India would catch up with its neighbour China in terms of economic growth by the turn of this decade, noted economist Pranab Bardhan. Bardhan, a professor at the University of California, was delivering the third…
Category: Asia
Vice President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that he hopes the members of the Hong Kong Federation of Overseas Chinese Associations (HKFOCA) will make more contributions toward creating long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong. Xi…
Americans are deeply pessimistic about the future as economic concerns rise and White House talks on raising the U.S. debt limit sputter, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The number of Americans who…
Libya’s prosecutor says more than 1,100 Libyans have been killed and 4,500 wounded since NATO’s campaign of airstrikes began on March 19. Mohammed Zikri al-Mahjoubi said Wednesday that he will charge NATO’s chief in a…
Libyan Foreign Minister attends AU Summit Member countries of the African Union, which have not yet altrady done so, are called upon to immediately recognize the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital….
North Korea’s reliance on China for trade deepened last year afterSouth Korea severed most ties with Pyongyang, accusing it of torpedoing of one of its warships, a think-tank said Wednesday. The state Korea Development Institute said in a report the North’s…
By Kathy Kelly: Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the U.S. Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of…
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — Most Chinese real estate developers kept their distance from repeated appeals by officials to accelerate the country’s affordable housing construction that aim to rein in the runaway property market, according…
By John Pilger: One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). “A critical look at salaried professionals,” says the cover, “and the…
TEHRAN – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the West is fearful of the establishment of a government with Islamic persuasions in Libya. “The West is very afraid of…