Jingdezhen World Heritage listing highlights China’s commitment to preserving its cultural legacy
For generations, porcelain makers in Jingdezhen have worked through a sequence of highly specialized tasks: preparing clay, shaping vessels, painting designs, applying glaze, and firing kilns. Those skills remain an…
PM Carney doesn’t see the value in using Canadian energy as a bargaining chip with the U.S.
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday signalled he doesn’t want to use Canadian energy as a bargaining chip in the ongoing trade war with the United States, though he wouldn’t…
China’s economy starts new five-year plan with resilience, new growth drivers
China’s steady first-half growth in 2026 underscored the resilience of the world’s second-largest economy and the growing role of new growth drivers as it embarked on a new five-year development…
Pakistan’s fintech landscape
In the first quarter of the current year, the Annual Payment Systems Review issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reveals that Pakistan witnessed 3.7 billion retail transactions, out…
China’s Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site logs its 50th launch mission
A Long March-7A carrier rocket carrying the Tianlian III-01 satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang, south China’s Hainan Province, July 29, 2026. Launched at 7:50…
Pakistan: HEC’s degree verification to go digital
Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable integration of HEC’s degree verification system with PSEB’s upcoming national digital…