Smart cities share stories of digital governance
Busan in South Korea, the first smart city approved by the country in 2018, has introduced innovative services like smart parking and intelligent medicine.
Busan in South Korea, the first smart city approved by the country in 2018, has introduced innovative services like smart parking and intelligent medicine.
Today, trade war and economic rivalry have led to a grand strategic stand-off between the US and China, with the world witnessing a superpower showdown.
The writer says it is no longer the West versus East, with the Middle East picking up the pace.
Despite Beijing’s reaction, US President Joe Biden said he expected a thaw in frosty relations with China “very shortly”.
“It’s a fragile agreement, like glasswork,” a senior official of Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said. “It requires careful handling.”
The risk to humans from bird flu remains low but countries must prepare for any change in the status quo, the World Health Organization has said.
With the advent of generative AI, a dependency on cloud computing and tech giants deepened, leaving the same players in the driver's seat, experts warned.
What backs the dollar is people's trust, but trust is all too fragile given what the US has induced with its currency dominance, the author writes.
History has shown that major technological advancements can be a double-edged sword, capable of bringing both benefits and drawbacks, writes the author.
Global temperatures are poised to exceed the more ambitious target set out in the Paris climate accords, with a two-thirds chance that one of the next five years will do so, said…