Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an informal meeting on Monday at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow. The meeting is part of PM Modi’s two-day official visit to Russia, aimed at strengthening the long-standing relationship between the two nations.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Saturday that China’s largest coastguard vessel has anchored in Manila’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea, and is meant to intimidate its smaller Asian neighbour.
aiwan prosecutors said on Saturday they were investigating a senior official and member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who deals with China on suspicion of bribery. He said he had done nothing wrong.
The progress made by India in developing Iran’s Chabahar Port not only holds ’’great value’’ to landlocked Central Asian states but also ’’de-risks’’ commerce between India and Eurasia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday.
New Delhi will host the foreign ministers of the BIMSTEC grouping next week, on July 11. BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation is a seven-member grouping which has Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand as its members.
aiwan’s Coast Guard Administration is calling on China to explain why it seized a Taiwanese fishing vessel, the Da Jin Man No 88, demanding to immediately release the vessel and its six crew members, Taiwan News reported on Wednesday.
The body of South African high jump superstar Jacques Freitag was found this week riddled with bullets near a cemetery in his home country, bringing a weeks-long saga to a conclusion following his June 17 disappearance.
China has deployed its second aircraft carrier ’Shandong’ which was spotted patrolling waters off the Philippine coast as Manila stepped up efforts to assert its claims over a shoal in the disputed South China Sea firmly opposing Beijing’s counterclaims.
Most Taiwanese can visit China with no need to worry and can come ’’in high spirits’’, the Chinese government said, condemning Taiwan for warning its citizens not to go following a threat from Beijing to execute ’’diehard’’ separatists.
China’s treasury futures leapt to fresh highs on Thursday, while long-dated yields skirted record lows, as investors continued to plough money into bonds, shrugging off repeated warnings about risk from the central bank.
Beijing’s aggressive strategies in its peripheral regions often create a false perception of its growing global stature. Far from being considered a superpower, China is viewed as an adversarial power by most, if not all, of its prominent neighbors.
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