SEOUL : South Korean authorities are exploring ways to divert some the domestic pension fund’s foreign currency needs as they try to put a floor under a rapidly weakening won. The country’s central bank is reviewing a currency swap with the National Pension Service to sate the fund’s dollar needs, […]
Day: September 22, 2022
NEW YORK: The top US and Chinese diplomats meet today in New York as soaring tensions show signs of easing, but Beijing issued a new warning against support for Taiwan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are set to meet on the sidelines of the […]
SYDNEY: Australia is aiming for a stable relationship with China despite differences in particular on trade, Australia’s foreign minister said, as she called on China to use its influence as a great power to help end the war in Ukraine. Australia’s ties with its largest trading partner are at a […]
NEW YORK: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will face off today with his Ukrainian and Western counterparts, including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, when the United Nations Security Council meets over atrocities committed in Ukraine. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan will brief the […]