Tag: COVID-19

Welcome to Open Dialogue, a series from the South China Morning Post where we bring together leading voices to discuss the stories and subjects occupying international headlines. In this edition, we invited a leading Chinese scholar of South Asian affairs and a former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to ...

US President Donald Trump said he would be “quite disappointed” if his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping broke a personal promise not to arm Iran, even as he revived his accusation that long-time US health official Anthony Fauci helped shield Beijing from scrutiny over the origins of Covid-19.The comments came ...

Countries across Asia are weighing up work-from-home policies and stimulus measures enforced during the COVID pandemic, as they scramble to respond to global fuel shortages triggered by the Iran war.Asia is at the frontline of the fuel crisis, buying more than 80% of the crude that transits the Strait ...

There is an India from below—an India that could have been something else, but it isn't. On one extreme is a minority, hyper-visible India, largely urban. On the other is a majority, life-crushing, poverty-ridden India, largely rural, and on the peripheries of urban.The former is a mix of westernised ...

A fresh push by China and Pakistan to redraw the map of South Asian cooperation risks stumbling at the first hurdle, with analysts saying India remains key to future regional cooperation given its economic heft and crisis management credentials.According to sources cited in Indian media, discussions between Islamabad and ...

2. Do These Images Show the Same ‘Actor’ in Different Photos With Rahul Gandhi? No!A set of photos, both of which show Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, have gone viral on social media, where users have claimed that one person in the background of ...

On May 7, as India launched military strikes in Pakistan, the government quietly released a tranche of data that to a great extent reveals the true cost of the Covid-19 pandemic.India recorded at least 37.4 lakhs excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 compared to two pre-Covid years, 2018 and ...

This is the final of a three-part series. Read the first and the second.In 2018, Ifrat Rashid completed her post-graduation in education from Kashmir University, becoming the first in her family to get a Master’s degree.The 29-year-old from Ganderbal town was confident it would lead to a government job. ...

As the world continues to recover from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts are now warning about potential new infectious threats in 2025. With the global health landscape still fragile, several infectious diseases are on the radar of public health authorities, raising concerns about another pandemic. The ...

India’s reopening of its embassy in North Korea marks a strategic recalibration of New Delhi’s foreign policy, analysts say, aimed at addressing national security concerns linked to missile proliferation and maintaining influence in a region shaped by volatile geopolitics.According to media reports this week, India has decided to resume ...