Kashmir will hold first local polls in a decade. Is it ‘too little, too late’?
“After a long gap, elections are due and will be held in Jammu and Kashmir,” chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar told reporters in New Delhi.
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New Zealanders seek jobs overseas in record numbers as recession bites
Auckland has started to feel like a “ghost town”, Chakrabarti said.
Japan must hedge currency risk to avoid defense funding crisis
Jonathan Grady is the founding principal of The Canary Group, an artificial intelligence-driven forecasting service based in New York.
U.S. sends another carrier from Asia to Middle East, widening Pacific gap
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. decision to redirect the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Middle East away from Asia leaves the West Pacific dangerously open until a newly refurbished aircraft carrier arrives in Japan later this year, according to defense analysts.
India cannot afford to lose plot while chasing Chinese investment
India needs to redefine its objectives. Improving the country’s technological capabilities should be the focus of India’s FDI policies. Accordingly, its strategy towards China should rest on technological transfers and diffusion from Chinese FDI.
US-South Korea military relations, which focused on North Korea, now have a China-sized gap
General Paul LaCamera, commander of US Forces Korea (USFK), on Wednesday stressed the 1953 mutual defence treaty between the allies did not specify a single adversary, adding that his troops were prepared to defend South Korea against “all threats”.
Japan's Nikkei set for near 4% plunge with Asia markets poised to open lower after Wall Street sell-off
Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower on Friday with Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointing to a near 4% plunge for the index, extending losses from Thursday, after Wall Street sell-off overnight.
Japan Raises Interest Rates for Second Time Since 2007
For only the second time in nearly two decades, Japan’s central bank on Wednesday raised interest rates, a move that could help bolster the country’s ailing currency and ease the burden of consumers paying more for imported essentials like food and energy.