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Covid-19 weighs on remittances, putting plans on hold for millions
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Like many families in the village of Semerak, in Central Java, Pipit Wahyudi, 26, and his father as well as his older brother could count on an infusion of about 5 million rupiah (US$350) every month since his mother started work as a housekeeper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, about a decade ago.
More bad news for Khairulnizam as Asian meet called off
PETALING JAYA: National sailor Khairulnizam Afendy’s journey to the Tokyo Olympics has been far from plain sailing.
Global reach of vaccines from China hailed
GENEVA: China’s vaccines have been making a crucial contribution to the global Covid-19 response as an ever-increasing number of countries receive the vital supplies –much of them donated, experts said.
Asian digital currency gets PBoC support
BEIJING: China has joined a multilateral central bank digital currency project in Asia for real-time cross-border transactions like cross-border fund transfers, international trade settlements and capital market transactions, amid renewed global efforts to promote the use of digitalised legal tenders.
Israel, Bahrain leaders discuss Iran, possible vaccine plant
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa on Thursday discussed Iran and the possible involvement of the Gulf state in establishing a vaccine plant in Israel, the two countries said.
Dubai's Latifa urged UK police to reopen sister's kidnap case, BBC reports
LONDON (Reuters) - Sheikha Latifa, one of the daughters of the ruler of Dubai, has written to British police asking them to reopen their investigation into the kidnap of her older sister from a street in Cambridge in 2000, the BBC reported on Thursday.
U.N. aid chief urges Gulf states to step up to avert Yemen famine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock urged Gulf states to step up next Monday when the world body seeks to avert a large-scale "man-made" famine in Yemen by raising $3.85 billion for humanitarian operations in the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country for 2021.
Tech firms say there’s little doubt Russia behind major hack
Leading technology companies said on Feb 23 that a months-long breach of US corporate and government networks was so sophisticated, focused and labour-intensive that a nation had to be behind it, with all the evidence pointing to Russia.
More women holding senior corporate roles
Almost half of senior leadership positions in mid-market businesses in the Philippines are now held by women, the highest proportion among the 29 large economies surveyed annually by global consultancy firm Grant Thornton.
From Seoul to Dubai, some of the world's initiatives for cutting food waste
From taxing the creators of waste, to repurposing leftovers from hotel restaurants and authorising the sale of expired foods, here's a look at some countries' initiatives to help reduce food waste.
