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12:32
Issued on: 30/05/2025 - 17:23
12:32 min
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Superstitious tourists from Hong Kong and China have been cancelling their trips to Japan, partly due to a manga – first published in the 1990s – predicting that a major catastrophe will hit the country in July. We take a closer look.
But first, South Korea heads to the polls on June 3 to elect its new president. The snap election comes six months after the now-deposed ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis by declaring martial law. Yuka Royer speaks to Youngmi Kim, Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Edinburgh, about what's at stake in the vote.
Plus, French President Emmanuel Macron wraps up his tour of Southeast Asia with a keynote address at the regional Shangri-La Dialogue security conference. During his tour of Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore, Macron sought to pitch France and Europe as reliable trade and security partners, a "third way" alternative to the US and China.
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