NSA Ajit Doval with Vietnam's National Defence Minister General Phan Van Giang

Strong Defence Ties, Yet Limited Trade: The India–Vietnam Economic Puzzle

One highlight is VinFast, Vietnam's electric vehicle producer, announcing an investment commitment of US$500 million for a manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu in south India. The company has also engaged its Indian supply chain with more than 300 local suppliers, aligning with the host country’s domestic industrialization agenda.

Sri Lanka’s Indirect Taxes are Among the Highest in the World: Negatively Impacting Middle Class

Sri Lanka is already seeing signs of higher inflation together with expected slowdown in overall GDP growth during next two years. But the worst impact is going to be gradual shrinking of the middle class and increase in poverty.

Building ASEAN–India Integration Through Digitalization: A Bridge to Strengthen Economic Relations with Southeast Asia

ASEAN–India integration through digitalization is therefore not merely a technical choice. It is a strategy to strengthen competitiveness, expand economic self-reliance, and build a stronger position within the Indo-Pacific economic order.

India's Poverty Reduction: But Is It Translating into Shared Economic Prosperity?

India has demonstrated that economic growth, social transfers and improved access to essential services can substantially reduce extreme deprivation. But the next stage will be considerably more demanding. It requires a different pattern of growth: one that creates productive jobs, raises real wages, increases women's economic independence and distributes the gains from growth more widely

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A suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Chinese workers in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, injuring a Chinese national and killing two Pakistani children playing by the roadside, confirmed Pakistani officials

China says willing to develop ‘friendly relations’ with Taliban

China on Monday said that it is ready to develop "friendly relations" with the Afghan Taliban, a day after the Sunni Fundamentalist insurgent group secured a decisively military victory over the now collapsed US-backed Afghan government

Nepal PM to form task force to look into border issue with China

Nepalis Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has assured his party members of forming a task force to look into the border issue with China in the northern Humla district

With China the elephant in the room, Quad officials discuss cooperation on supply chain, critical technologies

In a long-term plan to reduce dependence on China, senior officials of the four Quad countries - US, Japan,Australia and India - on Thursday explored collaboration to ensure “resilient supply chains” and enhance cooperation in areas of emerging and critical technologies

Chinese ambassador meets Pakistan’s Army chief, discusses enhanced strategic collaboration

In a significant meeting, China’s envoy in Pakistan called on Pakistan Army chief and discussed intensified defense collaboration while asserting that Beijing would continue to support Islamabad as a strategic partner. China is Pakistan's largest supplier of arms and its third-largest trading partner

China hosts Taliban delegation, calls group ‘pivotal military and political force’, flags its own terrorism concerns

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met a high-level delegation of Taliban leaders in a strategically significant interaction, as the group took control of a large swathe of territory in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal of foreign forces, raising fear of a military takeover of the Afghan government

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China-Pakistan to cooperate closely on Afghanistan

Pakistan and China said they will cooperate more closely on Afghanistan and called on all Afghan stakeholders to agree on a comprehensive ceasefire and find negotiated political settlement

Pakistan Foreign Minister, ISI chief in China for strategic dialogue, allay Chinese apprehensions on security for CPEC

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi is in Beijing to participate in the third China-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue as the ties hit a bump following the death of nine Chinese workers working on a CPEC project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that is ruled by Prime Minister Imran Khan's PTI party

Chinese envoy expresses satisfaction over Dasu blast probe

With Pakistan including Chinese officials in a joint investigation into the Dasu bus blast that killed 15 people, including nine workers from China, Beijing has expressed satisfaction over the ongoing probe, according to a senior Pakistani minister

Bangladesh says India is welcome to join China-led grouping of South Asian countries

India is welcome to join the newly launched grouping of South Asian countries on Covid-19 and poverty alleviation led by China, said Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momin, adding that the initiative isn’t meant to exclude India

Chinese-owned app TikTok blocked in Pakistan again

For the fourth time in less than a year, Pakistani authorities have blocked access to TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video-sharing platform, for its failure to take down "inappropriate content"

Pakistan includes Chinese officials in Dasu bus tragedy probe

In a decision that shows the extent of Chinese influence over Pakistan, the country's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Saturday that 15 Chinese officials have been included in the ongoing investigation on the Dasu bus tragedy in which 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, were killed

China, Bangladesh underscore need for resuming tripartite talks on Rohingya repatriation; joint vaccine production

China and Bangladesh have agreed to work towards the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to the Rakhine state in Myanmar and underscored the need for resuming tripartite talks on the issue, a Bangladesh government statement said

Maldives President Solih speaks to China’s Xi Xingping days after call with Indian PM Modi

Amid the deepening crisis in the ruling party in the Maldives, President Ibrahim Mohammed Solih on Friday spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping--for the first time in recent years-- and discussed the Covid-19 and “other issues of mutual interest” in a phone call that came two days after his call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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