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April 29, 2025

President signs bill prohibiting child marriage into law
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2025 into law, which fixes minimum age for marriage at 18. According to the legislation, no Nikah Khuwan will solemnize a marriage if either or both parties are under the age of 18. Nikah khuwan found violating this law may face up…
U.S.-China talks ‘a bit stalled’ and need Trump and Xi to weigh in, Treasury Secret Bessent says
BEIJING — U.S.-China trade talks “are a bit stalled,” requiring the two countries’ leaders to speak directly, Treasury Secret Scott Bessent told Fox News in an interview Thursday local time. “I believe that we will be having more talks with them in the next few weeks,” he said, adding that there may be a call…
Mahathir says China will be ‘No. 1 country in the world’
TOKYO — Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that China is destined to be the most prominent country, and that the U.S. will be unable to stop its rise given Washington’s increasingly inward-looking nature. Speaking at Nikkei’s annual Future of Asia conference in Tokyo on Friday, Mahathir said U.S. President Donald Trump “resents the…
Philippines seeks rules-based maritime order amid global turbulance
TOKYO — The Philippine foreign minister, amid rising tensions with China over its maritime expansion in the South China Sea, on Friday strongly urged ASEAN and China to quickly establish norms based on international law. “The Philippines does not accept, and indeed rejects, narratives that depict the South China Sea merely as a theater for…
Six dead gray whales found in San Francisco Bay area in the last week
Six dead gray whales have been found in the area of San Francisco Bay over the last week, officials said Wednesday, in a year when there has been an unusually high number of sightings in the area. The gray whales were found dead from May 21 to Wednesday, when one was found washed ashore at…
SK Group chairman proposes joint South Korea-Japan purchase of US gas
TOKYO — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, a heavyweight in South Korean business circles, has proposed that his country and Japan jointly purchase liquefied natural gas from the U.S. in response to Washington’s pressure to buy more American goods. Chey told Nikkei Asia that he is proposing this idea to South Korean and Japanese businesses…
Brunson, Towns carry Knicks to 111-94 victory, cutting Pacers’ series lead to 3-2
NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson scored 32 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 13 rebounds despite a bruised left knee and the New York Knicks stayed alive in the Eastern Conference finals by beating the Indiana Pacers 111-94 on Thursday night in Game 5. The Knicks won on their home floor for the first…
Australia’s ‘green’ iron debate grows as China targets steel emissions
SYDNEY — Debate is heating up in Australia over how the world’s largest supplier of iron ore and metallurgical coal should respond to a growing push for more environmentally friendly metals, especially in China, the country’s biggest customer. Last week, Andrew Forrest, boss of the country’s third-largest iron ore miner Fortescue, warned rivals that the…
Bangladesh clothes sector hit by trade barriers, internal turmoil
DHAKA — Double-digit growth in Bangladesh’s vital garments sector has put an unexpected gloss on an industry battling U.S. tariffs, Indian trade restrictions and continued domestic political upheaval — a perfect storm of internal and external challenges that threatens to substantially crimp that expansion. The latest trade blow to the ready-made garments (RMG) sector, which…