China’s real GDP is projected to grow by 5.4 percent in 2023, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) statement said on Tuesday. “The Chinese economy is on track to meet the government’s 2023 growth target, reflecting a strong post-Covid recovery,” said the statement made by the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director, Gita Gopinath, following a visit […]
Read MoreBy Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat and Muktita Suhartono The foreign minister of Thailand said Tuesday that officials he had met in Qatar and Egypt indicated the Thai hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups would be the next to be released because they had nothing to do with the war. Thai officials working to […]
Read MoreBANGKOK : Thailand will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said on Tuesday, in a bid to draw in more tourists as high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese tourists, the country’s top pre-pandemic tourism market with 11 million […]
Read MorePakistani officials reported that more than 100,000 Afghan nationals had returned to their Taliban-ruled homeland in the past two weeks, as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave Pakistan was set to expire by the end of Wednesday. A senior official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, gave the number for people who […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will lead a high-level delegation to Singapore for the 10th Singapore-Malaysia Leaders’ Retreat on Monday (Oct 30). The annual retreat, the first to be held since the pandemic, is a key platform for the leaders of both countries to discuss bilateral issues and explore new areas of cooperation, Singapore’s […]
Read MoreChina’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the “road to the San Francisco summit will not be a smooth one”, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, in a reference to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden. Wang met Biden and his top aides in Washington in recent days, agreeing to […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s former information minister has been arrested and charged with encouraging dissent against the military, the junta said Sunday, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests. In recent months the military, who have faced armed resistance since seizing power in a 2021 coup, have detained a number of trade and commerce officials as the […]
Read MoreTAIPEI, Oct 28 (Reuters) – An estimated 180,000 people marched through Taipei on Saturday in a riotous and noisy celebration of LGBTQ+ equality and diversity at east Asia’s largest Pride march, with Vice President Lai Ching-te becoming the most senior government leader ever to attend. The event took place ahead of Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary […]
Read MoreMalaysia’s royalty on Friday chose an influential sultan from the southern state of Johor to be the country’s next king. The position is largely ceremonial but oversees major appointments such as the prime minister and serves as the head of Islam in the Muslim-majority country and the commander-in-chief of its armed forces. Malaysia is a […]
Read MoreThe US and China have agreed to work together toward an expected summit between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping next month, US officials said on Friday, following hours of meetings between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and senior US diplomats in Washington. In the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister to Washington since […]
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