Tokyo: Japan’s local parliament began deliberating Tuesday on whether to allow partial restarts of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest, amid Japan’s efforts to boost its domestic energy supply. The plant, located about 300 kilometers northeast of Tokyo on the Sea of Japan coast, was shut down after the tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in

Bangkok: This winter, the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden in Chiang Mai Province will host the Botanic Festival 2026, dubbed “Mother’s Garden.” Scheduled to be the largest botanical event of the year, the festival will take place from December 24, 2025, to January 4, 2026. Visitors are invited to experience the festival daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the