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BERLIN, Dec 13: The auditor hired by Volkswagen to audit its jointly-owned site in Xinjiang posted a statement on LinkedIn flagging that just two employees supervised the project, in a sign of the reputational challenges posed by undertaking such work in the region. Volkswagen commissioned Loening GmbH to audit its...
BEIJING, Dec 13- Snow, blizzards and plunging temperatures swept northern China in what could be one of its most severe cold snaps in December, spurring authorities in the capital to halt train services, shut schools and tell people to stay home. A mass of cold air drifted into Beijing from...
Sixty percent of British firms feel that a slowing Chinese economy presents a bigger challenge to their operations in the Asian giant than strict COVID curbs in place until late last year, according to the British Chamber of Commerce in China. While the "peak pessimism" recorded during the pandemic is...
Children are the most worthy investment for China's economy to help stimulate consumption and expand domestic demand a Beijing policy institute said, after the country posted its first population drop in more than six decades last year. China, the world's second-largest economy, has struggled to mount a strong post-pandemic recovery...
Old foes China and Vietnam, at odds over claims in the South China Sea, declared on Tuesday they want to boost ties and build a community with a "shared future", just three months after Hanoi upgraded its formal relations with the United States. As Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hanoi...
New Delhi , December 12: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is organising the 15th edition of Capacity Building Senior Officers' Meeting (CBSOM-2023) with the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, from December 11 to 15, 2023, informed the...
Islamabad , December 12: In yet another major victory for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Islamabad High Court (IHC) acquitted PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case on Tuesday. The verdict was announced by a two-judge bench comprised of IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul...
Islamabad , December 12: The Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned the hearing of a longstanding presidential reference on Tuesday, which seeks to re-examine the controversial 1979 death sentence handed down to former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A nine-member larger bench of the apex court, led by Chief Justice of...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , December 12: Twenty-three Pakistani army soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing attack in Dera Ismail Khan's Daraban area, where a group of terrorists targeted a security forces' checkpost. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military's media affairs wing, said that six terrorists launched an attack in the...
Karachi , December 12: A majority of the families affected by floods last year are still awaiting relief from the government, as many are forced to live without houses. The southeastern province of Sindh in Pakistan was one of the hardest-hit areas by the 2022 floods. According to Jang, an Urdu...