Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Cambodia from August 3 to 5, attending a series of ASEAN and “ASEAN-Plus” meetings. Wang’s visit comes amid the highest tensions in the Taiwan Strait has seen in over 20 years, with Chinese holding live-fire mil..
Read More »Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing has made its strongest diplomatic effort to try to avert the current cross-strait crisis, but made it clear it will never allow its core interests to be undermined.Speaking in Cambodia where he attended a meeting..
Read More »Amid declining foreign exchange reserves due to rising import bills, Bangladesh has sought a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to economists, who participated in a recent discussion at the Centre for Policy Dialo..
Read More »Sri Lanka’s new president said Wednesday that his government is preparing a national policy roadmap for the next 25 years that aims to cut public debt and turn the country into a competitive export economy as it seeks a way out of its worst economic ..
Read More »U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation landed in Taiwan late Tuesday night, local time, following weeks’ worth of increasingly dire warnings from Chinese officials and media against the visit. Taiwan’s Foreign Minister ..
Read More »As Sri Lanka embarks on debt restructuring negotiations with key lenders in parallel to discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it is useful to consider the seminal role of China, one of Sri Lanka’s top creditors. How China deals with..
Read More »SHANGHAI: Mainland China reported 498 new coronavirus cases for August 1, of which 107 were symptomatic and 391 were asymptomatic, the national health commission said on Tuesday. That compared with 393 new cases a day earlier - 84 symptomatic and 30..
Read More »Chinese soldiers guard an entrance to the military camp with the slogan "Serve the People" in Beijing (AP Photo)BEIJING: A Chinese influencer is under police investigation after a clip of her roasting and eating a great white shark went viral. Foota..
Read More »Reuters photo for representationBEIJING: China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age. The world's most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic c..
Read More »A key force behind the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States, Ayman al-Zawahiri spent much of the past two decades with a $25 million bounty on his head. The bespectacled Egyptian doctor was leader of al Qaeda for the second half of that per..
Read More »Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed by a US airstrike in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has confirmed. Addressing the nation from the balcony off the White House Blue Room, Mr Biden said "justice has been delivered" after authorisi..
Read More »The Foreign Ministry warned that a visit by the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan would "seriously threaten the peace and stability" of the Taiwan Strait if it goes ahead."If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, China wi..
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