Beijing: Pakistan Ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque has said that the joint production of JF 17 Thunder Aircraft at Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corporation has become a symbol of the special relationship between Pakistan and China. He made these remarks in a meeting with Wang Xiaohui,
United Nations: Myanmar's military has imported $1 billion in weapons since seizing power in a 2021 coup and used them "to commit atrocities," a United Nations expert said in a report released on Thursday. Fighting has ravaged Myanmar since the coup, including renewed clashes with ethnic
Xian, China: China wants to further deepen relations with Kazakhstan in times of both “prosperity and adversity.” President Xi Jinping told his visiting Kazakh counterpart. This week, China will for the first time host an in-person summit of Central Asian leaders, building ties in Russia’s backyard
New York: In a historic auction in New York, a remarkable Hebrew Bible over 1,000 years old was sold for a staggering $38.1 million, setting a new record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon, dating back to the late ninth
Hiroshima, Japan: President Joe Biden on Thursday will open his visit to a Japan that has tightened its economic and national security alliance with the US by meeting privately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of the larger Group of Seven summit. Kishida’s home city
Hanoi: Vietnam on Thursday criticised recent conduct by a Chinese research ship and the Philippine coast guard in the South China Sea, accusing its neighbours of separate actions that were violating its sovereign rights. Tensions are high in contested parts of the South China Sea, one
Warsaw: Denis Dziubanovskiy weighed only a perilous 1.5 kg when his Ukrainian refugee mother, traumatized by the war in her homeland, gave birth to him prematurely via caesarean section, leaving her unable to breastfeed him. A UNICEF-funded milk bank in Poland set up for mothers in
Beijing: The Sanxingdui Museum, which is set to open a new exhibition hall on July 28, has recently seen a surge in visitor numbers. During the recent Labor Day holiday period, nearly 100,000 visitors flocked to the site. With such a high level of interest,
London: The UK Home Office is to fast-track the asylum applications of more than 20,000 people from Iraq and Iran in an effort to fulfill a pledge by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to clear a substantial backlog of more than 90,000 claims. A leaked document, suggests
Rakhine: Hundreds of people, including Rohingya Muslims, were feared dead after a cyclone struck Myanmar at the weekend, residents and aid groups said, with rescue efforts hampered by damage to infrastructure. Myanmar's impoverished Rakhine State bore the brunt of Cyclone Mocha, during which winds of up