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BEIJING: China accused the United States of “double standards” on Sunday (Oct 12), after President Donald Trump announced an additional 100 percent tariff on the world’s second-largest economy.”The relevant US statement is a typical example of ‘double standards’,” an unnamed Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said in a statement published online.Trump said on Friday that he would impose the extra levies plus export controls on “critical software”, due to take effect on Nov 1, in response to what he called “extraordinarily aggressive” new Chinese export curbs on rare-earth minerals.He also called into question the prospects for a previously announced meeting set…
POOR INFRASTRUCTURE THREATENS GROWTH POTENTIALDemand from Russia and its trade partners like Kyrgyzstan has surged…
Indonesian rescuers hunt 38 missing after Islamic school collapse kills three, injures nearly 80
THE CASUALTIES AND INJURIESThe students had been performing afternoon prayers in a building that was…
BANGKOK: Thailand’s economy needed a quick short term stimulus to jump start growth, which has…
The company is one of the world’s fastest-growing gold producers, with interests in eight mines…
DRESDEN, Germany: A former aide to German far-right lawmaker Maximilian Krah in the European parliament…
SIDOARJO, Indonesia: Parents were desperately searching for scores of missing teenage boys feared trapped under…
MANILA: A 6.9-magnitude quake struck off the coast of central Philippines on Tuesday evening (Sep…
HANOI: A court in Vietnam sentenced on Tuesday (Sep 30) 16 people at its only…
QUETTA, Pakistan: Militants detonated a car full of explosives outside a border force headquarters in…
KABUL: The United Nations called on Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Monday (Sep 29) to immediately…
About 120 division chiefs signed statutory declarations urging Muhyiddin, a 78-year-old former prime minister, to…
JAKARTA: Indonesia is providing regular updates to the global nuclear watchdog and the United States…
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