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U.S. 2022/23 exports are lowered 250,000 bales compared with the previous month to 12.0 million bales. This is despite higher U.S. production and is attributed to lower global demand, with global consumption forecast down more than 800,000 bales compared with the previous month to 110.9 million. Major consumers including China, India, and Pakistan are facing […]

Special: Xinjiang The rapid development of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region proves that the region is moving in the right direction, said Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, chairman of the World Muslim Communities Council, during a recent visit to Xinjiang. From 1990 to the end of 2016, separatists, religious extremists, and terrorists have plotted and […]

Shanghai: Sedimentation build-ups in nearly 50,000 large dams worldwide may cause a loss of more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050, leading to global water and energy security crisis, according to United Nations research. Dam capacity is expected to drop from 6 trillion cubic metres (cu m) to 4.655 trillion cu m […]

New Delhi: Delegates and participants arriving in India to participate in G20 events in the country will be exempted from the 2 percent random Covid testing rule for international arrivals, according to a top government official. “This has been noted on the request of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to the Ministry of Health […]

Jakarta, Jan 13 (IANS) Indonesia has already begun its preparation for hosting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which will take place in the country’s eastern province of East Nusa Tenggara in May, with the theme of “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth”. As Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia has taken over the chairmanship […]

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New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): The world is going through multifarious crisis and India is not an exception. India’s current presidency at the G20 is going to offer it the platform to resolve many such issues at the global level. United Nations Resident Coordinator in India, Shombi Sharp, discussed the role of India in […]

The US should speed up building “guardrails” into its ties with China in 2023, the top White House official on Asia policy said Thursday, while one analyst anticipated a year of “co-opetition” between the two nations. Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to US President Joe Biden and coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the National Security Council, […]

HRW urges Marcos to end war on drugs Published on: Friday, January 13, 2023 By: Bernama Text Size: Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents and police arrest an alleged drug dealer during a raid in Maharlika Village, Taguig, south of Manila. (AFP) MANILA: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to […]

Delegates and participants arriving in India to participate in G20 events in the country will be exempted from the 2 per cent random Covid testing rule for international arrivals, according to a top government official. “This has been noted on the request of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to the Ministry of Health Family […]