The heart of the matter is that China’s GDP growth of 3% translates as a year-on-year expansion of its economy touching $18 trillion. China’s economic data for the year 2022 has been released in Beijing on Tuesday (17 January, 2023)....
January 17, 2023
World’s richest 1% captured over 63% of all wealth created since 2020: Oxfam
Image used for representational purposes only. An Oxfam report notes that the richest 1% of the world’s population captured over...
September 13, 2022
50m people worldwide in modern slavery; migrants vulnerable
Latest estimates show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years, according to the...
July 9, 2022
BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide’
MELBOURNE, 8 July 2022: ‘Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide’, the new account of two parallel lives from esteemed Australian...
June 24, 2022
BRICS push’s for Russia-Ukraine talks, commitment to multilateralism
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts the 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing via video link on June 23, 2022. Photo: Xinhua...
June 15, 2022
AQLI:Unsafe air, cuts 2 years global life span ; S. Asia most impacted
Particulate pollution remained high even while Covid-19 slowed the global economy. At the same time, mounting evidence on the health...
June 7, 2022
Gupta brothers, involved in alleged Zuma graft , held in UAE
Cape Town [South Africa], June 7 (ANI): The South African government has said the law enforcement authorities in the United...
June 4, 2022
US-India sniping over ‘religious freedom’
MELBOURNE, 4 June 2022: The United States & India don’t see eye to eye on the issue of religious freedom...
May 24, 2022
ILO: Labour market recovery goes into reverse; deficit of 112 m jobs
Recovery in the global labour market is threatened by multiple and interlinked global crises, as well as increasing inequalities, according...
May 15, 2022
NEWS ANALYSIS: India’s wheat export ban irks US, G7 nations
MELBOURNE, 15 May 2022: India’s wheat export ban citing its own food security concerns has been criticised by the United...
May 10, 2022
Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave, Danish Siddiqui among Pulitzer winners
Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave, Danish Siddiqui. Washington (US), May 10 (ANI): Pulitzer Prize 2022 winners in Journalism,...
May 5, 2022
WHO: Global pandemic deaths 14.9 m; India Covid toll 2020 (830,000) & 2021 (4.74 million)
Geneva, 5 May 2022 – New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated...
May 3, 2022
Fox News model, fake news & propoganda ushers a new era of polarisation
The 20th World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals a two-fold increase in polarisation amplified by...