2023年6月1日(木)
タイ総選挙 野党２党で過半数
THAI OPPOSITION PARTIES SEEK COALITION AFTER ELECTION WIN
2023年5月16日のニュース
Thailand's two opposition parties are set to begin negotiations to form a ruling coalition. This comes after a stunning victory by the progressive Move Forward Party over parties backed by the military in the general election.
opposition parties
seek
be set to... することになっている
a ruling coaliton 連立政権
ruling
coalition 連立
stunning
Results released by electoral officials on Monday showed the Move Forward Party came first with 152 seats, and the Pheu Thai Party came second with 141 seats.
come first + with ... seats
came second + with ... seats
The Move Forward Party's leader says it is seeking a completely democratic parliament to replace the current military-backed government. The current parliamentary rules were drafted by the military after the 2014 coup.
parliament 議会,
replace ...
draft 立案を作る・立案する
coup
Incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha lagged behind the opposition. His party won just 36 seats. Prayut led the military coup nine years ago.
incumbent 現職者
lag behind
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Thailand's two opposition parties are set to begin negotiations to form a ruling coalition.
Thailand's two opposition parties
are set to begin negotiations
to form a ruling coalition.
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★選挙についての表現
election「選挙」
voters「有権者たち」
vote「投票」
represent「代表する」
elect「選ぶ」
free and fair election「自由で公正な選挙」
democracy「民主主義」
primary election「予備選挙」
incumbent「現職の政治家」
parliament「議会」
general election「総選挙」
ruling coalition「与党連合、連立政権」
> ruling「権力の座にある、与党の」
opposition party「野党」
the oppositionは「野党勢力」
political party「政党」
一般的にはleader「指導者」
electoral officials=> 「選挙管理委員会」
candidate 候補者
campaign (社会・政治・選挙などの)運動,
incumbent 現職の
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Well, when I visited Tailand, I could tell why people call it a land of smiles. The people are so warm and friendly which makes the frequent political turmoil there hard for me to believe. I hope the latest election bring some stability and more happy faces to the coutly.
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2023年5月31日(水)
白川村の合掌造りの家屋で屋根のふき替え
WORLD HERITAGE THATCHED ROOFS REPAIRED
2023年5月14日のニュース
Local community members at a UNESCO World Heritage site in central Japan are repairing the thatched roofs of a 200-year-old temple.
Houses in the Shirakawa Village district are known for steeply pitched tops that must be re-thatched every 20 to 30 years. The work has traditionally been done by members of the community.
On Saturday, more than 130 villagers, including local students, took part. The participants put around 9,000 bundles of grass-like sedge onto the roofs without using machinery. They tied the bundles to the roof frames with straw rope.
(Villager)
“I was impressed to learn that everything was made manually.”
Nowadays, more residents are entrusting re-thatching work to professionals, as members of the community are getting older, and the work requires many people. Saturday's work was the first such re-thatching in five years due in part to the coronavirus pandemic.
2023年5月30日(火)
駐日大使ら ＬＧＢＴ差別反対呼びかけ
ENVOYS TO JAPAN POST VIDEO SUPPORTING LGBTQ RIGHTS
2023年5月13日のニュース
Diplomats from more than a dozen embassies in Japan have expressed support for LGBTQ rights in the country ahead of the G7 summit.
(Rahm Emanuel / U.S. Ambassador to Japan)
“The time is now to ensure that everybody is seen, everybody is heard, and everybody is counted.”
On Friday, the U.S. ambassador to Japan posted a video with messages from 15 foreign missions in Tokyo. Envoys from Germany, Canada, and the European Union spoke in favor of equal rights and anti-discrimination.
(Julia Longbottom / British Ambassador to Japan)
“Under Japan's G7 presidency, we hope to see concrete steps towards equal rights for the LGBT+ community in Japan.”
(Jean-Eric Paquet / EU Ambassador to Japan)
“Gender-based discrimination or discrimination against the LGBTIQ community is wrong. We need good legislation to prevent it.”
2023年5月29日(月)
経常収支の黒字額 前年度の半分以下に
JAPAN POSTS SHARP FALL IN CURRENT ACCOUNT
2023年5月11日のニュース
Japan's current account surplus fell by more than half in the latest fiscal year as the currency weakened and the price of energy imports soared.
The current account is a key indicator of trade and investment with the rest of the world.
The Finance Ministry says the surplus for fiscal 2022 stood at 9.2 trillion yen, or about 69 billion dollars. That's down more than 80 billion dollars from the year before.
The rapid decline of the Japanese currency made imports much more expensive.
The trade deficit was around 134 billion dollars. In yen terms, it was an all-time high.
Meanwhile, Japanese companies investing overseas earned much more in interest and dividends.
This led to a jump in the primary income surplus, which hit a record of about 265 billion dollars.
Major trading houses posted hefty gains thanks to rising prices of energy and natural resources.