New York: The race to replace China’s top spot in emerging market (EM) equity portfolios is heating up, with Taiwan and India running neck to neck as formidable rivals.
Thanks to record stock rallies, Taiwan and India now command more than 19% weightings each in the MSCI EM Index. That...
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of Indians have been duped into working for cyber fraud cells in places like Myanmar, where they are tortured for resistance or have to pay lakhs of rupees to return home.
25-year-old Sagar Chauhan from Lucknow recounts how he was hoodwinked, along with two other friends Ajay...
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from China earlier this week, cutting her trip short. Hasina, who was reportedly supposed to leave Beijing on Thursday (July 11) morning, departed on Wednesday night.
This was Hasina’s fifth visit to China as Bangladesh’s PM and the first in five years. However,...
Washington DC: US President Joe Biden today signed "The Resolve Tibet Act" which states that China's ongoing occupation of Tibet must be resolved per the international law peacefully and not through repression.
Biden's government called on China to resume direct dialogue, without preconditions, with the Dalai Lama, or his representatives,...
China accused NATO on July 11 of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia.
The statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson came a day after NATO labelled China a “decisive enabler” of Russia's war against Ukraine.
“NATO hyping up China's responsibility on...
Faced with a balance-of-payments problem, Pakistan urgently needs to attract foreign investment. During July-March FY24, the country received $1.099 billion compared to $1.217 billion in the same period last year, marking a decline of 9.7% or $118 million. Pakistan has the lowest FDI preference in the region, receiving close...
Observing that China is experiencing a dramatic slowdown in its economy, an influential Congressman on Wednesday said Beijing has two paths going forward -- continue with its aggression against its neighbours or reform its economy and reduce aggression.
"Essentially, China is experiencing a dramatic slowdown in its economy to the...
The representatives of the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) have urged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations to raise the issue and stand against the atrocities inflicted by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) upon the Uyghur community of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
The move by...
New York , July 11: US authorities on Tuesday, made a significant move by prioritising the Aluminium production sector under the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act. This decision comes amidst mounting concerns over human rights violations in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Meanwhile, the European Union (EU) has...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up a high-stakes visit to Moscow on July 9 -- his first to Russia since 2019 -- that highlighted the fine line New Delhi treads as it bolsters relations with Russia while courting closer ties with the West. On the second and final day...
