World News by Wild Rose

Only 3 per cent of Hong Kong companies have fully integrated AI into their workflows, with many facing hurdles including resistance to organisational change and outdated digital infrastructure, a survey has found. Consultancy Accenture, which polled 150 companies and released the results on Wednesday, said the survey suggested businesses had a strong desire to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in their work but many struggled to put it into practice. “Hong Kong really has strong AI ambitions...

Survey across three sanctuaries documents 395 bird, butterfly and odonates species, including 24 endemics of the Western Ghats

The survey comprises 22 questions covering various aspects of the lives of coastal residents. Based on the findings, several initiatives are being planned for senior citizens and local entrepreneurs

Hong Kong investors are Asia’s most ambitious stock pickers, but they have much more subdued return expectations than regional peers swept up in enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, according to a survey by a global asset management firm. Some 95 per cent of Hong Kong respondents said they wanted to outperform the market, the highest proportion in Asia, where the average stood at 85 per cent, according to a survey conducted in August by Natixis Investment Managers. Hong Kong investors...

A growing number of Japanese regard the United States as the greatest threat to world peace ahead of traditional rival China, according to a new survey. The annual poll, released by the Japan Press Research Institute on Saturday, found 26.8 per cent of respondents named the US as the biggest threat to global peace. That was up 9.3 percentage points on last year and far above the 6.6 per cent recorded in 2024. Russia came top of the list in 2025 but slipped to third place this year, with 18.3 per...

Survey to identify unused and illegally installed public taps. Corporation to take steps to geo-tag and meter those currently in use

Tokyo, Oct. 11 (Jiji Press)--The gap in physical strength tends to be wider between people who belong to sports clubs at school or in community and those who do not, the Japan Sports Agency's fiscal 2025 survey has found. This tendency was evident mainly among young generations, according to the survey. The survey also revealed that the physical strength of women in their 40s is declinin...

Tokyo, Oct. 11 (Jiji Press)--The newspaper subscription rate in Japan fell below 50 pct for the first time ever, a survey has found. According to the fiscal 2026 survey by the Japan Press Research Institute, the proportion of respondents who have monthly subscriptions for newspapers dropped 0.3 percentage point year on year to 49.8 pct, the first reading below 50 pct since the survey starte...

Tokyo, Oct. 11 (Jiji Press)--A media association survey has found that the proportion of people in Japan who think the United States is the biggest threat to world peace came to 26.8 pct, the second highest after China, cited by 32.5 pct. The rate for the United States rose 9.3 percentage points from the previous fiscal 2025 survey. The figure stood at 6.6 pct in fiscal 2024. In the Japa...

Mainland Chinese prefer coercion over military force to settle the “reunification question” with Taiwan, and their opinion of the US remains low, although they favour engaging with Washington on trade and security. These are the results from the latest survey of Mainland citizens, conducted between April 16 and June 26. This straddled the first summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing but came before the second one in Washington last month. “The...

The survey was jointly organised by the Kerala Forest department, Wayanad Wildlife Division, WWF-India, and the Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology

Hitachiomiya, Ibaraki Pref., Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--The mayor of Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki Prefecture said Wednesday that the eastern Japan city will accept a literature survey for choosing a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants in the country. "After repeated careful consideration, I've decided to accept" the survey, Sadayuki Suzuki told a press conf...

Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--The number of food items in Japan whose prices have been raised or are set to be raised this year stands at 20,187, surpassing 20,000 for two years in a row, a survey by Teikoku Databank Ltd. showed Wednesday. Food makers in the country plan to raise prices for 3,153 items in October, a slight decrease from 3,161 items a year before, according to the Japanese r...

A nationwide survey by the National Task Force found 15% of students felt overwhelmed or distressed and 9% reported suicidal thoughts in the past six months, ahead of its final report due on October 31

Tokyo, Sept. 25 (Jiji Press)--About half of 120 civic groups working in Japan to save and rehome dogs and cats received more requests to take in such animals for protection in the past year than in the preceding year, a private-sector survey shows. According to the survey, conducted by pet care-related company Inuneko-Seikatsu Co., the 120 groups took in a total of 8,718 dogs and cats in th...