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As Saudi tensions with Iran-backed Houthis escalate, mediator Pakistan faces pressure to choose a side

As Saudi tensions with Iran-backed Houthis escalate, mediator Pakistan faces pressure to choose a side

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI, Sept 11 — For much of the past year, Pakistan has played a dual role as Riyadh’s defence partner and Washington’s backchannel to Tehran but this week’s fighting between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement and Saudi forces is increasingly testing how long Islamabad can hold both positions at once. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Pakistan says no military response discussed under Mecca pact over Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

Pakistan says no military response discussed under Mecca pact over Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

ISLAMABAD, Sept 10 — Pakistan said on Thursday that there were no discussions about a military reaction from Islamabad under the Mecca agreement in response to the Houthis’ attacks on Saudi Arabia, but added that Pakistan would act when the «time comes». ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran

How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran

PARIS, Sept 10 — Iran has used a barter-like arrangement to bypass sanctions on its oil sales and buy billions of dollars’ worth of goods from China, including military gear, two senior Iranian sources and three other people familiar with the matter told Reuters. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Brent crude rises above $100 a barrel as Middle East conflict escalates

Brent crude rises above $100 a barrel as Middle East conflict escalates

SINGAPORE, Sept 9 — Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose past $100 a barrel on Wednesday, breaching the symbolic barrier for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East fuelled growing concern about oil flows from the region. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

New Zealand public servants walk off job over pay offer

New Zealand public servants walk off job over pay offer

WELLINGTON, Sept 9 — Nearly 10,000 New Zealand public servants walked off the job for several hours on Wednesday, adding to pressure on a government confronting a weak urban economy and middle-income households strained by high living costs ahead of an election in about two months. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

South Korea sends team to assess situation in Strait of Hormuz

South Korea sends team to assess situation in Strait of Hormuz

Sept 8 — South Korea has sent an inspection team to assess the security situation in the Strait of Hormuz but no decision has been taken on sending troops, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Blockade succeeds where sanctions failed as Iran oil exports stall

Blockade succeeds where sanctions failed as Iran oil exports stall

LONDON, Sept 1 — For the first time on record, Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz, as a U.S. naval blockade succeeds where years of sanctions failed by cutting off one of Tehran’s main sources of foreign-currency earnings. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agree to establish secretariat under joint defence pact

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agree to establish secretariat under joint defence pact

Aug 31 — Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to establish a secretariat in Saudi Arabia under their Mecca joint defence agreement, which will initially be headed by a Pakistani secretary-general for three years, the three countries said in a joint statement on Monday. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Kazakhstan’s president appoints top adviser as vice president

Kazakhstan’s president appoints top adviser as vice president

ASTANA, Aug 31 — Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday appointed Erlan Karin, a longtime adviser, as vice president, an office created under a new constitution that Central Asia’s largest economy adopted earlier this year. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

G20 countries should consider more trade barriers on China to cut imbalances, Bessent says

G20 countries should consider more trade barriers on China to cut imbalances, Bessent says

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 30 — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he will encourage G20 members to re-examine terms of trade with China to shrink global imbalances and press Beijing to rebalance its economy away from exports and toward domestic consumption. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Nepal’s flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild

Nepal’s flood damage may cost up to a tenth of economy to rebuild

Aug 29 — Nepal may need $4 billion to $5 billion to rebuild after this week’s devastating floods, Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle told Reuters on Saturday, a bill equal to nearly a tenth of the economy. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Two killed in oil tanker fire off South Korea, Yonhap reports

Two killed in oil tanker fire off South Korea, Yonhap reports

SEOUL, Aug 28 — Two crew people were killed on Thursday after a fire broke out aboard an oil products tanker off South Korea, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the Coast Guard. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Australian Indigenous group appeals compensation ruling over Fortescue’s mining impact

Australian Indigenous group appeals compensation ruling over Fortescue’s mining impact

MELBOURNE, Aug 26 — Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal court over the amount of compensation awarded against Fortescue for mining on their lands without an agreement since 2012. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

More than 120 injured in fire at Russian gas chemical complex, one Chinese worker killed

More than 120 injured in fire at Russian gas chemical complex, one Chinese worker killed

MOSCOW, Aug 25 — At least 19 people were being treated in hospital and more than a hundred more suffered injuries after a fire broke out on Tuesday at a gas chemical complex under construction in Russia’s Far East, killing one Chinese national. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

North Korea preparing further Russia troop deployments, no sign move imminent, Seoul says

North Korea preparing further Russia troop deployments, no sign move imminent, Seoul says

SEOUL, Aug 24 — South Korea’s Defence Ministry said North Korea was continuing preparations for an additional troop deployment to Russia, but had detected no signs that such a deployment was imminent, according to a South Korean lawmaker’s office. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Mariana, 18 more Brazil cities join Vale-BHP dam collapse compensation deal

Mariana, 18 more Brazil cities join Vale-BHP dam collapse compensation deal

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 — The compensation agreement with miners BHP, Vale and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015 has been joined by 19 new cities, including the one that was the epicenter of the disaster, a Brazilian court said on Thursday. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

South Korea’s Lee backs stronger self-defence, says drills not aimed at North Korea

South Korea’s Lee backs stronger self-defence, says drills not aimed at North Korea

SEOUL, Aug 18 — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called on Tuesday for stronger independent defence capabilities, while saying annual civil-defence exercises coinciding with joint U.S.-South Korea military drills were defensive and not intended to threaten North Korea. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com

Two dead after gas leak at India’s Indo Amines plant

Two dead after gas leak at India’s Indo Amines plant

Aug 17 — Specialty chemicals maker Indo Amines said on Monday two people, including an employee, died on Saturday following a gas leak at its manufacturing facility in Mahad, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. ЧитатьCruise tourism set to grow with new ship terminal Source: www.straitstimes.com