A rice export ban would not reduce inflation or meaningfully improve India’s foods security, it would also hit developing countries when they can least afford it, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Mihir Sharma.Continue Reading
Wang, who grows rice and an assortment of veggies, said several of their chickens had passed away. “For 10 days or so, the chicken pen was so hot, even my largest chicken that weighed over 4kg died. ” Without cooling steps, Pay said it only takes a couple of daysContinue Reading
South Korea-based personal products maker Amorepacific will purchase Natural Alchemy, which usually operates the luxury elegance brand Tata Harper, as part of a strategic push to tap into the particular growing North American market. Vermont-based Tata Harper, which was launched in 2010 simply by Tata Harper and her former husbandContinue Reading
PARIS: Rainfall 10 times heavier than usual caused Pakistan’s devastating floods, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday (Sep 1), as it released satellite images of a vast lake created by the overflowing Indus river. Rains, described by United Nations chief Antonio Guterres as a “monsoon on steroids” haveContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor amassed hundreds of expensive Hermes Birkin handbags and diamond jewellery when her husband Najib Razak was Malaysia’s prime minister. Now, Rosmah faces the prospect of joining him in jail for corruption after the Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced her to 10 years in prison and aContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor, the former first lady of Malaysia, amassed hundreds of expensive Hermes Birkin handbags and diamond jewellery when her husband Najib Razak was prime minister. Now, Rosmah faces the prospect of joining him in jail for corruption after the Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced her to 10Continue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court extended interim bail on Thursday (Sep 1) for former prime minister Imran Khan in a case surrounding comments he made about a judge involved in the detention of an official in his party. The extension comes a day after a lower court gave him a weekContinue Reading
Beijing hit back hard against the report – over a year in the making – and maintained its firm opposition to its release, sharing an over-100-page document from the Xinjiang provincial government defending its policies in the region. “The so-called critical report you mentioned is planned and manufactured firsthand byContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has found Rosmah Mansor, wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, guilty of three charges of corruption linked to a RM1.25 billion solar energy project in Sarawak. In handing down the verdict on Thursday (Sep 1), the court sentenced Rosmah to 10 years in jail andContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI) surged to a multi-decade high of 27.3 per cent in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday (Sep 1), as authorities warn massive flooding in the country could exacerbate already skyrocketing prices. Price rises in staples, including vegetables, wheat and cookingContinue Reading