On August 18, 2022, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal left for Iran on a four-day visit. He evaluated the first phase of the Chabahar port's development, connected with the top officials from Central Asian ...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to its category of “high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action” popularly referred to as the “Blacklist”. The statement from FATF stated that Myanmar continuously showed a l...
The U.S. and China have been at odds over security and technology. The recent announcement of several targeted updates to its export controls by the US Department of Commerce has increased tensions even more.
The visit of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan around the first week of August has negatively altered several aspects of the relationship between the United States and China. The visit was deemed to be ...
The rising debt levels in South Asian countries are concerning and can trigger a debt crisis in the region. The countries Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar are facing sovereign debt crises. Sri Lanka is a country that had faced d...
Many South Asian countries are currently experiencing an economic crisis. The economies of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal have been facing severe trouble. The number of South Asian economies in turmoil only increases if we inclu...
The G20 Foreign Minister’s Meeting (FMM) held on 7-8 July 2002 was marked by the theme “Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together”. The meeting was divided into two sessions. The first session held was regarding streng...
The war in Ukraine has raised concerns about the outlook for global financial conditions. The tightening has been most apparent in the Middle East and eastern Europe, where countries with close ties to Russia have seen their equity valuatio...
Last month, Shehbaz Sharif became Pakistan's 23rd Prime Minister after two months of intensive politicking and conflict. His appointment came after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was forced to resign following a no-confidence vote. He ...
According to The New York Times, the European Union is contemplating "smart sanctions" against Russian oil imports, as per the statement by Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission's executive vice president. [1] The EU, on the 25th of A...
The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed the over-reliance of Japanese companies upon China's manufacturing capacities. In the midst of a trade war between the US and China, the latter country is facing a huge blowback from its Asian trading partne...
As the pandemic was wreaking havoc all over the world pharmaceutical companies were racing towards the invention of coronavirus vaccine. The first vaccine that came to the market after completion of the third phase trial was Pfizer/BioNTech...
