The industrial sector in Pakistan is preparing for more job cuts and a sharp decline in production. As a result of the economic uncertainty that has gripped Pakistan, more than 1 million informal workers in the textile sector are likely to be impacted, National Trade Union Federation Pakistan (NTUF)...
China promptly issued a protest on Monday after a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane flew through the Taiwan Strait in what the Seventh Fleet said was a show of the US “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
Beijing said the US action “deliberately interrupted and undermined peace and...
Lhasa , February 27: A press statement Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) released on 6 February in Geneva has come out with a shocking revelation that the Chinese government is running a chain of residential schools where about a million Tibetan children are forcibly lodged in order to wipe out their Tibetan cultural identity and to brainwash...
Tokyo , February 28: Japan has not yet decided who to represent the country at the Group of 20 (G20) Foreign Ministers' meeting in India starting on Wednesday, reported Reuters citing Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi.
Hayashi was responding to a reporter's question at a news conference on Tuesday about earlier reports...
Nairobi , February 28: Kenya's Trade, Investment and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria wants China Square to stop operations in the Kenyan market, Kenya-based People Daily reported.
The Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in a tweet said that he has put an offer to buy out the lease for the retailer currently trading at Unicity Mall along Thika Road and give...
Washington , February 28: The White House on Monday (local time) gave federal agencies 30 days to purge the Chinese-owned app TikTok from all government-issued devices.
The directive comes after congressional legislation passed in December banned the popular video-sharing app from federal government devices and systems, amid concerns TikTok's parent company ByteDance could...
Washington , February 28: The US on Monday (local time) criticized Russia and China for not offering "firm condemnation" of the Ukraine conflict at the G20 ministerial meeting of Finance Ministers.
At a US Department of State press briefing, spokesperson Ned Price said, "When it comes to the Peoples' Republic China (PRC), that's a question for the PRC - a...
Islamabad , February 28: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project that was commenced a decade ago was held as a harbinger of prosperity for Pakistan. However, seven years later, many projects under the CPEC still remain non-starters while some of those being operational have become liabilities and are incurring...
Balochistan , February 28: Children's education in Pakistan's Panjgur is adversely affected due to a lack of educational facilities. The education system is worst in rural areas of Panjgur, Pakistan vernacular media Intekhab Daily reported citing other reports.
Panjgur is a small town in the Panjgur District of Balochistan.
According to Intekhab Daily, the educational...
New Delhi , February 28: International Labour Organization (ILO) G20 Sherpa Richard Marc Samans, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira and his Mauritius counterpart Alan Ganoo arrived in India on Tuesday to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting scheduled to be held on March 1-2.
The ministers will also attend Raisina Dialogue 2023 in the...
