World economy

12 Jun 2018

While there is no formal agreement between the two Koreas and their backers to end the 65-year-long conflict, the two sides have agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action and repatriate them

11 Jun 2018

India continues to oppose the project as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), an important component of the BRI, goes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

11 Jun 2018

In scenes, remarks, and tweets that are unprecedented in the diplomatic world, Trump brought the US-led alliance of advanced economies close to a rupture, refusing to sign a joint communique with the group and calling Trudeau a “dishonest liar”

08 Jun 2018

The United States is evacuating several of its diplomats from China following the mass incidence of a mysterious “sound attack” that affects brain functioning

07 Jun 2018

05 Jun 2018

05 Jun 2018

04 Jun 2018

31 May 2018

Intensifying river floods could lead to regional production losses worldwide caused by global warming. This might not only hamper local economies around the globe — the effects might also propagate through the global network of trade and supply chains

30 May 2018

30 May 2018

In November last year, Nepal had scrapped a $2.5 billion deal with China Gezhouba Group Corporation to build a 1,200 MW plant on the Budhi Gandaki River, which was awarded by the earlier Maoist-led government without any competitive bidding

30 May 2018

The US action comes a week after China and the US announced measures to avert a trade war, under which Beijing agreed to "significantly increase" its purchases of American goods and services to reduce China’s $375 billion trade surplus

29 May 2018

28 May 2018

Trump said North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial nation one day and that Kim Jong Un too agrees on this

26 May 2018

Every step of a process, with all the associated data and documents, can be securely and irreversibly captured in a blockchain, which is ideal for the international trade in goods

25 May 2018

24 May 2018

Taxing MNEs' profits, as currently done, wastes resources and is detrimental to global welfare, a new study argues, and suggests we should, instead, tax dividends and sales

22 May 2018

At present, foreigners generally cannot own more than 49 per cent of any UAE firm unless it is incorporated in a special "free zone"

22 May 2018

At present, foreigners generally cannot own more than 49 per cent of any UAE firm unless it is incorporated in a special "free zone"

21 May 2018

While there is no specific deal, the two sides agreed to stop “slapping tariffs’ on each other and instead enhance trade cooperation in areas such as energy, agriculture, health care, high-tech products while the two sides continue trade negotiations

21 May 2018

19 May 2018

China may buy $200 billion worth of US goods to reduce its massive trade surplus, according to a report in The New York Times

12 May 2018

Malaysia’s new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, making a comeback after a landslide poll victory on Thursday, said his scandal-hit predecessor Najib Razak has been prevented from leaving the country

11 May 2018

On his third visit to Nepal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation for Nepal’s biggest hydroelectric project, to be built by India’s state-run SJVN, and also announced a Rs100-crore package for the holy city of Janakpur

07 May 2018