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New Zealand announces climate emergency

December 3, 2020
New Zealand
  • New Zealand has announced a “climate emergency” and promised to make its public sector carbon neutral by 2025.
  • New Zealand now ties up 32 other countries that have declared a climate emergency. They include Japan, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Japan and Australia ink defence deal to counter China

November 19, 2020
Japan and Australia
  • Japan and Australia have inked a ‘landmark’ defence agreement in a bid to counter China’s growing influence in the South China Sea and over the Pacific island nations.
  • The deal named Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) was inked between Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.

Japanese Nobel-prize-winner Masatoshi Koshiba passes away

November 17, 2020
Masatoshi Koshiba
  • Physicist Masatoshi Koshiba, who won the 2002 Nobel prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos, passed away.
  • Koshiba’s most famous contribution involved detecting neutrinos from a distant supernova explosion using a vast detector based in a mine in central Japan.

RCEP: 15 Asia-Pacific countries form the world’s largest trading bloc

November 16, 2020
RCEP
  • 15 Asia Pacific countries have signed the world’s biggest free trade deal, led by China, on the sidelines of the 37th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.
  • The deal called ‘Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)’, is the world’s largest trading bloc, comprising of 10 Southeast Asian countries, as well as South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Malabar Exercise to be held in Bay of Bengal

October 31, 2020
Malabar Exercise
  • The first phase of Malabar Exercise is to be held in Bay of Bengal between November 3, 2020 and November 6, 2020. The navies of India, Japan, US and Australia are to participate in the exercise.

India-Japan Cooperation in ICT approved

October 29, 2020
Indo-Japan
  • The Union Cabinet approved the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) signed between India and Japan on Cooperation in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.