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The relationship with India is “the most important for the United States in the 21st century,” Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, said last month. President Biden made similar comments earlier in 2022, and the recently published US strategic reviews also talk about the importance of India. The US National Security Strategy, for instance, states that, “As […]

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has finally announced his intention to be the prime ministerial candidate of the United Thai Nation Party. Many questions remain, however, about how he intends to proceed in the run-up to the next general elections. On 23 December, Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha suddenly announced his intention to accept […]

Spatial distribution of estimated urban and rural energy demand In the analysis of the energy demand of Southeast Asia, the study area was divided into two land cover classes: urban and rural. In this study, the classification for these two land cover classes was created by combining nightlight and impervious surface data. Figure 1a depicts that […]

It will be a packed agenda for India this month in its Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) presidency. India will be holding four senior officials’ meetings – SOMs, National coordinators meeting in Kashi (Varanasi) and SCO Film festival in Mumbai. Remember, Kashi is the first-ever Tourist and Cultural Capital of SCO for 2022–2023- time frame. SCO […]

On top of daily scheduled flights to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, Air Azov and Red Wings are delivering almost daily more than 2,000 passengers on six charter flights from various Russian cities. The demand for Russian flights to U-tapao airport, neighboring Pattaya, is being described as insatiable. Almost daily, Air Azov and Red Wings are now […]

(MENAFN- Asia Times) The relationship with India is“the most important for the United States in the 21st century,” Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, said last month. President Biden made similar comments earlier in 2022, and the recently published US strategic reviews also talk about the importance of India. […]

Tel Aviv [Israel], January 6 (ANI): With the severe losses of men and material and the battlefield reverses faced by the Russian Army in Ukraine, Italian geopolitical expert Sergio Restelli warned the hawks in Beijing, who are dreaming of taking over Taiwan by force.Writing for The Times of Israel, Restelli argued that “the era of […]

This aerial photo taken on September 17, 2022 shows a freight train departing from Qinzhou Port in Qinzhou, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Photo: Xinhua South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Thursday sent out its first business delegation in nearly three years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, in a bid to […]

Friday, January 06, 2023 14:31 Nikkei Asia, a news service in Japan, ran an article on January 6 saying that Vietnam’s offshore wind power sparks an influx of foreign investment. Vietnam’s favorable winds are a main draw for investors in offshore wind power development. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) It noted that Japanese and European companies […]

In the run-up to the G20 summit to be held in the Capital from March, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will change around 5,000 road signages in its jurisdiction, converting green ones to blue and painting those near heritage places brown with white letters. NDMC member Kuljeet Chahal said they decided on the changes […]