Rival protests over South Korea’s impeached President Yoon held in Seoul

Yoon’s presidential powers are suspended but he remains in office. He has not complied with various summonses by authorities investigating whether martial law, which he declared late on Dec. 3 and rescinded hours later, constituted insurrection. Demonstrators supporting and opposing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held rival protests several hundred metres apart in Seoul […]

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Dr. Yunus to The Economist: There will be no place for Islamic extremism in Bangladesh

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor to the interim government, has said that there will never be a place for Islamic extremism in Bangladesh again. He assured, “Nothing like that is going to happen. The country’s youth are very energetic. They are very open-minded about religion.” Dr. Yunus said this in a recent interview with […]

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India will not hesitate to take any decision in its own interest: Jaishankar

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has said that his country will not hesitate to take any decision in its own interest and in the best interest of the world. He said this in a video message sent for an event in Mumbai, India on Saturday (December 21). The Indian Foreign Minister said that India will […]

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India’s focus on ‘Act East’ policy, making ‘friends’ of Kim

While the whole world is looking at Central and West Asia, India is focusing on the East with the ‘Act East’ policy. That too silently. Suddenly, India is making a ‘significant’ change in its policy with North Korea. It is learned that the closed doors of the Indian embassy in North Korea have reopened. Experts […]

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China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project to commence on December 27

On December 27, official work will launch the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project. This was announced by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov at the III People’s Kurultai on December 20. When we started this project, there were those who did not believe in it, considering it a fairy tale. However, today you have all witnessed that this is […]

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Uzbekistan imports $1.55 billion worth of gas in 11 months

In January-November, Uzbekistan imported gas worth a record $1.55 billion, the Agency of Statistics said in its international trade report. This is 2.8 times more (in monetary terms) than for 11 months of 2023, when the volume of exports topped 562.7 million dollars. This is also almost 2.2 times more than the total volume of […]

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Afghanistan’s Pomegranate Exports Hit $33 Million, But Challenges Persist

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce reported that in the first eight months of the current solar year (1403), Afghanistan exported over $33 million worth of pomegranates. Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, stated that most pomegranate exports were sent to Pakistan, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and the […]

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