A senior Bangladesh Army officer, Maj Gen Chowdhury Mohammed Aizizul Haque Hazary, on Monday said there is no space for militancy on the soil of Bangladesh and the country has never been a safe haven for militants.
Hazary, the General Officer Commanding of 17 Division and the Area Commander of...
Sri Lanka's diplomatic failure to secure a concrete debt relief framework from China, its largest bilateral lender, is blocking access to desperately needed cash under a $3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
A visit by IMF officials last month highlighted once again the bankrupt South Asian nation's slow...
(New York) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres should press Chinese President Xi Jinping to end Chinese authorities’ crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other serious rights abuses in China during his upcoming visit, Human Rights Watch said today.
Guterres is expected to attend the third Belt and Road Forum...
NEW DELHI: Nepal's very expensive Pokhara international airport is shaping up to be an economic albatross for the cash-strapped nation and has saddled it with debt to creditors in Beijing for years to come.
The fate of the airport strongly parallels that of Gwadar Port in Pakistan which was built under China's Belt and...
A new report from a leading expert on the Chinese government's policies in the Xinjiang region reveals a new program that combines "re-education" with forced labor, aimed at erasing the cultural identities of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
The article is the latest from German anthropologist Adrian Zenz, whose past...
MUMBAI: India has outpaced China not only in economic growth but also in its stock market performance in recent years.
With Indian markets outperforming most peers, the MSCI India index has grown 7.5% this year, while the MSCI China index has declined 7.6%. The gap is wider over five years:...
Tokyo , October 14: The Japanese government has become concerned about its economic dependency on China amid intensifying US-China strategic competition, China's track record of economic coercion and its long-term objectives to secure its own "core interests", Asia Times reported.
Asia Times is a pan-Asia online news platform covering politics,...
Islamabad , October 14: The pen-down strike in Punjab government departments entered the fourth day on Friday as the employees refused to resume work till their demands were met.
On the call of the joint alliance of government employees, teachers, and revenue officials under the platform of the All Government...
Abu Dhabi , October 14: In implementation of directives of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Joint Command Operations of the Ministry of Defence announced the launch of a humanitarian operation in Herat area in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to provide essential humanitarian assistance to...
