India to oust Chinese phone brands from local markets

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A man talks on his mobile phone while walking on a road in Kolkata, India. Photo: Reuters

JAIPUR – India will likely soon restrict Chinese smartphone makers from selling products in lower-tier local markets, a move that will aim to prop and protect competing Indian manufacturers while applying more regulatory pressure on big Chinese producers like Xiaomi Corp, OPPO and Vivo. The move, which is not yet formally announced but reported in […]

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Hero’s burial for former Philippine leader Fidel Ramos

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MANILA: Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, a soldier regarded as one of the country’s most effective leaders ever, was interred at the National Heroes Cemetery on Tuesday (Aug 9) in a sombre state burial. A low-flying military helicopter dropped flowers as a wagon bearing the flag-draped coffin containing an urnContinue Reading

As Beijing rages over Taiwan, mood on China’s streets muted

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BEIJING: China’s thunderous response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit brought cross-Strait tensions to their highest level in years and sparked an outpouring of nationalist zeal online, but the mood on the streets in mainland China is a little more circumspect. Enraged by Pelosi’s trip, Beijing last weekContinue Reading

Iron Dome passes another Gaza war missile test

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If there is one thing clear as war breaks out in southern Israel and the Gaza strip, it is that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system works and works in spectacular fashion. Faced with the launch of over 70 missiles, many of them simultaneously, the Iron Dome interceptors picked them off quickly, one by one. Iron Dome […]

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