Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special assistant on information Asim Saleem Bajwa, a retired lieutenant general, resigned weeks after a report his family business grew in the US, while he was ... ( read original story ...)
India’s new plan to tackle $140 billion in bad loans: QuickTake
India has rolled out a fresh plan to tackle an old problem: the mountain of bad loans held by its banks. With the pandemic forecast to push soured assets to a two-decade high, Prime Minister Narendra ... ( read original story ...)
India announces economic stimulus to boost demand by $10 bln
India on Monday announced steps to stimulate consumer demand, including advance payment of a part of the wages of federal government employees during the festival season and more capital spending as ... ( read original story ...)
India Unveils $6.6 Billion Plan to Boost Demand, Infrastructure
India announced measures worth $6.6 billion to stimulate consumer demand and investment in the economy damaged by the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
India’s direct power subsidy plan to help utility finances
India’s federal government wants states to directly transfer electricity subsidies to consumers rather than asking power distribution companies to charge a lower tariff. ( read original story ...)
Analysis: South Korea Sees Hope and Threat in Mixed Message From North’s Kim
South Korean officials have seized on conciliatory comments by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the weekend as a sign that tension could be easing but also worry the huge number of rockets he ... ( read original story ...)
UN urged to take action against Myanmar over civilian abuses
First-hand testimonies, images obtained by Amnesty show the Myanmar military’s ‘utter disregard for civilian suffering’. ( read original story ...)
‘Not scared of the virus’, Myanmar taxi driver’s pilgrimage to a sacred pagoda
Defying the threat of contracting coronavirus and a citywide lockdown, Myanmar taxi driver Ko Naing, 50, still travels each day to pray outside the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country’s ... ( read original story ...)
Myanmar detains large amount of unlawful drugs
The Myanmar authorities have confiscated a large quantity of ammonium nitrate in Kachin state, according to an update from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Sunday, October ... ( read original story ...)
Myanmar army ‘burning villages and killing civilians’ in growing civil war, Amnesty reports
Villages have been burnt and civilians killed by the Myanmar army as the civil conflict in the country’s western Rakhine state continues to escalate, according to a report by Amnesty International. ( read original story ...)