Divergent perceptions of China impact geopolitics
Countries in the Middle East view China’s growing power and influence in starkly different terms from the US and many of its Western allies. These alternative strategic perceptions are likely to have a decisive impact on geopolitics in the years to come. In some ways, they already are. Western perceptions align US policymakers on both […]Continue Reading
Menindee: Australia begins mass fish death clean-up
Authorities are working out what to do with millions of rotting fish.Continue Reading
‘Floating toilets’ help Cambodia’s lake-dwelling poor
SIEM REAP: Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old daughter dying from diarrhoea after playing in the polluted lake. Her family of 12 is among 100,000 people living in floating houses on Cambodia’s vast inland waterway, and whileContinue Reading
Steel melting plant closed, hazardous isotope detected
PRACHIN BURI: Local authorities closed a steel melting plant in tambon Hat Nang Kaeo of Kabin Buri district on Sunday after they detected radioactive caesium-137 there.Continue Reading
Southeast Asia’s power dynamic is not quite “Game of Thrones”
As jostling superpowers U.S. and China continue to maintain global influence, Southeast Asia’s combined power could put the region in a prime position to rise to the top rungs of political potential, as Australian think tank Lowy Institute’s latest Asia Power Index suggests
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Credit Suisse operations in Singapore uninterrupted by UBS takeover deal: MAS
Customers of Credit Suisse will continue to have full access to their accounts.Continue Reading
Indian High Commission: Man arrested after London protest
Two security guards were injured after a crowd gathered to protest outside the building in London.Continue Reading
Safety pin: A tiny tool Indian women use to fight sexual harassment
Almost every day women in India face sexual harassment in public places. So how do they deal with it?Continue Reading
Pheu Thai ups stakes in race
The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the campaign and to get rid of the pro-Prayut camp.Continue Reading
China’s proposal on Ukraine reflects unity of global views: Xi Jinping
The China proposal, a 12-point paper released last month, represents “as much as possible the unity of the world community’s views”, Xi wrote in an article in Rossiiskaya Gazeta, a daily published by the Russian government, according to Reuters’ translation from Russian. “The document serves as a constructive factor inContinue Reading