SYDNEY: Following a ministerial meeting on Tuesday( Apr 18 ), Australia reiterated its commitment to enhancing agricultural ties with China as Canberra applauded efforts to revive barley trade in the midst of diplomatic thawing. Australia announced last week that it had reached a deal with China to settle their disputeContinue Reading
The ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has pledged to intensify the promotion of soft power as another key driver of the economy if the party wins the general election, set to take place on May 14 this year.Continue Reading
In the early days of a brutal 2021 military crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar, members of the nascent resistance movement began asking “how many dead bodies” it would take for the world community to act. More than two years on from a coup that installed military rule in the Southeast Asian country, pro-democracy protesters […]Continue Reading
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The economic and political isolation of Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021 has worsened a humanitarian crisis in the country. The World Food Program projected that between November 2022 and March 2023 the number of food-insecure Afghans would rise to 20 million – 3.2 million of them under the age of five. Some […]Continue Reading
Political tensions between Beijing and Washington have increased again after the Biden administration sanctioned 12 Chinese firms for shipments to Russia and two others for supplying chemicals illicitly used in Mexico to produce the opioid drug fentanyl for the US market. The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) last week amended […]Continue Reading
Afghanistan’s women cricketers have escaped danger, but found only a sporting limbo in exile from their homeland.Continue Reading
Japan hopes to contribute to global rule-making as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hosts the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies in Hiroshima on May 19-21. To do so, it will have to push an agenda that can ultimately shape Chinese behavior for the better, keep a distracted United States locked into a […]Continue Reading
China has previously denied running secret police stations overseas, calling them “service centres”.Continue Reading
Two assaults on Japanese leaders in one year suggests a trend. We need to avoid amplifying the message of their perpetrators, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Gearoid Reidy.Continue Reading