Xi vows to revamp AIIB as model for multilateral cooperati...
July 29 ,2020
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By: CK Tan
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks via video link to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's annual meeting on July 28, 2020.&nbs...
Why India and China’s latest dispute could cost both sides...
July 15 ,2020
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By: Kinling Lo
The stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Himalayas has cast a chill over relations between the two countries and threaten...
Why India’s growing economic reliance on China makes it ha...
July 4 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
India’s economic ties with China run deep, making the recent escalation in political and trade tensions between the two powerful...
Boycotting China over border tensions easier said than don...
June 27 ,2020
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By: Debarshi Dasgupta
A recent Indian television show calling for economic disengagement with China was sponsored by Chinese mobile phone firms - an irony th...
In India, China shipments held up as New Delhi takes steps...
June 25 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Customs officials at Chennai, one of India’s biggest ports, have held shipments originating from China for extra checks, accordin...
India continues to halt the movement of Nepali cargo truck...
The state government of West Bengal in India has halted the movement of Nepali cargo trucks from the eastern border point of Kakarvitta...
Amid COVID-19, locust attack risks famine in Pakistan, Ind...
Still reeling under the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, another severe crisis is staring at Pakistan and India, one with the potent...
Pakistan plans to outsource its major int’l airports in a...
May 21 ,2020
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By: Ashfaq Ahmed
In a major move, the Pakistan government has decided to outsource its major airports in a bid to bring services up to the international...
India plans to slap countervailing duty on Bangladesh jute...
May 16 ,2020
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By: Jasim Uddin
India has initiated an anti-subsidy investigation for imposition of countervailing duty (CVD) on imports of jute products, including ju...
As $297bn apparel market to vanish, Bangladesh also to suf...
May 15 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Relatively lower numbers of confirmed cases or fatalities from Covid-19 offer no reason for celebration for the least developed countri...
Covid-19 triggers Bhutan’s agriculture and forest policy c...
May 14 ,2020
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By: Choki Wangmo
Bhutanese people visiting a vegetable market
Covid-19 has not only sent Bhutanese digging their backyards to grow vegetables b...
Post-LDC Bangladesh to face nearly 9% export tariff hike
May 10 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh is expected to face an average tariff hike of close to nine percent in its preferential export markets after graduating from...
India's services fall in historic slump, threaten deep rec...
May 7 ,2020
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By: Samantha Ho
Activity in India's services sector crashed at a record-breaking rate in April, raising fears of a double-digit slump in its economy as...
India keeps oil at sea as onshore storage hits full capaci...
May 6 ,2020
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By: Debjit Chakraborty and Saket Sundria
Indian refiners are taking advantage of cheap oil to bulk up its supplies even as every corner of the nation's onshore storage tanks fi...
Bangladesh Bank creates money worth over Tk70,000cr to rev...
May 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The Bangladesh Bank has created additional money worth Tk70,794 crore through various refinance schemes and easing regulatory requireme...
Harsh economic inequality emblematic of national capabilit...
April 27 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Economic inequality in India has never been as harsh as it is today.
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani once again overt...
South Asian migrant workers face pandemic deportations
April 25 ,2020
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By: Arun Budhathoki
Qatar’s forceful and illegal deportation of Nepali workers on March 15 and 19 under the pretext of testing them for the coronavir...
India will slip into recession for the first time in 40 ye...
April 24 ,2020
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By: Mayur Shetty
A report by Axis Capital has said that India would go into recession in FY21 – the first time in 40 years because of the lockdown...
Facebook seals biggest deal since WhatsApp with Ambani
April 23 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Facebook will invest $5.7 billion in the digital assets controlled by Asia’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s...
COVID-19: Implementation of Bangladesh’s 10 big projects u...
April 21 ,2020
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By: Anowar Hossain and Md Arifuzzman
The work of metro rail is halted
The implementation of ten big projects in the power and infrastructure sectors has become uncerta...
Coronavirus: Poor income drops 80% in Bangladesh
April 18 ,2020
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By: Md. Kamruzzaman
The average income in the slums of Bangladeshi cities and among the rural poor has dropped by more than 80% since the outbreak of the n...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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