The report tiled 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2023 said Mumbai now boasts of 92 billionaires, overtaking Beijing's count and solidifying its status as a thriving center for wealth creation.
Beijing, the Chinese capital, has been confirmed as the host of the 2029 World Aquatics Championships
In the presidential elections held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai emerged victorious.
A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office insisted that the election result "does not represent the mainstream view on the island".
The most recent report issued in 2022, the year when Beijing ended the ‘zero-Covid’ policy, showed that only 7 per cent of the graduating class, including both undergraduates and graduates, chose to study abroad.
Human beings can be hugely creative. Although population increased eight times from 1 billion to over 8 billion between year 1800 and now, they are able, by and large, to meet their needs in a better way now compared to then, avoiding for the most part the devastating famines of those times.
With Presidential elections due in a little more than six months, and with the outcome expected to directly impact ties with Beijing and geostrategic equations in the IndoPacific, Taiwan is being rocked by a succession of allegations of sexual harassment, primarily targeting members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
As a democratic, affluent country which has punched below its weight in the international system, South Korea now appears ready to carve out a larger role for itself.
Such symbolic demonstrations of support risk entrapping Taiwan in an escalating Sino-US rivalry and undermining its security.
The Taiwan issue was not the only one to feature in the Paraguay poll. Indeed, the economy, plagued by rising fiscal deficits and slow growth figures, and corruption were major issues that dominated the discourse.
