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The radar base will focus on monitoring the activities of the Indian Navy, apart from attempting to evaluate India's strategic assets in South India
Colombo awards licences to three foreign firms, including a Chinese one, to operate in retail fuel market
Will remain slightly Overweight India in the Asia Pacific ex-Japan relative-return portfolio, says Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies in his GREED & Fear note to investors.
China's new Premier Li Qiang on Monday said achieving the five per cent GDP target for the slowing down economy is not an easy task and requires redoubled efforts but assured the country's tattered private sector better environment, broader space for development. Li Qiang, the long-term aide of Chinese President Xi Jinping who succeeded Li Keqiang, in his first press conference, drew on Chinese folklore to demonstrate the country's resilience in the face of difficulties but concedes the economy faces challenges. He acknowledged that achieving the 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) growth target of around five per cent for this year on the current high base of China's economic output is not an easy task and requires redoubled efforts. Playing down the importance of GDP, he said most people do not keep their eyes on GDP growth all the time. China, the world's second-largest economy, last year reported a three per cent GDP, the lowest in decades and the target of about five per cent se
New Delhi-based think-tank Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA) has published an interactive dashboard on China's Census
Amid multiple domestic and international reverses due to its zero-Covid policy and assertiveness, China is unlikely to meet its estimated GDP growth rate, according to World Bank
The lockdowns, testing and quarantine rules that were key to the Covid Zero policy put a strain on consumer and business spending, pushing the economy close to contraction in the second quarter
Health ministry asks states to ramp up genome sequencing
Chinese cities are witnessing a wave of Covid-19 cases, with concerns growing that the government may be hiding the true toll of the virus
Companies, investors around the world looking at India's policy trajectory, says the professor of trade policy at Cornell University
The Washington-based crisis lender sees Chinese gross domestic product expanding 3.2% this year and 4.4% in 2023
The company, known also as Foxconn, reported earnings that missed estimates for the third quarter and said revenue growth will be flat for the current three-month period
The country reported 5,436 cases for Sunday, up 27% from the day before to the most since May 2, when Shanghai was in the midst of its months-long lockdown.
At least six counties and cities in Henan asked residents who just left Foxconn to contact local authorities before going home. Workers will be sent to several days of mandatory isolation: Officials
Gross domestic product grew 3.9% in the July-to-September period from a year ago, rebounding from almost stagnant growth in the second quarter when Shanghai was still in lockdown
The National Bureau of Statistics updated its release schedule on Monday, with the dates for major economic indicators due this week marked as delayed
The data is further evidence of the toll China's Covid Zero strategy is taking on consumer spending and the economy.
The fund will "invest in existing assets" of real estate companies and renovate the properties into rental housing, the lender said in a statement to the Shanghai stock exchange Friday.
The consensus in a Bloomberg survey is for the economy to expand 3.5% this year, which would be the second-weakest annual reading in more than four decades
China's economy continued to recover in August but warning signs are flashing across a number of fronts as drought and weaker global demand add new risks to growth prospects