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Thai Airways International (THAI) has posted a 155% increase in revenue and a narrower loss in the first quarter of this year with liquidity surging to the highest point since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2020. Announcing its operating performance on Tuesday, the carrier said revenue in the first three months of the year totalled 1.1 billion baht, up 155% from the same period last year. The airline’s improved performance is due to increased passenger and cargo traffic brought on by the reopening of borders and a substantial lifting of public health restrictions. THAI and its subsidiarie… Continue reading “Outlook brighter for cash-strapped THAI”

Growing up in India, I did not have access to the polio vaccine, and the disease paralysed my legs when I was an infant. As a result, I have undergone many surgeries and cannot walk without leg braces and crutches. My story is not unique. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was established in 1988 (I was ten at the time), the disease paralysed an estimated 350,000 children worldwide each year. Thirty-four years later, immunisation campaigns have almost eliminated polio. But unless we fund a new vaccination push today, we risk a resurgence of the disease. The GPEI — which coordi… Continue reading “Funding an end to scourge of polio”

FSSA Greater China Growth Fund – founded on stewardshipStewart Investors Indian Subcontinent Sustainability Fund – sustainability is key to its strategyFidelity Sustainable Asia Equity Fund – invests in companies highly-rated on ESG measuresTara Clee, ESG Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown: “Asia is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change and yet it’s also a key contributor to global warming. Some of this can be mitigated by deploying cleaner energy, more sustainable construction practices, electric vehicles and addressing the agriculture industry. Fortunately for investors, the infrast… Continue reading “Asia Holds The Key To A Green Future – 3 Funds To Consider”

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police arrested a would-be suicide bomber who planned to blow herself up near a convoy of Chinese nationals along the China Pakistan Economic-Corridor (CPEC), a police statement said. Monday’s arrest came two weeks after a woman suicide bomber blew herself up on a university campus in the southern port city of Karachi, killing three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver. Police arrested the militant in southwestern Balochistan province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, the statement said. She belongs to the separatist Baloch Liberation Arm… Continue reading “Pakistan says it foiled suspected suicide attack against Chinese nationals”

A suicide bomber killed three children and three soldiers in an attack on a military vehicle in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. The mountainous frontier separating Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been a hive of militant activity, with fighters using the porous border to escape state security forces. Deeply saddened by the martyrdom of three soldiers of Pakistan Army & three children in a suicide attack in Miran Shah. Blood of our soldiers & citizens is a debt on us that we will repay by eradicating terrorism from our country. Heartfelt … Continue reading “Three children, three soldiers killed in Pakistan suicide blast”

Screenshot of the cover page of the Freedom Network Annual State of Press Freedom Report 2021-22. Fair use. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Pakistan-based independent media and civil liberties organization Freedom Network released a report that revealed that journalists in Pakistan have been targeted mostly by state actors in the past one year (May 2021 to April 2022) during the now ousted Imran Khan government, resulting in violence, legal cases, abductions, detentions and threats. Pakistan also registered a steep decline of 12 points in the World Press Freedom Index 2022. Accordi… Continue reading “Pakistan drops 12 points on World Press Freedom Index 2022”

A key bridge serving a remote corner of northern Pakistan has collapsed after a heatwave caused a glacial lake to burst and unleash flash flooding, the country’s climate minister said. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change, ranking eighth in a table of countries most affected by extreme weather, according to a study by environmental group Germanwatch. Recent record temps in Pakistan reaching 117° Fahrenheit are making glaciers melt so fast it’s causing massive floods. One glacial flood, captured below, was so bad it wiped out the Hassanabad Bridge connecting Pakistan and China. pic.t… Continue reading “Flash flooding sweeps away Pakistan bridge”

India and Pakistan have rejected World Health Organisation (WHO) data saying that their Covid-19 related death tolls were many times the official figures reported by the two countries. A WHO report stated that the real number of Covid-related deaths in India and Pakistan were 4.7 million and 260,000 respectively – ten and eight times the official figures released by New Delhi and Islamabad. Covid pandemic has caused the deaths of nearly 4.5 million people in india and 2.5 lac in Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates. #covid #WHO https://t.co/iwPa04GmEH — ZeeshanHaiderBBC (@Ze… Continue reading “India, Pakistan challenge WHO over Covid-related deaths”