BEIJING, May 31- China's factory activity shrank faster than expected in May on weakening demand, heaping pressure on policymakers to shore up a patchy economic recovery and knocking Asian financial markets lower.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to a five-month low of 48.8, the National Bureau of...
ISLAMABAD: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to further exacerbate in coming months if the economic and political crisis further worsens, compounding the effects of the 2022 floods, warns a new United Nations report published on Monday.
The report titled, Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity,...
China's persecution of ethnic minorities culminated in a major and rare moment of backlash in the Nagu town of restive Yunnan province, over 2,400 km southwest of the capital Beijing.
The protests erupted on Saturday after the police began stepping forward to demolish a section of a 13th-century mosque.
The footage,...
Islamabad: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to rise in the next months if the country's economic and political turmoil intensifies, aggravating the consequences of the 2022 floods, according to a new United Nations report released on Monday.
The report, titled 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Severe Food Insecurity'...
A new coronavirus variant has spread in China that will trigger a COVID-19 wave infecting nearly 65 million people every week by the end of next month, June, according to emerging reports.
The XBB, a variant of SARS-CoV-2, is spreading fast in neighbouring China in only six months after Chinese...
India has widened the door for wheat exports allowing Nepal to obtain a 300,000-tonne shipment it had requested in April to plug a gap in domestic output.
According to Indian media reports, India has permitted exports of around 1.05 million tonnes of food grains to Nepal, Indonesia, Senegal and Gambia as...
Pakistan army's capability to secure key assets, including those of Beijing, has been questioned following violent protests that shook the nation after the arrest of opposition leader Imran Khan, The Klaxon reported.
The Klaxon is an Australian investigative news outlet delivering top-quality journalism in the public interest.
Protestors in several major...
Beijing , May 25: China is facing a large income gap between its rich and poor, shows China’s income distribution statistics.
China’s Gini coefficient has grown sharply to 0.466 points in 2021, which is above the warning level set by the United Nations of 0.4. By comparison, countries such as...
Around the time that the F.B.I. was examining the equipment recovered from the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast in February, American intelligence agencies and Microsoft detected what they feared was a more worrisome intruder: mysterious computer code appearing in telecommunications systems in Guam and...
Beijing , May 24: The 2023 Xizang Development Forum, organized by the Chinese government, is currently being held in Beijing. The "forum is nothing more than a farce, serving as a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" to demonstrate its version of development in Tibet.
This forum reportedly aims to showcase the "development situation...
