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New Zealand is well placed to benefit from China's Belt and Road initiative despite not being geographically located within it, says HSBC NZ chief executive Chris Russell. The Belt and Road is China's largest foreign policy initiative. It aims to create a new economic zone based around the...

California and China Have Signed an Agreement to Develop Clean Energy Technology The government of California said on Tuesday it will work with China's science ministry to develop clean energy technologies, cooperate on emissions trading and explore other "climate-positive" trade and investment...

Singapore Singapore has been working with China to promote the Belt and Road Initiative, a senior Singaporean official said on Sunday. Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, aiming at building a...

Soldiers in the north of Cameroon have blocked a highway to demand a government action on their unpaid salaries A Cameroonian army source said late Sunday that about 50 armed soldiers briefly stopped traffic in the road in the Far North region and demanded officials to pay them two years’ worth...

No Easy Options For Perry On Nuclear Infrastructure Last week, the White House released its budget request to bolster domestic nuclear capabilities and defense infrastructure so that the United States maintains its position as the world’s preeminent nuclear force. Over the years, many aspects...

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FILE - U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, center, is greeted by military dignitaries as he arrives at Al-Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2017. PENTAGON — The U.S. military says diplomatic tensions between Qatar and five other Middle East countries has had "no impact" on coalition...

Some kinds of foreign "aid" are more helpful than others. Every year, the United States government doles out $6 billion in military foreign aid to U.S. allies. Granted, much of this aid comes with strings attached -- requirements that the money be spent buying weapons from U.S. defense...

SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday said that the present government had made Pakistan's defence invincible and now it was in strong hands, Geo News reported. Talking to media, he said that armed forces and the nation of Pakistan have the capability to defend...

(Reuters) Four nations cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar today Pakistan has no immediate plans to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, a spokesman for the South Asian nation's foreign ministry said on Monday. The country "has no such plans," the spokesman, Nafees Zakaria, said, following...

PHOTO: ISPR Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa met mountaineer Abdul Jabbar Bhatti on Monday to congratulate him as he became the fourth Pakistani to conquer the Mount Everest peak. The army lauded Bhatti’s outstanding achievement which has made the entire nation proud, a...

The India Today investigation found out how the anti-Romeo squads in Uttar Pradesh not only harass people but also implicate innocents in false cases. HIGHLIGHTS 1 The anti-Romeo squads turned out to be extortion rackets :lol: 2 The rackets work even in the national capital region (NCR) 3...

A cattle market in Savda, India. New regulations on cattle slaughter, issued last month by the central government, would require any person selling livestock to produce a written guarantee that it will not be slaughtered. CreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times MEERUT, India — When Uttar...

Bareilly: In protest against alleged atrocities on Dalits in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur, a Dalit social outfit, Jai Sindhu Sangh, is all set to hold a mass congregation for converting to Buddhism in the adjacent district of Muzaffarnagar on June 14. To increase the community’s attendance...

According to a study, nearly two out of every five children - a total of 689 million children - are classed as... under 18 population lives in acute poverty, reveals a "deeply disturbing" study from Oxford University. Across the 103 low and middle income countries surveyed, children were found...

India fears Chinese encirclement, citing 'overwhelming' Sino presence in South Asia :yahoo::china::pakistan::cheers::smitten::yay: PM By South Asia correspondent James Bennett Posted about 2 hours ago PHOTO: Indian officials are concerned about China's "overwhelming" maritime presence in the...

A Maoist ambush attack on security forces in the forest area near Khamankhol in Kandhamal district in Odisha has left at least one Special Operation Group (SOG)dead and 10 others injured. By News Nation Bureau | Updated On : June 05, 2017 12:01 PM Maoist ambush attack in Odisha kills 1 SOG...

Times Now faces backlash for erroneously calling Kerala 'Pakistan', channel issues apology :yahoo::cheesy::pakistan::china::welcome::lol::cheers: Times Now faced a massive backlash for a headline that said Amit Shah "Heads to Thundery Pakistan". If there is one thing the rest of India can...

Hyderabad: 12-year-old boy immolates self after seeing cartoon character In a tragic incident, a 12-year-old boy died in Venkatapuram in Hyderabad of Telangana while trying to imitate the actions of a cartoon character of a TV show. The deceased has been identified as Jaideep Madugula a class...

CNN Anchor Mocks Indian-American Spelling Bee Champ And Thinks Sanskrit Is Still Widely Spoken In India Ananya and another Indian-American Rohan Rajeev faced each other in the final round last week at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Centre in Maryland. Ananya won on the word...