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Gwadar port in Baluchistan witnesses increasing demands from the locals fo
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Gwadar [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): Protests in Gwadar port have intensified with the locals headed by the leader of Gwadar Ko Haq Do Tehreek (Movement for rights of Gwadar) demanding further rights.
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Slow pace, terror attacks slow down China Pakistan Economic Corridor's pro
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 24 (ANI): China's highly touted Belt Road Initiative (BRI) seems to be losing its sheen everywhere, as various issues including work at slow pace and terror attacks slow down the China Pakistan Economic Corridor's (CPEC) progress.
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China's BRI is a threat to climate change and environment: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 6 (ANI): China's Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is a threat to climate change and is responsible for causing environmental degradation as almost 90 per cent of its energy projects are carbon-intensive and operate on fossil fuel, a think tank has said.
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Xi's dream project 'Belt Road Initiative' in trouble amid China's shrinkin
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 14 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping's dream of setting a new world order has come crashing down after the Covid-19 slowed down the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), pushing it towards becoming financial inviable, reported the Kabul Times.
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China, Bangladesh agree to advance BRI cooperation
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Beijing [China], July 5 (ANI): China and Bangladesh agreed to advance their cooperation under the multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), following talks between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.
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Selling Italy to Chinese
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Mar 23 (ANI): Italy signed on Saturday a Memorandum of Understanding with China to join the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), becoming the first member of the G-7 grouping of industrialised countries to do so.
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China using Buddhism to increase its influence in South Asia
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 7 (ANI): In a bid to increase its influence in South Asia, China is slowly using Buddhism as a soft power. From rewriting sacred texts by introducing Chinese narrative to developing Buddhist pilgrim sites and controlling monasteries in its own way, China is working
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Belt and Road rethink in Southeast Asia: Will India change its mind?
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Singapore, Nov 12 (ANI): From the gleaming new city of Khorgos sprouting out of the desert in Kazakhstan to the kilometres of shinny steel rails being laid in the countryside in Laos, China's trillion-dollar signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is making an impact around the world. Read More
Malaysia keen to avoid China's BRI tangle
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], June 6 (ANI): The Government of Malaysia has said that while it has good bilateral relations with China, it would not be keen to go overboard in getting involved in Beijing's expansionist infrastructure-related Belt Road Initiative (BRI) without having the appropriat
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China praises Pak over CPEC
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): China on Friday heaped praises on Pakistan for "safeguarding" ongoing multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which forms a part of Beijing's ambitious transnational Belt Road Initiative (BRI).
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China urges Pak to keep tensions with India 'minimum'
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 25 (ANI): China has asked Pakistan to engage with India to keep tensions between the two countries to a minimum in order to maintain a conducive environment for timely completion of various projects under the ongoing multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corr
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CPEC: Business, security headache for China, Pak
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], April 23 (ANI): The ongoing over USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which forms a part of Beijing's ambitious transnational Belt Road Initiative (BRI), is according to a report, turning out to be an economic as well as a security
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