Taiwan scrambles jets as 22 Chinese fighters cross Taiwan Strait median line The latest Chinese mission included 16 Chinese Su-30 fighters and 11 other jets, Taiwan's defence ministry said. World 03 Aug, 2022
Pelosi pledges solidarity with Taiwan as China holds military drills, vents anger China furiously condemned the highest-level U.S. visit to Taiwan in 25 years as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the self-ruled island as "one of the freest societies in the world" and pledged American solidarity. World 03 Aug, 2022
Empowerment of linguistic, ethnic minorities taking forever The new constitution’s provisions related to the empowerment of ethnic and linguistic minorities remain largely unimplemented even seven years after the promulgation of the constitution. Nepal 11 Jun, 2022
Technical support to teachers: Mentoring as an intervention One of the rationales of federalism in Nepal is providing quality public services nearer to the people. As such, the new constitution is the outcome of the people’s aspiration to get basic services promptly through autonomous and self-ruled local institutions. Opinion 22 Apr, 2022
Russia adds troops near Ukraine despite drawdown claims: US As Ukrainians waved flags in a show of defiance of a feared Russian invasion, the United States reported that Moscow had added as many as 7,000 troops to forces stationed along the tense border — a warning that contradicted Kremlin declarations that military units were being pulled back. World 17 Feb, 2022
COVID, China, climate: Online Davos event tackles big themes The coronavirus pandemic has forced the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other heavyweights to go virtual for the second year in a row, but organizers still hope to catapult the world into thinking about the future with a scaled-down online version this week. World 15 Jan, 2022
Biden and Xi meet virtually as US-China chasm widens President Joe Biden opened his virtual meeting with China’s Xi Jinping on Monday by saying the goal of the two world leaders should be to ensure that competition between the two superpowers “does not veer into conflict.” World 16 Nov, 2021
China will uphold world peace, Xi says on anniversary of return to UN Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Monday that China would always uphold world peace and international rules, amid concerns expressed by the United States and other countries over the nation's increasing assertiveness globally. World 25 Oct, 2021
First found in UK and South Africa, COVID variants cross the world LONDON: Two variants of the coronavirus, first found in Britain and South Africa and more transmissible than the original, are spreading across the world. The World Health Organization says there is not enough information to determine whether the...
