were going to be able to push back from russia from their dug-in positions and said they re just not going to
and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my system, it s not the world i want but it has its appeal. hi, this is singapore. you like it? jam-packed in between the
30 years later, today, there are more drugs around the region. there are. singapore is wealthier. afghanistan and myanmar are among the largest producers of drugs in the world. we are a logistics centre. we would be completely swamped. the undoc. unodc said that, you know, this place is swimming in meth and a record haul of one billion meth tablets were seized in southeast asia. you keep painting. in that situation. you keep painting this apocalyptic vision of what singapore might face. but surely, in the end, you are going to be challenged by the international community on the standards that you set in yourjudicial system. let me ask you which is better. you look at the netherlands the chief of the largest police union talks about the netherlands being a narco state with a parallel economy controlled by drug gangs, shootings and killings. you consider that to be better? you look at singapore.
so let s, let s, let s get real. 0k, you re not going to give me a straight answer, so a final question, and it s based on words. my answer is that we will not choose sides. we will go with what we think is right. kishore mahbubani, a former singaporean diplomat, i m sure you know him well. i do. he says singapore is the most globalised country in the world. how is singapore going to survive a world where globalisation is in retreat? it s a tough one. you know, it s not going to be easy. but at the same time, there are some advantages to. i mean, the situation, the picture about china us, we have spoken about, it s going to become much more difficult, much more difficult to navigate. but at the same time, the pandemic and, you know, the situation in ukraine and so on has shown the importance of governance. so if you look at it the last few years, the way covid has been handled, you know, we have rational