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Cover Story: Trump’s Tariff-by-Tweet Tactics are Pushing Global Trade Into Perpetual Uncertainty
Caixin
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President Donald Trump’s trade policy has shifted into a chaotic era, moving away from structured negotiations to a cycle of abrupt threats, shifting deadlines, and loosely defined agreements. This approach has left global commerce in a perpetual...
China's Giant Tibetan Dam Invokes Concern
Asia Sentinel
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August 5, 2025
By: Nava Thakuria Before and after China’s construction of what is expected to be the world’s largest hydropower dam on a spectacular, scenic horseshoe bend of the Tsangpo river in Tibet, which got underway on July 19, is attracting alarm for its...
Thai prosecutors indict 23 over quake skyscraper collapse
RTE Ireland
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August 7, 2025
Thai prosecutors have indicted 23 people and firms in a case linked to the deadly collapse of a Bangkok high-rise in an earthquake. The 30-storey tower crumbled seconds after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on 28 March, killing thousands in...
Capitalist China and socialist revolution
AntiCapitalist Resistance
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August 11, 2025
Capitalist China and socialist revolution by Simon Hannah [Published by Resistance Books in 2023] The economic and political growth of China and its transformation into a world power is one of the defining features of the modern age and will have...
The Misunderstood Purpose of Economic Sanctions
New Lines Magazine
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August 11, 2025
In 2024, the Biden administration imposed eight rounds of sanctions on 17 extremist West Bank settlers and leaders of organizations that had played a particularly egregious role in fomenting violence against Palestinians. The administration also...
Denied by design? Why proving citizenship is a trial and tribulation for the poor
The Federal
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August 11, 2025
West Bengal resident Jiem Sheikh is learning the hard way how fragile Indian citizenship status can be, especially for those who are poor and marginalised. He is at a loss over what document could prove the Indian nationality of his 20-year-old...
Trump’s new import tariffs now in force against scores of countries as trade war escalates
The Independent
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August 7, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
What causes earthquakes? Where was the earthquake just now?
The North Jersey Record - New Jersey
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Earthquakes aren't uncommon in some parts, but recent earthquake activity in New Jersey is rare and leaves many questioning why it seems to be happening so much lately. Within a few days, two small earthquakes hit north Jersey. According to United...
UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : International Relations MCQs on Nagorno-Karabakh, BIMSTEC and more (Week 122)
The Indian Express
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August 10, 2025
UPSC Essentials brings to you its initiative of subject-wise quizzes. These quizzes are designed to help you revise some of the most important topics from the static part of the syllabus. Attempt today’s subject quiz on International Relations to...
Asean needs to spend US$178 billion to fix plastic leakage by 2050: OECD
Eco-Business
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August 6, 2025
Lower-middle income countries in the region like the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar will shoulder the most cost, with more than 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) that needs to be spent by mid-century, read the study by...
Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions
Mongabay
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August 6, 2025
The Salween River, at around 3,300 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, is Asia’s longest free-flowing river, running from Tibet through Myanmar to the Andaman Sea. But Indigenous groups and communities living along its banks in China, Myanmar and Thailand...
Israel’s Druze Community and the Question of Suweida: Between Leverage and Limitation
The Syrian Observer
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August 10, 2025
In Israel, the Druze community occupies a complex position: celebrated as loyal citizens by the state, yet subject to systemic inequalities that have persisted since the 1950s. Their story has returned to the spotlight amid speculation about...
Operation Falcon Playing Major Role In Anti-Poaching Drive: Assam CM
MENAFN
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August 11, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Guwahati, Aug 11 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday hailed the success of“Operation Falcon”, a major anti-poaching drive launched in 2024 to protect the iconic one-horned rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park....
India`s only ape Western Hoolock Gibbon under threat: Primatologist
Mid Day Mumbai
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August 6, 2025
Habitat loss due to encroachment, unregulated resource extraction, infrastructure development, tea plantations, shifting cultivation, hunting, and wildlife trafficking are threats to these primates, he said Image for representational purposes only...
Busways charts a greener, smarter future
The Business Times Singapore
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August 5, 2025
IN 2006, Sunny Chong founded Busways with a vision that was as personal as it was professional. “I started the company because of my passion for engineering and the exciting challenges it brings,” says Sunny, who is also the company’s Chairman. “I...
General : M'sia Pledges Stronger, Data-driven ASEAN As 2025 Chair - DOSM
Bernama
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August 11, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Malaysia, as ASEAN Chair for 2025, has reiterated its commitment to building a more cohesive, inclusive, and data-driven ASEAN, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). In a statement, DOSM said...
TV host recounts harrowing filming nightmare that left him 'nearly sentenced to death'
Fox News
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August 6, 2025
TV personality and conservationist Forrest Galante tells Sean Hannity about a harrowing brush with life imprisonment after breaking the law in Myanmar. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cocaine hippos, narrow escapes from the law and...
The Beginning of the 2025 Election Landscape — Not the Same as 2010
MoeMaKa
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August 1, 2025
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – July 31 Perspective (MoeMaKa, August 1, 2025) The Beginning of the 2025 Election Landscape — Not the Same as 2010 Four and a half years after the military coup, the junta—formally named the State Administration...
Indonesia’s ballistic missile deployment, a first in Southeast Asia, could shift regional power balance
Channel News Asia
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August 11, 2025
Within the region, Vietnam is known to possess Soviet-era Scud-class ballistic missiles and North Korean derivatives like the Hwasong-6, with ranges of 300 to 500 km, but those systems are Cold War-era and not newly acquired. Myanmar, meanwhile,...
Asean’s quiet diplomacy helped halt Cambodia-Thailand clashes: Sec-Gen Kao
The Straits Times
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August 6, 2025
SINGAPORE – Asean played a pivotal role in helping to halt the July border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, but its hands were tied to a large extent, given that the clash’s root causes were embedded in domestic dynamics on both sides. What...