UK Lawmakers Say Thames Creditors Have Been Joyriding Family Car
Thames Water’s senior creditors should be blocked from taking full control over the utility, a group of British lawmakers said Friday.
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Thames Water’s senior creditors should be blocked from taking full control over the utility, a group of British lawmakers said Friday.
Tokyo, Sept. 17 (Jiji Press)--A new Japanese political party formed by former lawmakers of the Centrist Reform Alliance reported its establishment to the internal affairs ministry on Thursday. The new Democratic Reform Party is headed by former CRA leader Junya Ogawa and comprises five former CRA members who had joined the CRA from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, including for...
Washington, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese and U.S. lawmakers Tuesday agreed that deterring China is important to prevent a contingency involving Taiwan. The view was shared at a meeting in Washington between a pro-Taiwan group of lawmakers from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, including Sen. Thomas Tillis, co-chair of the Senate Taiwan Cauc...
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers has urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to express support for the International Criminal Court in her address during the general debate at the U.N. General Assembly session Sept. 22. The Nonpartisan Parliamentary Association for Reconsidering Human Rights Diplomacy handed a written recommendation concerning U.S. sancti...
Parliament's lower chamber, the House of Commons, rejected the legislation by 286 votes to 270.
Growing numbers of U.S. lawmakers are calling for new rules to govern AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapidly progressing artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future.
Lawmakers and a government adviser have called for anti-stalking legislation to close a loophole that makes prosecuting repeated harassment difficult in Hong Kong, following the acquittal of a man who followed a teenage girl to her secondary school classroom. Some experts said the government should revisit a proposal for such legislation raised 26 years ago, after the magistrate who acquitted the defendant of a loitering charge also noted the absence of laws to criminalise stalking under certain...