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How will US-China tensions impact global growth? Alastair Newton explains‘The US will continue to inflict pain on China to cover up the failings of the Trump administration’
- Dollar slips as investors focus on recovery outlook
The risk-sensitive Australian dollar shrugged off early pressure and gained 0.4% to hit a three-month high of $0.6703.
- After China's security law, Hong Kongers hit panic button; big spike in immigration inquiries
Immigration consultants have fielded hundreds of new calls since China's legislature - the National People's Congress (NPC) - unveiled the ...
- Global stocks slip as markets await Trump's HK response
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.3%. The Nikkei retreated from a three-month high and, though moves were s...
- Greece to open to tourists from 29 countries from June 15
Visitors will be randomly tested, the tourism ministry said, and the government would monitor and evaluate developments related to the coro...
- How important is Hong Kong to China as a free finance hub?
While China has reformed its markets over the years, over 60% of foreign direct investment (FDI) into and out of China continued to be chan...
- China's virus diplomacy: global saviour or 'Wolf Warrior'?
Attitudes have changed under President Xi Jinping, who has pushed an increasingly confident policy abroad since taking office in 2012.
- Import of rough diamonds unlikely to resume soon
Due to muted global demand, Indian diamond trade is unlikely to import rough diamonds for a month beginning June 1, as the global demand wi...
- India will have to play key role in mass production of coronavirus vaccine: France
Dozens of researchers across the globe are racing against time to come out with a vaccine for coronavirus that has infected nearly five mil...
- China warns US pushing relations to 'brink of new Cold War'
The United States is pushing relations with China to "the brink of a new Cold War", China's foreign minister said Sunday, rejecting Washing...
- EU announces initial funding of €500,000 for India to deal with Cyclone Amphan
In a statement she said, “Dozens of people have lost their lives as cyclone Amphan has come ashore southwest of Kolkata in eastern India an...
- WHO states agree to independent probe of coronavirus response
The US did not disassociate itself from the consensus as some had feared after Washington chastised the WHO on the first day of the assembl...
- Euro maintains firm tone on EU joint recovery fund, yen soft
The dollar also edged higher against the safe-haven yen to edge near a five-week high though it was capped by renewed scepticism on coronav...
- Global CO2 emissions to drop 4-7% in 2020, but will it matter?
In early April, coronavirus lockdowns led to a 17 percent reduction worldwide in carbon pollution compared to the same period last year, ac...
- WHO reports record virus cases as Trump proposes face-to-face G7 summit
Trump, who is seeking to revive the battered US economy and his political fortunes ahead of the November election, again lashed out again a...
- Two UP ministers pitch for attracting investments moving out of China
“Many investors are looking at moving their manufacturing base from China to Uttar Pradesh,” UP’s Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Ente...
- India supports move at WHO to seek origin of coronavirus
The two-day 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the WHO beginning Monday is taking place in the backdrop of growing calls in...
- China announces $2 billion in virus help at WHO assembly
In a speech to the World Health Assembly, Xi said China had provided all relevant outbreak data to WHO and other countries, including the v...
- EU calls for independent probe of WHO's pandemic response
The proposal is intended to initiate "a stepwise process of impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" of WHO's efforts to coordi...
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