by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, January 4, 2023Lalita’s husband, Rajan, doesn’t have free time to think these days. His brain is occupied by a loan of Rs290,000, which he paid to a Chinese agent two months ago to enable his sick wife to return from a Laos-based call centre. Rajan, 35, is now learning the Korean language and is into ride-sharing gigs, so that he can pay his four-year-old son’s monthly school fee…
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Report in Sunday Times, Jan 1, 2023In recent months, there have been some high-level visits to the North by diplomats based in Colombo–particularly, those from the Chinese Embassy. When one considers geopolitical gravitational pulls, it is understandable why the Chinese are interested in the Northern region, whichis socially and culturally closer to the state of Tamil Nadu in India just across the Palk Strait. Earlier this week, a high level delegation led by the Chinese…
zreport in ToloNews, Dec 31, 2022 at3:08 PMDa Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the country’s power distributor, said Chinese investors have expressed willingness to invest in coal-fired power in Afghanistan. According to a statement by the DABS, the investment will produce 500 megawatts of electricity. “The technical delegations of DABS and China through joint meetings will discuss all issues on how to produce electricity from coal and the result of the meetings will be shared with…
report on ECONOMYNEXT.COM, Dec 22, 2022 at8:52 pm– The delay in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board approval on a $2.9 billion loan for Sri Lanka is not only due to a dragging Chinese debt restructuring talks, a top official who is directly involved with the debt restructuring negotiation said. “We can’t say it is China. In fact, we can’t say it is a delay because the bilateral creditors have asked for more information and…