Phnom Penh: Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged restraint Thursday as China launched massive military drills off Taiwan, warning the situation risked spiraling into “open conflicts”. A furious Beijing kicked off its biggest-ever exercises around Taiwan in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit this week to the self-ruled island. Ministers from the 10-member Association […]
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Pakistan encourages ASEAN member countries to consider investment in CPEC SEZs
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood delivered a keynote address at the Experts Dialogue on “Pakistan-ASEAN: Shared Future and the Way Forward”, co-organized by the Embassy of Indonesia and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI). Noting the steady trajectory of Pakistan-ASEAN relations, the Foreign Secretary underlined the high priority accorded by Pakistan to its relations […]
New opportunities
Sir: Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) constitute an important storehouse of natural resources; and have hence attracted several countries for establishing economic cooperation with them in the past. Recently, a new economic corridor is being proposed for connecting landlocked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent by establishing a new corridor through […]
Light at the end of Pakistan’s economic tunnel
The PTI government has been in power for nearly eight months and so far, the economic indicators are bleak. Pakistan’s consumer price inflation rose in March to its highest since November 2013, adding to economic headwinds besetting Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government. Inflation rose to 9.41 per cent year-on-year, up from 8.21 per cent in […]
Donald Trump’s ‘most awkward’ ASEAN handshake
In the buzz today is the infamous United States (US) president Donald Trump’s ‘ASEAN handshake’ which several global media outlets have termed ‘most awkward’. Watch in the video and let us know through comments if this indeed is the most awkward thing you saw today. Donald Trump was all fingers and thumbs during a carefully […]