Last weekend, just before the first phase of voting in India’s 16th general election opened, a group of people gathered in Delhi for a “nation-building” meeting. For two days they thrashed and turned in their search for a better alternative to the choices facing the nation. They were exercised by the epic corruption and mis-governance,…
14 April 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited ISLAMABAD, April 14 (Reuters) – Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror, said on Monday American policies were polarising the world between Muslims and non-Muslims, and creating a highly charged and potentially violent atmosphere. Criticising the use of force against Iraq, Interior…
15 April 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited ISLAMABAD, April 15 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign minister on Tuesday warned India of massive retaliation if it tried to launch a pre-emptive strike on his country, arguing that Islamabad had a more advanced missile programme than New Delhi. Mian Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri described as “irresponsible”…
27 May 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters) – South Korea is encouraged by North Korea’s softer stance on talks about its nuclear ambitions and there are signs Pyongyang may be prepared to reach a deal, Seoul’s top foreign policy adviser told Reuters on Tuesday. Ban Ki-moon, who…
12 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) – China has not ruled out another big bailout of its ailing state-run banking sector but sees signs the banks have turned a corner and are on track to meet foreign competition, the country’s new banking regulator said on Friday.…
12 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) – China’s new banking regulator said on Friday foreign banks should begin making up lost ground and challenge local peers within months, dismissing concerns they are losing market share in a potentially highly lucrative market. Foreign banks now command a…
15 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited TAIPEI, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Taiwan will permit its banks to do business in China next year if mainland regulators grant the island some supervisory authority and allow banks to accept local currency deposits, Taiwan’s top policymaker on China said on Monday. A week after…
15 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited TAIPEI, Sept 15 (Reuters) – China is to blame for growing frustrations in Taiwan that have bubbled over into popular demands for the island to change its official name, a senior policymaker said on Monday. The official made clear the government had sympathy with a…
15 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited TAIPEI, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Taiwan still holds the upper hand against China in trade competition but will open direct links with the mainland only in stages because of security and economic risks, the island’s top policymaker on China said on Monday. Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman…
16 September 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited TAIPEI, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Douglas Paal, Washington’s unofficial ambassador to Taipei, must choose his words carefully as he navigates the treacherous shoals of politics across the Taiwan Strait. Yet on the subject of SARS his language is unusually blunt. Faced with a medical…
17 October 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters) – South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun dismissed North Korea’s threat to prove it has a nuclear deterrent as pre-talks bluster on Friday and said Pyongyang was really after regime survival and aid rather than atomic weapons. In an interview at the…
9 December 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited BOMBAY, Dec 9 (Reuters) – India’s largest truck and bus maker Tata, riding a dramatic return to profits and fuelled by new global ambitions, expects to see explosive growth starting in 2006, a senior executive said on Tuesday. Ravi Kant, executive director of the commercial…
9 December 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited BOMBAY, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Hindalco Industries, a leading Indian maker of non-ferrous metals, aims to expand its aluminium and copper capacity through expansion and acquisitions to attain global reach, its managing director said on Tuesday. Hindalco is the flagship of India’s third-largest conglomerate by…
11 December 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – India hopes to reduce its dependence on imported crude to half its requirement in seven years from 70 percent as a result of new domestic oil and gas discoveries, Oil Minister Ram Naik told Reuters on Thursday. “This…