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India is rising US defence, security partner in Indo-Pacific: Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 22: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday said that India is a rising US defence and security partner in the Indo-Pacific and has the opportunity to attract manufacturing supply chains away from China in sectors like telecom and healthcare.
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Very pleased to see India, China trying to de-escalate along LAC: US Defen
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 21 (ANI): The United States is closely monitoring the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and it is pleased to see India and China attempting to de-escalate the tensions, the US Defense Secretary Mark T Esper said on Tuesday.
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Indian border tensions echo Beijing's South China Sea Shenanigans
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 21 (ANI): Chinese activities along the Sino-Indian border eerily mimic what has been happening in the South China Sea for nearly a decade. It is thus illustrative to look at the latter to predict what may happen in the former, as events happen against a backdrop of plummet
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Negative credit trends for A-Pac non-financial companies to continue: Mood
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 17 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service said on Friday it expects negative credit trends for Asia Pacific non-financial companies to continue through 2020 as global lockdowns have caused severe disruptions in economic activity during the first half of the year.
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Building ASEAN community remains 'top priority': Senior officials
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hanoi [Veitnam], July 16 (VNA/ANI): Successfully building the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) community continues to be a top priority of the bloc despite the difficulties and challenges posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the group's member states reiterated at the ASEAN
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'PRC has doubled its campaign to impose an order of might makes right in S
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): The People's Republic of China (PRC) has doubled-down on its campaign to impose an order of "might makes right" in the South China Sea, said David R. Stilwell, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affair.
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$29 billion loss expected for Asia Pacific airlines this year: IATA
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Airlines in the Asia Pacific region will be the hardest hit by COVID-19 crisis with losses expected to be 29 billion dollars for 2020, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Monday.
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Cause of continuing fire on Navy ship in San Diego unknown
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [US], July 13 (ANI): The cause of fire on board naval vessel stationed at a naval base in San Diego, California is still unknown, local firefighters have said.
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Another Trump term may enable China to expand its influence in Asia-Pacifi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 11 (ANI): US President Donald Trump, these days may be engaged in imposing "reciprocal measures" on China and expecting the Chinese Communist Party to desperately back a Democrat leader in the upcoming US presidential elections scheduled to be held in November.
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India-Australia relations driven by strategic alignment in Indo-Pacific sa
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): India and Australia's strategic alignment in the Indo-Pacific region along with people to people connections are driving the bilateral ties between the two countries to an elevated level, said former Australian High Commissioner to India Harinder Sidhu on Fr
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ADB, IEA renew pact to collaborate on energy sector sustainability and res
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], July 10 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has renewed a memorandum of understanding with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to scale up collaboration and advance progress on sustainability with an increased focus on energy sector resilience in Asia and the
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Defence Ministers of Australia, Japan, US hold virtual meeting over Indo-P
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 8 (ANI): Australian Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds, Japanese Minister of Defense KONO Taro, and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper convened a virtual trilateral defence ministerial meeting on Tuesday (local time) to re-affirm mutual cooperation amid coronavirus
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