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The UAE and India are in early talks to conduct non-oil trade in rupees, according to Reuters.  The move would signal a shift away from the US dollar, which dominates global commodities trade.  Both countries signed a free trade agreement last year with a goal of increasing non-oil transactions to $100 billion by 2027.  Loading […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) deputy speaker Lestari Moerdijat stated that youngsters are the main actors in sustainable development, and the realization of a global vision of an inclusive and equal world becomes their responsibility. “Youngsters or the younger generation are the main actors in sustainable development. We cannot deny that the global […]

By Maha El Dahan DAVOS (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates is in early discussions with India to trade non-oil commodities in Indian rupees, Emirati Minister for Foreign Trade Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi said on Thursday. The UAE signed a wide-ranging free trade agreement last year with India, which, along with China, is among the biggest […]

Dubai, Jan 19 (PTI) The India-UAE Partnership Summit, which is scheduled to be held here next week, will see comprehensive deliberations on the crucial economic subjects of manufacturing, AgriTech, food processing and fintech, according to an official statement issued by the organisers. The event. which is to be held on January 24, is being held […]

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Chinese Lunar New Year, also widely known as the Spring Festival, falls on 22 January this year. As many locations, including China, have eased numerous COVID-19-related entry restrictions, International SOS emphasises the importance for organisations and their workforces to continue to monitor the situation as COVID-19 continues to circulate. The 40 days around […]

Dusky leaf monkey, Thailand. Image by Erik Karits from Pixabay Well, they got there. After years-long delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a relocation from Kunming, China to Montreal, Canada, and following weeks of late-night negotiations peppered with walkouts and protests, a ‘new deal’ for biodiversity has been struck: on 19 December 2022, the Kunming-Montreal […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Climate change and human activities strongly influence forests, but researchers have not fully understood the pervasiveness of these stressors and how they will shape future forest structure. Forests are expected to be mostly intact in protected areas (PAs) and so-called intact forest landscapes (IFLs). However, human impacts are expanding and intensifying […]

BANGKOK (AP) — A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere. From the beaches of Bali to Hokkaido’s powdery ski slopes, the hordes of Chinese often seen in […]

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2023 / The adoption of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework, signed at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) last month, is without doubt a major milestone, committing the world to halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. This encouraging outcome is the result of a hard-won journey, after a […]

India and Bangladesh need to explore the possibility of making a trilateral partnership with Japan. The two South Asian neighbours should also look at making Bangladesh a gateway to link South Asia and South-East Asia, Bangladeshi journalist and author Syed Badrul Ahsan said in Delhi on Thursday. The noted Bangladeshi intellectual was speaking at a […]