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'Is Singapore my home, daddy?' "Is Singapore my home, daddy?" A seemingly innocent question asked by my 4-year-old son. Early Saturday morning, I brought him to Universal Studios Singapore at Sentosa. There was a performance by street dancers at the Sesame Street area. It was a...

Miss New York is first Indian-American to win Miss America (Reuters) - Nina Davuluri won the 2014 Miss America pageant on Sunday, becoming the first Indian-American to wear the crown, which went to Miss New York for the second year in a row. "I'm so happy this organization has celebrated...

China starts anti-dumping probe into optical fibers from India - People's Daily Online China starts anti-dumping probe into optical fibers from India China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday that it has launched an anti-dumping investigation into single-mode optical fibers...

Best way to approach China's GDP figures: Ignore them! Here's the best way to approach China's gross domestic product figures: ignore them. Things in the world's second-biggest economy are much worse than they appear. Even if we take the 7.5 percent April-June growth rate at face value...

Amritsar village celebrates Nawaz Sharif's victory JATTI UMRA: With Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) emerging as the largest party in the initial results, his native village in India, JattiUmra erupted in jubilations. The residents of Jatti Umra, near Amritsar, are...

Air pollution in Beijing reaches hazardous levels BEIJING: Air pollution readings in China's notoriously polluted capital were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day Saturday, with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to stay indoors. Local...

Reunification of India and Pakistan only solution to Kashmir NEW DELHI: Press Council of India (India) chairperson justice Markandey Katju today said that the only solution to the Kashmir problem is reunification of India and Pakistan under a strong and "modern-minded" government which will...

India’s soft power in world’s hardball capital WASHINGTON: India's growing soft power has got a brief toehold in the world's hardball capital. Madame Tussauds, the famed wax gallery, unveiled on Tuesday the molded likeness of Bollywood's best in an intensely political city that is more...

China may demand more of a say in Hong Kong's daily affairs Alarmed by the recent upsurge in anti-mainland sentiment in Hong Kong, with the more extreme residents openly denying their Chinese identity, Beijing has responded by adjusting some of its policies towards the special administrative...

1.94 crore foreigners visited India in 2011, maximum visitors from US NEW DELHI: Around 1.94 crore foreign tourists visited India last year, with the maximum number of 9.8 lakh arrivals from the US followed by 7.98 lakh visitors from the UK. Bangladeshi tourists formed the third largest...

Strike by China bus drivers tests Singapore's patience SINGAPORE (Reuters) - This week's walkout in Singapore by dozens of mainland Chinese bus drivers over disparities in pay would have been considered small, calm and short-lived in almost any other nation. But the strike, in breach of the...

Taipei protests China’s new passports Taipei joined a number of governments in the region yesterday in severely criticizing Beijing for the inclusion in newly revised passports of an outline of China that includes the entire South China Sea, hemmed in by dashes, as well as depictions of...

Hong Kong and China: Growing apart? Fifteen years after the handover of Hong Kong, the new Chinese leadership in Beijing is getting increasingly nervous about the former colony's independent-mindedness. A senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, Zhang Xiaoming, has accused...

Bad weather drives China wheat imports to 7-year high China, the world’s top wheat producer, imported 524,156 tonnes of the grain in September, up 196 per cent from a year ago, after the domestic harvest was hit by bad weather. September’s imports brought total imports for the first nine...

China losing leverage on Japan as rare earth metal exports decline China can potentially lose its diplomatic “card” when dealing with Japan due to its plummeting export of rare earth materials, the lowest in 10 years. Japan is the largest importer of China’s rare earth metals...

As China woes rise, Japan pulls back from 'world's factory' Almost a quarter of Japanese manufacturers are rethinking their investment plans in China and some may shift future production elsewhere after the spike in tensions between Asia's two largest economies. Almost a quarter of...

China restricts foreigners from visiting Tibet Days after two Tibetans self-immolated in the heart of Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), it was learnt that Chinese authorities have alerted travel agencies that foreigners will not be issued to permits to visit the region...

Indian startups Druva, ITTIAM, Serial Innovations, Mistral, Inttelix Security bagging global customers As US space agency Nasa readies itself for its next mission that will send humans into space, a little-known Indian startup is helping it secure precious data. Pune-based startup Druva...

Russia to build two more nuclear reactors in China BEIJING: Russia and China have firmed up their nuclear cooperation, with Moscow set to build two more high-power reactors in this country's Tianwan atomic plant. Russia had earlier helped China build two reactors in the Tianwan nuclear...

‘Time for New Delhi, Islamabad to rework strategies and tap trade potential' Stating that it was time for both India and Pakistan to re-work their trade strategies, and tap the huge potential, especially in energy, petrochemicals, textiles and cotton, the All Pakistan Textiles Mills...