Thailand has confirmed its first case of the Mpox Clade 1b variant, marking the second time this strain has been identified outside Africa and the first one in Asia. According to Reuters, the patient is a 66-year-old European man who arrived in Thailand last week from an unspecified African country where the disease was prevalent.“The…
Representative image Physical gold dealers in India offered discounts for the ninth consecutive week due to high prices, as they await a potential import duty reduction in the upcoming budget, while top consumer China also saw weakness in demand. Gold demand in India, the world’s second-largest gold consumer and a major importer, has slowed as…
NEW DELHI: Asia remained world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards by reporting 79 disasters in 2023 that affected over nine million people, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in a report released on Tuesday. It also underlined that the continent is warming faster than the global average, and the warming trend has…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru has become home to Asia’s first dedicated command and control centre for space domain awareness. The state-of-the-art facility was inaugurated Friday at the newly opened global headquarters of Digantara, a space situational awareness (SSA) company. The 25,000 sq ft headquarters houses a first-of-its-kind command centre focused solely on monitoring and managing space traffic.This…
India’s diesel exports hit by China, South Korea! India’s diesel exports to Asia saw a significant decline of 63% in March compared to the previous month. This drop was because of tough competition from Chinese and South Korean suppliers, which affected profit margins. Indian refiners shipped 61,000 barrels per day (bpd) of diesel to Asian…
NEW DELHI: China’s No. 3 leader took a veiled swipe at the US at a regional forum as the country seeks to push back against the global influence of the world’s leading power while trying to steady the countries’ ties at the same time.“Hegemonic and bullying acts are deeply harmful,” Zhao Leji, the ruling Communist…
LONDON: Extreme heat and flooding could erase $65 billion in apparel export earnings from four Asian countries by 2030, as workers struggle under high temperatures and factories close, research from Schroders and Cornell University showed on Wednesday. The study also mapped out the supply chains of six unidentified global apparel brands operating in the four…
