East Asia Tonight: Japan PM steps down, Thai PM dismissed

On East Asia Tonight (Aug 14), Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida steps down over political scandals and sinking polls; a Thai court removes Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Also, why Malaysia wants in on BRICs, and who is bearing the brunt of Hong Kong’s scorching summer?

[happymelon]

"B " and Kishida promise/$upport to PH gone with the wind ..

[vintran]

He remembers what happened to Shinzo, if he don't fall in line.

[manchu-qumw]

These days and age, corrupted leaders are becoming normal. Self-serving comes first, people can wait.

[EricSeabrook]

It’s great to have good LIVE news feed of ASIA every moment

[rexteo]

Malaysia as British Commonwealth member has Muslim, Chinese and Indian friends in BRICS . Egyptian, UAE.

[Dollarrmb-pkub]

It is so important to have meritocracy and political parties to have strict filter the integrity of candidates.
Otherwise the economy and people live will suffer.
We are seeing Philippines, Japan, SKorea, Taiwan etc as example

[rexteo]

Thai PM dismissed by Court. Msia (ASEAN chairman 2025) has not competitor by joining BRICS, fill-in the Indonesia vacant seat in BRICS invited by China previously (Like Argentina and Saudi). Indonesia is G20 economic member.

[siddd]

Indonesia also lost their most convincing Pres ever had due to the system.
And Singapore too their new generation premier is very young looking.
And unfortunately thai just lost the tallest pm in their history.

[AndreaPucci-uk]

Oh no....too bad....sorry he did not get enough support...😢

[Michaelong]

What's going on today in Asia ? 1 PM lost his job, the other PM gave up his.

[happymelon]

2024-8-14 German direct investment in China has soared. According to data from the Bundesbank, total investment in the first half of 2024 reached 7.3 billion euros, exceeding the 6.5 billion euros for the whole of 2023.

Data also shows that Germany’s direct investment in China was 2.48 billion euros in the first quarter of 2024, and increased to 4.8 billion euros in the second quarter.

[elliekwong]

All Japanese PMs came from families from Imperial Court.

[JsckSzx]

cna messaging will ensure to say: japan PM great man. Thai PM dismissal is wrong.

[michaelwong]

Should have stepped down long ago, after so much damage to Japan

[happymelon]

2024-8-14 TSMC’s U.S. factory has yet to produce a single chip.
Cumulative investment in 4 years reached US$65 billion.

[InnovatorAlvin]

To sound convincing in reporting Thailand's national politics standing in front of the office, he has to dress up by simply wearing a business shirt, rather than a jungle casual top - so CNA, please.

[oppobedok]

Aku uncle saya were greetings from overseas peranakan Chinese merlion mighty 🙂🙏🐼 Peter 60 saya aku

[annan]

Japan is an American colony. It doesn't matter whoever to be PM in Japan.

[RiverbaseinNomore]

When we start to classify who to join a group of consumption we start to devide our country, land slice is the first cause of all population issues.

[happymelon]

2024-8-10 Learn a lesson in India?😂
Foxconn adds 50, 000 workers in Zhengzhou plant as it prepares for Apple’s iPhone 16 launch

The assembler, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, recruited more than 50, 000 workers in Zhengzhou over the past two weeks