Category : Neighbourhood Intel

Myanmar’s military regime is moving to seize the assets of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charity founded by jailed former State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and named after her mother. The foundation was established in 2012 to promote improvements in the health, education and living standards of the Myanmar people, especially in […]Read More

Three new visa categories have been introduced for individuals arriving in Sri Lanka to engage in economic activities at the Colombo Port City, including visas issued for investors, employment, and property. Speaking to The Morning, Ministry of Public Security Secretary S. Hettiarachchi stated that a minimum of $500,000 should be invested in the Port City […]Read More

The Lahore High Court has restored Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi as Punjab chief minister and his cabinet on the assurance that the provincial assembly would not be dissolved, suspending Governor Balighur Rehman’s de-notification order. The Governor issued an order in the wee hours of Friday to de-notify the chief minister and dissolve his cabinet after Elahi […]Read More

Amid external account challenges, Pakistan borrowed about $5.115 billion in foreign loans in the first five months (July-November) of the current fiscal year, almost 14 per cent higher than the foreign loans it received in the comparable period last year. In its monthly report on Foreign Economic Assistance (FEA), the Ministry of Economic Affairs said […]Read More

As many as 37 million people are contracting COVID-19 in a single day in China, according to leaked minutes from a meeting of the country’s top health body confirmed by multiple news outlets. In the first 20 days of December, 248 million people—accounting for about 18 per cent of the population—were likely to have been […]Read More