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Kathmandu / DPA Nepal plans to ask China to provide duty-free access to around 400 new products with export potential during Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s visit to Beijing scheduled to start on March 20, officials of the Foreign and Commerce ministries said. Nepali traders can presently export 8,030 products to China without paying import duty, but they have been ...

Emirates Business Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, and organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), the fifth edition of Crisis and Emergency Management Conference (CEMC) 2016 began on Sunday at St. Regis Resort Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. The two-day conference titled ‘Innovative approaches towards a safe ...

Bloomberg Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed to make it harder for foreign automakers to claim that their cars are made in the U.S., as she tries to recruit Rust Belt voters following a surprise defeat in Michigan. At a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Clinton called for tougher “rules of origin,” the means used to determine whether a product ...

Geneva / AFP Syria’s warring sides prepared on Sunday for a new round of peace talks after locking horns over the fate of President Bashar Al Assad, with the regime insisting his ouster was a “red line” while the opposition vowed to see him go—dead or alive. The UN-brokered indirect negotiations are due to begin in Geneva on Monday, the ...

Bloomberg A day after violent protests prompted Donald Trump to cancel a rally, the Republican presidential front-runner blamed the activist group MoveOn.Org and supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders for the chaos, while defending his own “harassed” supporters. “When they have organized, professionally staged wise-guys—we’ve got to fight back. We’ve got to fight back,” Trump said at an event in Dayton, ...

Seoul / AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party braced for a backlash in key state polls on Sunday over the German leader’s liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD prepared to scoop up the protest vote from angry voters. More than 12 million voters headed to the ballot box to elect three new regional parliaments for the southwestern states of ...

Bloomberg President Barack Obama has narrowed to three finalists a list of potential US Supreme Court nominees to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, all of them federal appeals judges, according to a person familiar with the matter. The candidates are Merrick Garland, Sri Srinivasan and Paul Watford, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the details ...

MEXICO / AP US-based Gulf Oil LP said it is entering Mexico’s gasoline retail market, becoming the first foreign company to do so under an energy overhaul that loosened more than seven decades of government monopoly in the sector. The company will open its first four gas stations in Mexico in June and July and aims to operate at least ...

New Delhi / Bloomberg Asia needs to take a leadership role in the global economy that reflects the continent’s growing clout, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. Asian officials should keep monetary policy supportive, while using fiscal policy to boost growth and macro-prudential measures to protect financial stability, Lagarde said in a speech on Saturday in New Delhi. ...

Bloomberg U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is sticking to his guns. Tripped up by an economy proving weaker than forecast and with lower tax revenues as a result, Osborne is set to use his budget on March 16 to deliver even more austerity to meet a legally binding pledge of a fiscal surplus by the end of the ...