KATHMANDU, March 2: Finance Minister Janardan Sharma on Wednesday acknowledged that there are manipulations taking place at the secondary market that have impacted the daily transactions of stocks.

SYDNEY – Since 2018, large antigovernment protests—what some term the Arab Spring 2.0—have reverberated across the Middle East. Protesters decry corruption, sectarianism, and economic stagnation. Like the Arab uprisings a decade ago, these protests have successfully unseated key leaders—prime ministers have resigned in Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan, and long-term dictators were toppled in Sudan and Algeria.

The US has accused China of keeping renminbi artificially low, to secure an unfair advantage in international trade. But it had not applied “currency manipulator” label since 1994