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Poland looks to Australia for METS safety and efficiency solutions

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2023 Australian Mission to the Asian Development Bank's Business Opportunities Fair

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Study Australia Education Fairs in South Korea and Japan

In May 2023, Austrade’s International Education teams in South Korea and Japan delivered face-to-face Study Australia Education Fairs for the first time in four years.




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Australia set to welcome back Chinese group tours (Ministerial)

Today Australia has been reincluded on China’s list of approved outgoing group travel destinations.




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Market Summary — Papua New Guinea

Austrade’s ‘market in focus’ toolkit provides information and resources to help you better understand the Papua New Guinea education market.




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A-UKFTA gives UK consumers a taste of Australia’s premium cool-climate wines

The Australia-UK FTA will make Rathbone Wine Group’s award-winning cool-climate wines more affordable for consumers in the UK.




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Tassal reels in export success thanks to trade agreement with India

Tassal is exporting to India for the first time, aided by tariff cuts under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement.




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Boosting opportunities through Indonesian Skills Exchange Pilot Program (Ministerial)

From today Australian and Indonesian businesses and workers will have even greater opportunities to boost their skills and expertise, with the signing of an expanded Memorandum of Understanding on the Indonesia-Australia Skills Development Exchange Pilot.




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Life experience sets tourism workforce up for success

Paronella Park credits its success to support from the local community and employees, particularly its older staff.




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Auxin Solar alleges unfair trade practices from Chinese suppliers, asks Commerce to intervene

Auxin Solar named more than a dozen companies in its petition to Commerce Department officials.




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Duke Energy aims to double renewable energy capacity by 2030

The utility's five-year capital plan totals $63 billion, 80% of which will support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation.




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‘This is punitive’: Kansas Senate committee considers poison pill wind energy bills

Senators heard three hours of testimony from anti-wind sources and just one hour from proponents of renewable energy




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Ethanol isn’t as green as you might think, researchers say

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Work starts on New York’s first offshore wind project

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Verisign Provides Open Source Implementation of Merkle Tree Ladder Mode

The quantum computing era is coming, and it will change everything about how the world connects online. While quantum computing will yield tremendous benefits, it will also create new risks, so it’s essential that we prepare our critical internet infrastructure for what’s to come. That’s why we’re so pleased to share our latest efforts in […]

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NVIDIA and SoftBank Corp. Accelerate Japan’s Journey to Global AI Powerhouse

NVIDIA today announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan’s sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide.





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Give AI a Look: Any Industry Can Now Search and Summarize Vast Volumes of Visual Data

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Austin Calling: As Texas Absorbs Influx of Residents, Rekor Taps NVIDIA Technology for Roadway Safety, Traffic Relief

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Japan’s Market Innovators Bring Physical AI to Industries With NVIDIA AI and Omniverse

Robots transporting heavy metal at a Toyota plant. Yaskawa’s robots working alongside human coworkers in factories. To advance efforts like these virtually, Rikei Corporation develops digital twin tooling to assist planning. And if that weren’t enough, diversified retail holdings company Seven & i Holdings is running digital twin simulations to enhance customer experiences. Physical AI Read Article





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Pacific Leaders Address Key Regional Issues at the 12th Pacific Islands Conference Of Leaders

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East-West Center Convenes ‘Track 1.5’ Trilateral Dialogue of Experts and Officials from US, Japan, and Korea

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Indian Think Tank Leader Samir Saran to Join EWC Board of Governors

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East-West Center, US-ASEAN Business Council, and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Launch New Edition of ASEAN Matters for America/America Matters for ASEAN

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The East-West Center Launches New Edition of Korea Matters for America/America Matters for Korea Publication and Website

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New Project Supports Influencers Promoting Peace in Pakistan

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East-West Center Disease Specialist Warns Hawaiʻi Residents: ‘This is Not the Time to Take Chances’

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East-West Center Hosts Launch Event Featuring US and Mekong Region Government Officials for New Report on Transboundary River Governance

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East-West Center and Doris Duke Foundation Launch New 'Equitable Futures Fellowship'

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Award-Winning Environmental Journalist Alexander Kaufman Receives EWC’s Inaugural Melvin M.S. Goo Writing Fellowship

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Russia’s new post-Soviet rocket takes to the skies

Russia has conducted a third launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket, the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago this month.




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Wreckage of WWII sub discovered

Greek divers have discovered the wreckage of an Italian submarine 80 years after it was sunk by the Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea during World War II.




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Shanghai-Republic of Korea relations get closer through cultural exchanges

Kim Seung-ho initiated the idea to host an exhibition featuring artworks by 30 Chinese and South Korean artists born in 1992, when China and the Republic of Korea established formal diplomatic relatio




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Site of the Korean government in exile a symbol of long friendship

An obscure three-story shikumen (stone-gate) building, tucked away in Shanghai’s busy Xintiandi commercial hub, has become a site of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of South Koreans every year.




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Koreatown restaurant survives wobbles in the K-wave

Lee Seung-woong didn’t have an auspicious start when he first came to Shanghai from South Korea in 2005 and worked in an Italian restaurant.




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Celebrating 30 years of China-South Korea friendship

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Morocco quake survivors focus of rescue effort

RESCUERS raced against time yesterday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades, with nearly 2,500 killed in a disaster that devastated