COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said on Monday (Sep 5) that a constitutional amendment Bill trimming presidential powers is expected to become law in a couple of weeks. “The new amendment will reduce presidential powers and bring back participatory governance,” Sabry told reporters at the foreign ministry. TheContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu will attend the seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday (Sep 4), becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Russia since the Ukraine war began. Li, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee,Continue Reading
WA: The United States on Fri (Sep 2) introduced a new US$1. 1 billion package of arms in order to Taiwan, in a brand new bid to boost the particular island’s defences amid rising tensions with Beijing . The latest US selling comes a month right after House Speaker NancyContinue Reading
JACOBABAD, Pakistan: Not long ago, Sara Khan, principal in a school for disadvantaged girls in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan, looked on within alarm as some students passed out from the temperature – the city was the world’s hottest at one point in-may. Right now, after heavy monsoon rains submerged largeContinue Reading
They were the first division-level exercises for the 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-US Combined Division, the US military’s only multinational division formed in 2015. ROK are the initials for South Korea’s official name. The drills included live fire from American and South Korean howitzers, tanks, machine guns, and mortars. A-10 attack aircraftContinue Reading
BEIJING: China said on Wednesday (Aug 31) that a condition for the resumption of bilateral climate talks with the United States was Washington dispelling the “negative influence” left by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this month. In response to the visit on Aug 2Continue Reading
PENGHU: Taiwan fired warning pictures at a Chinese jingle which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday (Aug 30) shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan’s military to take “strong countermeasures” against what she termed Chinese language provocations. It was the first time this kind of warning shotsContinue Reading
WA: The Joe Biden administration plans in order to ask the United States Congress to approve approximately US$1. 1 billion arms sale in order to Taiwan, including sixty anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, Politico reported on Monday (Aug 29), citing sources, amid heightened tensions with China. China carried outContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will consider adding vegetables from arch-rival India to mitigate floods fallout, Financial Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday (Aug 29), because food prices have risen significantly. “We can consider importing veggies from India, inch the minister informed local Geo News TV. Chicken and Iran could also be otherContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Two US Navy blue warships sailed by means of international waters within the Taiwan Strait upon Sunday (Aug 28), the first such operation since a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enraged The far east which regards the particular island as its area. The US Navy,Continue Reading