WASHINGTON (TIP): Fast food giant McDonald’s has planned to open approximately 1,300 fast food restaurants in China over the next five years, CEO Steve Easterbrook announced. Easterbrook said that the firm wants to make China […]
SEOUL (TIP): North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea on Friday, a news report said, hours after US President Barack Obama urged closer security ties among its Asian allies and increased […]
BEIJING (TIP): China’s manufacturing activity expanded in March for the first time in nine months, official data showed on Friday. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), which tracks activity in factories and workshops, rebounded to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nuclear-armed Pakistan is a “very, very vital problem”, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said and asserted that the country needs to “get a hold of” its situation. “Pakistan is a very, very […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal army chief, General Rajendra Chhetri left on a week-long visit of China on Sunday, the day Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli returns from his official tour of the neighbouring country. This […]
NAYPYITAW (TIP): Htin Kyaw, a confidante of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was sworn in Wednesday as Myanmar’s president, ushering in the first democratically elected government into office after decades of military rule. The […]
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladeshi court on March 28 issued arrest warrants for former prime minister Khaleda Zia and 27 other opposition party leaders on accusations they instigated an arson attack on a passenger bus during […]
NAYPYITAW (TIP): Myanmar’s president-elect on March 22 proposed an 18-member cabinet that will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who for decades had campaigned for a democratically elected government to replace […]
BEIJING (TIP): Nepal can be a bridge between China and India, President Xi Jinping said and asserted that it is in the common interest of the “two big neighbours” that Nepal enjoys stability and development. […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korea said Saturday its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and “liberate” the South if it sees signs that American and South Korean troops involved in annual joint military drills are […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid the current thaw in bilateral ties, former Maldivian president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Tuesday said India remains the “most important strategic” partner of Maldives. “India was and remains the most strategically […]
KABUL (TIP): At least 15 members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed in airstrikes in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the government said on Monday. “Acting upon confirmed intelligence reports, the […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a top Islamist leader for war crimes during the country’s independence struggle against Pakistan in 1971, paving the way for his execution. Chief Justice […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan along with its “all-weather” ally China has successfully blocked India’s bid to become a member of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group, Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Eight US-made F16s have not exactly flown out to Islamabad yet, but well may the engines be fired up and the planes ready to taxi. The US Senate on Thursday rejected by a […]
BEIJING (TIP): In a shocking incident, a Chinese couple allegedly sold their 18-day-old baby daughter for $3530 to buy an iPhone. A Duan, father of the child, from Fujian Province in country’s southeast found a […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is making a new law that will restrict charity organisations from supporting programmes that threaten public interest or national security. “Charities shall not carry out or sponsor any activity that endangers national […]
SEOUL (TIP): South Korea and the United States were set to open talks on Friday on the possible deployment, vehemently opposed by China, of an advanced US missile defence system to counter the growing threat […]
LAHORE (TIP): A Pakistani man was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for allegedly posting religiously offensive material on his Facebook page, lawyers in the case said. Rizwan Haider, 25, was convicted in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): In an effort to address Nepal’s post-earthquake housing crisis, a new initiative is underway to harness the Himalayan country’s abundant bamboo resource to rebuild its devastated communities and promote sustainable livelihoods. On April […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s finance minister on March 3 said that his country will never roll back its nuclear programme despite financial hardship and threat of mounting external debt. Ishaq Dar was briefing the Senate, the […]
JALALABAD (TIP): At least 10 people were killed and over 40 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar today, officials said. “A suicide bomber riding […]
NEW DELH: India is all set to issue multi- city, multiple-entry business visa to businessmen of SAARC nations including Pakistan, beginning April 1, 2016. The business visa, to be called ‘India Business Card’ is expected […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): US Army General John W “Mick” Nicholson has taken command of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, inheriting America’s longest war and a vicious insurgency.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and to turn its military posture to “pre-emptive attack” mode in the face of growing […]
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