As China’s telecom firm Huawei starts manufacturing in India, official media in China raised the red flag, warning that Beijing needs to worry about job cuts due to shifting of production bases as economic rivalry increases between India and the world’s second largest economy. “China needs to worry about effect of industrial transfer to India on […]
As ‘non-violent’ Bhutan pushes out its ethnic Nepali-speaking citizens, other countries bear the burden. KATHMANDU: The 90,000th Bhutanese refugee, living in Nepal, has left for the United States along with her four children for the third-country resettlement. US Ambassador to Nepal Alaina B. Teplitz bid farewell to Sahri Maya Thatal at the US Embassy in […]
ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani Christian teen has been charged with blasphemy over a ‘derogatory picture’ of Islam’s holiest place, according to an AFP report. Nabeel Chohan was arrested for liking and sharing on social media a disparaging photograph of the Kaaba, the building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that Muslims turn and pray to five times […]
Sri Lanka is ‘Malaria Free. ’ Experts and authorities attribute Sri Lanka’s success in eliminating malaria from the island to a concerted effort by multiple programmes acting in concert with a robust national healthcare system. The fight against malaria took 25 years. Hemantha Herath, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s anti malaria campaign, says that case […]
LHASA, (Xinhua) — Prakash, a thangka dealer from Nepal, brought over 1,000 of the scroll paintings to the China Tibet Tourism and Culture Expo, after the 200 thangka he brought last year were quickly snapped up. “China has become such an important market for me that I value the expo more than anything,” Prakash said. […]
New Delhi: “Every Indian is now contributing one US dollar to Afghanistan,” said Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday,(14 Sept) even as he called for greater regional cooperation in South Asia. He also said Pakistan should not feel threatened by bilateral cooperation between peace-loving countries. “We do not have agreed rules of the game […]
How do the poor minorities fare in Pakistan? Can they expect justice from the local police? Here is an incident that will help you form your own opinion: A fourteen year old Pakistani boy was found murdered and hanging from a tree (after having been raped, say locals) in a rural area of Pakistan. Interestingly, […]
Gruesome and horrific tales of butchery and cannibalism that these so-called ‘Islamic State’ actors: what will the UN or the US do to rid the world of this scourge? The Islamic State terror group has now outlawed the burka at its security centers in northern Iraq! The reversal comes after several IS commanders were killed at […]
Hong Kong completed its elections, and the results are out. Some say that the outcome of last Sunday’s election for Hong Kong’s legislature has been a political blow to the Chinese regime, because six political activists who were prominent in the protests in 2014 against Beijing’s anti-democratic strictures have been elected. Anyway, this shows that […]
India, said Hilary Clinton in one of her election speeches, is ‘indispensable’ in South Asia. Why does that statement scare some Americans (and a lot of the Chinese)? Read on. Peter Lee runs the China Matters blog. He writes on the intersection of US policy with Asian and world affairs. An extract of his analytical […]
India said on Saturday (Sept 3) it is lending Vietnam some US$500 million (Indian Rs 38,500 million) to boost defence ties. The latest security deal between the two nations seeks to counter Beijing’s muscle-flexing in the South China Sea, say observers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement during a visit to Hanoi, which has […]
DANG (Nepal), Around 100 churches in Dang district rely heavily on money collected from followers, most of whom are from poor economic backgrounds. The believers have been paying 10 percent of their income ‘willingly’ on a monthly basis as a religious duty. When they are not able to give cash to the churches, they offer […]
