China eyes India trade by boosting spending in Nepal

Newly-appointed Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan said on Wednesday that he is optimistic about the prospect of Sino-Myanmar relations and is full of confidence in the development of the bilateral ties although the two countries' relations ...

KATHMANDU: Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi is arriving on a two-day goodwill visit to Nepal on May 18. Yang, who retired from Foreign Minister in March and was promoted to the post of State Councilor, will be the highest official from northern ...

A key reform group in Burma has held talks with U.S. and China envoys to highlight the need to repeal a law that can throw former political prisoners back into jail and to bring about transparency in Chinese investments criticized over environmental ...

A 12-member delegation from Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) left for a 10-day trip to Beijing on Tuesday at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party, NLD spokesman Nyan Win told Mizzima. Chinese Ambassador Yang Houlan ...

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When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Burmese counterpart U. Thein Sein in Sanya on April 5, the usual sunny platitudes about enhancing all-round cooperation were dampened by veiled references to the threat of Western encroachment in the ...

New Delhi has a given thumbs down to a proposal for trilateral cooperation involving Nepal, India and China. It is too early to work on trilateral cooperation, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid told a group of visiting Nepali journalists at ...

The Arniko Highway - Yes, "highway"... - ( Dr Michel Royon / Wikimedia Commons) By Benoit Hopquin LE MONDE/Worldcrunch KHADICHAUR - Araniko Highway, connecting Kathmandu to the Nepal-China border, doesn't look much like a highway. It is narrow ...

China is intensifying efforts to regain influence in Myanmar as its long-held dominance founders in the face of a transformation in its former army-ruled neighbour, the experts say. Observers say long-time ally Beijing had assumed the end of junta ...