World

Washington [US], January 14 (ANI): The India-France strategic partnership presents itself as a pragmatic framework of convergence between the major powers of the East and West, writes Don McLain Gill, a Manila-based geopolitical analyst and author for Washington, D.C. based The Diplomat Magazine. According to Gill, the time-tested India-France strategic partnership continues to gain momentum […]

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week that the United States will likely hit the $31.4 trillion statutory debt limit on Jan 19, forcing the Treasury to launch extraordinary cash management measures that can likely prevent default until early June. “Once the limit is reached, Treasury will need to start taking certain extraordinary measures […]

  A crane places coal in stockpiles at the coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales, in June 2012. DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS Australian exporters are bracing for a rush of new orders as relations between the country and China are expected to return to a normal track. The latest encouragement of warming bilateral relations came from Chinese […]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern side of Penang island, shut up shop for good […]

Since the announcement on 26 December 2022, Trip.com Group has subsequently seen a huge increase in searches and the volume of travel bookings. Flight bookings and destination search trends On Trip.com Group’s leading Chinese language travel service platform Ctrip, between 26 December 2022 and 5 January 2023, search interest for outbound flights from mainland China […]

Ukraine has launched deadly long-range strikes against Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Some of those strikes and other attacks have reportedly been enabled by Russian cell phone use. Those cases illustrate the growing use of cell phones as sensors on the battlefield. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in […]

Uploaded containers are seen at Qingdao Port in Shandong province on Jan 9, 2023. [Photo/VCG] With the global industrial and supply chains going into shock as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has made crucial contributions over the past three years to promote the stability and recovery of the world economy. Those essential contributions […]

Removed from JS body helm Staff Correspondent Mon Jan 16, 2023 07:40 AM Last update on: Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:50 PM Khandker Mosharraf Hossain “> Khandker Mosharraf Hossain Former LGRD minister and Awami League MP Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s fall from grace continued yesterday as he was removed from the post of chief of the […]

Author: Editorial Board, ANU So dominant was the focus on the creep of Cold War dynamics into the geopolitical landscape in Asia in 2022 that the horrors of a hot war have been overshadowed. In Myanmar, the popular uprising against the 2021 military coup has become a brutal civil war in which no party currently […]

More than a year has passed since the formation of AUKUS—a trilateral security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia—and the subsequent diplomatic crisis between France and Australia. After the initial shock provoked by the announcement of AUKUS, France had no choice but to revamp its partnership policy in the Indo-Pacific. The […]