Lacking even the meagre comfort of an after-dinner cognac to calm their nerves, the assembled billionaires listened silently as their guest’s rage washed over the gathering. The Islamic punishment for a mere thief, the Karachi Chamber of Commerce was told in 1986, was the amputation of his hands. The tax-evader,...
About an hour drive west of Shanghai, China’s most affluent county – Kunshan – has accommodated a Foxconn complex in its northern region for 30 years. And in that time, the Taiwanese electronic contract manufacturer has recruited hundreds of thousands of young workers from nearby rural areas to assemble...
All overseas trips arranged by institutes in Chongqing will have to undergo security screening from Friday, when the southwestern megacity becomes the first to implement a local version of China’s newly expanded national anti-espionage law.
The Ministry of State Security in Beijing, China’s top anti-espionage agency, hailed the move as a welcome...
China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), the operator of a Chinese coal mine in Thar block-II, has issued a warning that it will cease coal extraction activities unless its outstanding receivable of $50 million is settled by September 10, 2023.
CMEC conveyed its concerns to Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC)...
Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t coming to India for the G20 summit, US President Joe Biden is ignoring the East Asia Summit in favour of India and Vietnam, and China has put out a map that includes Arunachal Pradesh as well as Aksai Chin as part of its territory. Welcome to the world, it just got a bit...
The British parliament has for the first time referred to Taiwan as an "independent country" in an official document, breaking a political taboo as Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits China this week.
The new language, adopted in a report published Wednesday by the influential foreign affairs committee of the House...
The ghastly attack on the Christian community in Jaranwala is yet another testament to the systemic violence and discrimination faced by religious minorities in Pakistan. Faced with majoritarian prejudice, legal and social exclusion and violent attacks by extremists, their own country has turned into nothing short of an inferno....
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's interim finance minister Shamsad Akhtar on Wednesday said the country's economic situation is "worse than anticipated", according to a report in the Dawn newspaper. This even as protests continued across Pakistan with people demanding relief against surging electricity bills.
The minister also ruled out subsidies to ease the burden...
On August 22, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the forcible separation from their parents and indoctrination of one million Tibetan children, which had also been denounced by the United Nations.
Blinken announced that, “The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions under the...
China betrays an unease in its ties with the Taliban over Uyghur freedom activists finding haven there, even as it sets its eyes on exploiting the natural resources in Afghanistan through business arrangements.
China is yet to formally recognize the Taliban regime in Afghanistan two years after its bloody takeover...
