Xiaomi has shaken up China’s electric vehicle market with the launch of its YU7 SUV. The tech giant received 200,000 pre-orders in just 3 minutes, sending its shares to a record high. With the YU7 priced 4% below Tesla’s Model Y, analysts say Tesla may be forced to cut prices as competition intensifies in the…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India. Relations between the two South Asian countries plummeted after a massacre of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir in April. The nuclear-armed rivals stepped closer to…
A rare wild owl that was bred in Hong Kong has attracted scores of photography fans and bird watchers to the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG), prompting the venue to close a part of the site to prevent visitors from getting near. Images circulating on social media showed crowds of enthusiasts jostling for position…
Chinese arms made up 81 per cent of Pakistan’s weapons imports in the past five years, as Islamabad buys more advanced systems from its long-standing South Asian defence partner, according to data from Swedish think tank SIPRI. That was up 7 percentage points from the previous five-year period to 2019, when 74 per cent of…
HONG KONG — China and Pakistan will upgrade and reconstruct Pakistan’s railway network and further develop its Gwadar port, while Chinese companies can invest in the South Asian nation’s offshore oil and gas developments, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. The comments came as Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari visits China from Feb….
India and China reached a border patrol agreement after years of prolonged negotiations, at both the diplomatic and military levels. That paved the way for the first bilateral meeting since October 2019 between Chinese President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While Xi and Modi held an ‘impromptu meeting’ along the sidelines of…
Amid the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, there is one notable casualty: the nuclear non-proliferation movement. Over the last few years, conflicts in both regions have been shaped by the fact that Russia and Israel possess nuclear weapons but their adversaries in the immediate neighbourhood do not. Russian President Vladimir Putin has used…