Gold mine in the u. S. Turns the Colorado River yellow. And we are in bangladesh where the shrimp industry is booming, but it comes at a high price to the environment. Protesters in japan have gathered outside a Nuclear Plant as it restarts for the First Time Since the fukushima disaster in 2011. The sendai reactor in southern japan is the first to Begin Operating under new safety rules. It marks japans return to Nuclear Energy after the 2011 meltdown at the fukushima power plant. Tom osullivan joins me live from tokyo. Thank you for joining us here on al jazeera. Despite the protests, japan have gone ahead with this. Was it the right thing for them to do . I think that there are several aspects to this. As you said, reactors have been offline for almost two years. So japan has the highest, among the countries, it has the highest level of Energy Dependency in g 7 and oecd. Its the second after lux upburg. Japan needs to improve its energy situation. Nuclear helps to do that and reduces
Im tracy in dubai. Hong kong, where it has just gone midday. To Bloomberg Markets middle east. All right. This, it continues to be dollar story dollar story. Because weve seen the index a little breather today. Still rallying in asian stock continues. Thats exactly right, heidi. The dollar has come off a little today. But over the past few weeks, the rally has really been quite stunning. A chart here. Take a look at this. Weve had a more than two deviation, appreciation in the u. S. Dollar over the past two years. Actually, two standard deviations, two weeks in a row, something thats only supposed 2,000pen about once every times, assuming a normal distribution of probabilities, perhaps we shouldnt be assuming that much anymore. But still, quite stunning. Development that has a lot of impact on the rest of the world, as you know. Yes, tracy. The asianmes to session, we do have quite a bit of upside. In thefluctuations morning. The tokyo session, we had that hit early this morning. 2 10
The carbon green coal technologies. My question is on the shortterm energies and Contingency Planning for an Oil Supply Disruption. The questions are the region prepared in terms of Strategic Oil stocks or oil sharing plans for an Oil Supply Disruption. Is the institutional architecture of the region the various International Forum such as the iea, asean, asean plus 3, as well as the east asia summit. Are they up to the task in terms of the regions institutional framework in dealing with shortterm Energy Crisis such as an Oil Supply Disruption using tools such as oil stocks or oil sharing plants . If not, what can be done . That is a great question and it kind of brings out the reality that simultaneously we all together have to do two things. One is manage the situation in which one exists now and the other is put in place the tools and the institutional and tec technological that can help us to move forward. I would say from the u. S. Perspective, we think that this issue that you ra
Measures, so forth. Theyre talking about the i work for childrens massive implications that they National Health system. See happening. And im wondering if the panel this question is addressed to has any thoughts on this. Dr. Fullman. You mentioned population as one of the things you would have to thanks. Face eventually down the road, double or tripling. Thank you for your question. Has the institute you work with, as i mentioned in my first has it partnered with any Asean Department of health agencies, remarks, aec, asean economic regional, national or local level, with the hope to reduce community, the group asean is the number of consumers and the demand for Energy Consumption . Really influential and very relevant to u. S. Business economies. And so is for all Japanese Business communities. And a you know, the Japanese Companies has made tons of thank you very much. Its very hard for me to address investment, Foreign Direct Investment in asean countries for many, many years in the
He said they used more than 700 twitter accounts to post a slew of messages critical of candidates who ran against park geun hye. She won the vote by a slim margin. The judge said won neglected his duty to maintain neutrality and meddled in the political progress, and he said the former spy chief harmed the countrys democracy. Won has the right to appeal this latest vertical. Members of the Largest Opposition Party new Politics Alliance for democracy want president parks predecessor to apologize for what happened. And they say park cannot hide from this issue. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe is calling on thailands military leaders to restore democracy in the country. He met with interim thai Prime Minister Prayut Chanocha in tokyo to talk about strengthening economic relations. Abe and prayut agreed that japan will help build infrastructure in thailand including Railway Networks and the japanese will assist with the construction of a port facility and an Industrial Park in southern