Sri Lanka has seen a surge of containers being cleared ahead of a value added tax hike on imports, State Minister for Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said, but made no mention of protected domestic ...
Macron says France will sign agreement with Bangladesh to finance climate-change adaptation, loss and damage in first half of 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country will sign an agreement with Bangladesh to finance climate-change adaptation and loss and damage in the first half of 2024.The French Development ...
Finance ministry optimistic on India’s growth despite global stress
Interestingly, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently revised India’s growth outlook from its earlier estimate of 6.5% to 7%, after it surpassed expectations, clocking impressive growth of 7.6% in Q2, ...
Strengthening Uzbekistan’s international political and economic positions in the context of chairing the Turkic States Organisation
Uzbekistan's chairmanship in the Turkic States Organization (OTS) concluded. It was marked by significant achievements that played a substantial role in strengthening the country's international ...
Uzbekistan’s Samarkand Airlines offs its maiden demo flight
The first Airbus A330, leased from China's Minsheng Financial Leasing, arrived in Uzbekistan on November 2 of 2023. The carrier also received several A320 and A321 aircraft. In the nearest future, Air ...
Masdar’s total investment in Uzbekistan reaches $4 billion
Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar’s total investment in Uzbekistan has reached $4 billion, with 1.4 gigawatts of clean energy from its projects now connected to the national grid in the ...
Veiled rebellion: Female medical students go underground in Afghanistan
“Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world for women’s rights,” said Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) ...
Afghanistan Expects To Achieve Self-Sufficiency Within Three Years: Minister
The Afghan caretaker government's acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nooruddin Azizi, said that, the administration ...
Biden’s Deadly Afghanistan Lies Live on
As regions around the world continue to spiral into war, we’re reminded of the event that started it all: President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
2023 in review: Iraq’s pro-Iran factions make gains, but so do Sunni groups
an umbrella bloc of Iraqi Shiite parties united mostly by their opposition to the Sadrist movement — have won most of the seats in the Shiite-majority provincial councils in central and southern Iraq, ...