Male: A presidential election in the Maldives on Saturday could be decisive in determining whether China or India win a competition for influence over the tiny Indian Ocean island chain. Home to about 521,000 people, the Maldives is famous for its sun-kissed atolls and luxury tourist resorts but the rival Asian giants have both invested millions […]
Read MoreBeijing: A part of the Great Wall of China in central Shanxi province has been severely damaged by construction workers who used an excavator to dig through it, reports BBC. Police said two people are under suspicion for attempting to create a shortcut for their construction work. The two individuals have been detained and the case […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision not to attend this week’s Group of 20 summit in India, Beijing says that relations between the two nuclear-armed Asian giants remain “generally stable.” China announced on Monday that Premier Li Qiang, who took office just this spring, would represent China at the Sept. 9-10 meeting in New […]
Read MoreNaypyidaw: Myanmar’s junta will likely hold elections in 2025, party officials told AFP on Tuesday, even as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule. The military justified its February 2021 putsch with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in 2020 elections won resoundingly by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD). The coup […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: It is almost certain that Chinese President Xi Jinping is going to skip the G20 summit in India next week and Premier Li Qiang is set to represent China at the conclave, people familiar with the development said on September 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
Read MoreBy Shehryar Fazli, Senior policy advisor, Asia Pacific region, Open Society Foundations, and author This spring, I spent time with farming families across rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan, the two worst-hit regions by last summer’s super floods that submerged a third of Pakistan, displaced eight million people, and saw millions more lose their […]
Read MoreNew Delhi : Following the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first solar mission. The rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped, a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) website showed. The broadcast was watched […]
Read MoreWestern leaders face a dilemma in dealing with Cambodia’s new leader Hun Manet, eager to try to forge ties based on his education in the United States and Britain but hesitant to be seen as endorsing the undemocratic way in which he came to office weeks ago. “The fact that Hun Manet came to power […]
Read MoreRather than setting an agenda that would put forward the voices of the Global South and the world’s most marginalized, India has used its G-20 presidency for cynically domestic political purposes. By Avinash Kumar and Alena Kahle On September 9, the most powerful heads of state will meet in India for the annual G-20 Summit. […]
Read MoreBy Suvendrini Kakuchi My visit opened the door to the essence of the Japanese spirit that focuses on the simple sensibilities of life. A visit to Kyoto, Japan’s cultural capital embodying more than a 1,000-year history, is always a tough decision but one you will never regret. After all, the world’s third largest economy is […]
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