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South Africans go online to document police brutality
Strict enforcement of South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown by police and the army has placed the spotlight on official brutality, a cause of anger among the majority Black population for decades.
Quality foreign education in pandemic times
THE Covid-19 pandemic has to be the first widespread pandemic in the modern era to have disrupted progress at all levels across the entire globe.
South Africans push back against 5G towers in their backyards
Tens of thousands of South Africans have written complaints to the government over a new policy that would let mobile networks build cellphone infrastructure like 5G towers on private land, which they say could devalue their property.
Final race to join Lagarde’s inner sanctum starting soon
THE final chance for more than half a decade to reshape the European Central Bank’s (ECB) inner sanctum of policy making will soon spark a tussle for influence between the region’s smaller countries.
World Bank: Vietnam a rising star in gloomy global economy
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Experts from the World Bank said Vietnam was a rising star amid the Covid-19 pandemic, ranking the country 5th fastest growing economy.
Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City close non-essential businesses as Covid-19 cases spike in Danang
BANGKOK (The Straits Times/ANN): Faced with its single biggest daily increase in coronavirus infections, Vietnam has swung into full battle mode, shutting bars and suspending events in its biggest cities while trying to contain the situation in Danang, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.
Economics hotshot named new Thai central bank governor
BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): A Government House source said the Cabinet on Wednesday (July 29) approved prime minister’s adviser Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput as the new Bank of Thailand (BOT) governor.
White House to lure US firms to Latam from Asia
WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES: The Trump administration is readying a new initiative that would use financial incentives to encourage U.S. firms to move production facilities out of Asia and into the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, a senior White House adviser said on Wednesday.
Thai central bank names Sethaput new chief
BANGKOK: Thailand’s cabinet has named Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, the prime minister’s economic adviser and a former senior World Bank economist, as the next central bank governor, a government house source said.
Philippines debt soars past US$180bil in June as govt borrows more
MANILA (Xinhua): The Philippines' outstanding debt soared past 9 trillion pesos (roughly US$183.9 billion) as of end-June as the government borrowed more to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the country's Bureau of Treasury said on Wednesday (July 29).
