Japan's defence white paper highlights China's growing military capabilities in the western Pacific, while Tokyo pledges to enhance its own military strengths and monitoring systems, prompting Beijing to accuse Japan of 'neo-militarism'
Chinese state-owned railway enterprises have developed a new BeiDou-based device to potentially upgrade rail monitoring systems, aiming to improve real-time tracking and security for containers on the China-Europe railway express. The device leverages BeiDou-3 for accurate, all-weather location and status perception.
Industry leaders in Hong Kong are calling for the government to expand its planned mandate for driver-monitoring systems on public buses to other transport modes and upgrade road infrastructure to reduce traffic accidents.
Ministers to mandate use of tools that record individuals’ cumulative exposure to harrowing incidentsPolicing in England and Wales faces a reckoning over the levels of trauma experienced by officers and staff as “trauma tracker” tools are to be mandated by ministers to ensure the psychological toll caused by exposure to death, abuse and neglect is recorded.A Home Office white paper published in January outlined a legislative push to make trauma monitoring systems mandatory across all 43 forces in England and Wales. Continue reading...
Russia has announced three initiatives for Asia-Pacific region approval this year: supporting youth empowerment for energy transition, developing drought monitoring systems in Central Asia using geospatial technologies, and integrating digital solutions into urban transport systems. Russian Deputy FM Alimov confirmed Russia remains one of ESCAP's largest donors, having implemented over 70 technical assistance projects in 15 years.
