The director of the United Nations' trade agency warned on Friday that retaliatory tariffs and countermeasures could have a "catastrophic impact" on developing countries, potentially worse than cuts to foreign aid.
The International Trade Centre (...)
Chairperson of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE), Walid Gamal El-Din, and Ismailia Governor Akram Galal laid the foundation stone for the Hi-Tech – North Africa sportswear factory—the first Thai industrial investment in both Egypt and the (...)
Cambodia's exports to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) country members rose 14.4 per cent year-on-year to $8.25 billion in the first 11 months of 2024 from 2023's $7.21 billion, according to a Ministry of Commerce report on (...)
Egypt's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Rania Al-Mashat, has participated in a high-level event in Tokyo, celebrating 70 years of development cooperation between Egypt and Japan. The event, organised by the Ministry of Foreign (...)
Laos posted a trade deficit of $154 million in September 2024, according to the latest figures from the Lao Trade Portal website on Wednesday.
This is the ninth consecutive month for the Asian country this year,
The total trade value for September (...)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved over $1.8 million to support an urban development project in Vangvieng, Laos. The project aims to make Vangvieng a more attractive destination for tourists and boost the country's economy.
The project will (...)
Laos recorded a trade deficit of $129 million in August 2024, with exports totaling $541 million and imports at $670 million.
Key exports included electric equipment, gold, rubber, and copper ore. Major imports were diesel, machinery, and vehicles, (...)
The European Union (EU) earmarked up to €1.2 million in humanitarian aid to support people severely impacted by Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar.
This assistance is part of a broader humanitarian response to the typhoon's effects across several Southeast (...)
The World Bank (WB) said that high inflation in Laos is impacting living standards, changing the labour force, and prompting workers to look for jobs overseas, according to its survey showed on Thursday.
WB's Rapid Monitoring Phone Surveys, (...)
China General Nuclear has signed an agreement with Laos to expand a major renewable energy project in the northern region of the country, according to the People's Daily.
The new deal, shall add a second phase of the project that will include a 580 (...)
The Lao government has announced plans to utilise advanced AI satellite technology to calculate carbon credits and prevent fraudulent data, the Lao News Agency reported according to Xinhua.
This initiative is a key component of the Reducing (...)
The extension of Singapore's multilateral deal to import hydropower from Laos has hit a roadblock due to disagreements over energy transmission through Malaysia and Thailand, according to two regional government sources.
The Lao (...)
Henry Kissinger was the former US secretary of state and national security advisor in the time of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977.
With his death on Wednesday, America is mourning one of its so-called superheroes.
However, (...)
في حدث جلل عثر العلماء على أوان غامضة كانت تستخدم في ممارسة طقوس الدفن البشرية القديمة في الهند قبل 400 عام قبل الميلاد.
Large Sandstone Jars Discovered in India 65 giant sandstone jars were discovered at new sites in northeastern India ASSAM، (...)
With the last steel beam laid, a railway stretching over 1,000 km from southwest China's Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, to Vientiane of Laos, was completed on Tuesday.
The track construction of the China-Laos railway was completed in Mengla (...)
Egypt has accepted the UK's offer to develop the former's electricity grid by integrating the variable renewable energy needed to allow the electrification of the country's transportation sector.
Egypt has already started working towards a greener (...)
President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans Monday for sharing the shots (...)
Southeast Asian leaders began a crisis meeting on Myanmar on Saturday aiming to persuade Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military takeover that sparked turmoil in his country, to forge a path to end the violence.
The gathering of leaders (...)
Seven Southeast Asian leaders are expected to attend a summit with head of Myanmar's junta to discuss the crisis caused by the military coup, according to diplomats and officials in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital where Saturday's meeting will be (...)
Across Myanmar, opponents of the ruling junta on Sunday mourned the killings of at least 114 people by security forces in the bloodiest day since the military coup on Feb. 1, but vowed to keep protesting to end army rule.
Children were among those (...)
Security forces killed more than 90 people across Myanmar on Saturday in one of the bloodiest days of protests since a military coup last month, news reports and witnesses said.
The lethal crackdown came on Armed Forces Day. Senior General Min Aung (...)
Myanmar police opened fire on Tuesday to disperse crowds protesting against a military coup as foreign ministers of neighbouring countries prepared to hold talks with the junta in a bid to find a peaceful way out of the crisis.
The talks, to be held (...)
Indonesia is pushing Southeast Asian neighbours to agree on an action plan over Myanmar's coup that would keep the junta to its promise of holding elections, with monitors to ensure they are fair and inclusive, three sources familiar with the move (...)
The Ambassador of India to Egypt, Rahul Kulshreshth, flagged off Raj Phanden from the Embassy of India in Cairo, on 10 February 2021.
Phanden, who is also known as Cycle Baba and World Bicycle Traveler, is on a mission titled ‘Wheels for Green' to (...)
شاهد العالم عن كثب عبر وسائل الإعلام عملية اقتحام أنصار الرئيس الأمريكي المنتهية ولايته دونالد ترامب لمبنى الكونجرس أمس الأربعاء احتجاجاً على إدعاءات سرقة فوز ترامب ووقوع عمليات تزوير بالانتخابات الرئاسية.
وبحسب شبكة «العربية» الإخبارية، أدت هذه (...)
