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Thailand may deliver bigger rate cut to curb baht, Citi says
Bloomberg, Published on 26/09/2025
» Thailand’s central bank could deliver a larger interest-rate cut in October as officials are under pressure to take quick and strong measures to curb the strengthening baht, according to Citigroup Inc.
India allows exports of non-basmati white rice trapped at ports
Reuters, Published on 30/08/2023
» NEW DELHI - India has allowed traders to ship out their non-basmati white rice cargoes sitting at ports due to a sudden ban on exports of the category, a government order said late on Tuesday.
'Love jihad' law threatens women's freedoms in India
Asia focus, Roli Srivastava, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 01/02/2021
» MUMBAI: When Mehak's parents found out she was having a relationship with a Muslim man, they locked her in her bedroom, seized her phone and bank cards and installed security cameras at their home in northern India.
Baht cools as central bank considers measures to temper rally
Bloomberg, Published on 20/11/2020
» The baht is heading for the first weekly drop in a month after the central bank pledged new measures to temper a rally that threatened to derail a nascent recovery in the trade-reliant nation’s exports.
Lockdown stalls Indian rice exports
Reuters, Published on 03/04/2020
» MUMBAI: Indian rice traders have stopped signing new export contracts amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, as labour shortages and logistics disruptions have hampered the delivery of even existing contracts, industry executives say.
Politics by the book
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 20/05/2019
» The Indian election that concluded yesterday -- the results of the six-week voting marathon will be announced on Thursday -- has been fought as much on the ground as in the literary space. Publishers have launched dozens of books on politics and elections since January.
Virtual war
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/03/2018
» The battle lines have been drawn. On one side are the massed forces of the Indian government, represented by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), tax authorities and other state agencies, along with public and private-sector banks. On the other side are the proponents of an ever-expanding number of decentralised, stateless virtual currencies.