BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD), in … Since April 2020, banks and finance companies have been providing assistance to help alleviate …
Over Half of Passports in Cyprus Citizenship Scheme Sold Illegally
Over half of the passports sold in Cyprus’ now-scrapped citizenship-for-investment scheme were granted illegally to people who did not qualify for naturalization and despite possible “conflicts of …
Major projects expenditure totals QR15bn in first quarter: Ministry of Finance
Expenditure on major projects during the first quarter (Q1) of this year totalled about QR15bn, or 20.8% of the 2021 budget, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.
Qatar posts small surplus in Q1, sees no new borrowing for 2021 budget
Qatar posted a 200 million riyals ($55 million) surplus in the first quarter this year, helped by a recovery in oil prices which means the government will not need to raise new debt to cover the …
OurCrowd: Things in Israel are Firing on All Cylinders
OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved held a virtual press briefing commenting on both the marketplace in Israel and the performance of OurCrowd in a pretty hot investment environment. Recently, it was …
Jordan, EU and UNDP sign 5-million-euro agreement
The Ministry of Interior, the European Union Delegation in Jordan, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Administration signed a five-million …
Al-Jaafari calls for dealing with situation in Syria through objective, true way
Damascus, SANA-Deputy Foreign and expatriates Minister, Bashar al-Jaafari, called for removing illegitimate western economic measures imposed on Syria and “reading the situation in the country with tr …
A Syrian refugee, a Scottish island – migrant movie ‘Limbo’ takes you places you might not expect
A sensitive Syrian musician seeking asylum after fleeing his country’s civil war winds up on a small, windswept Scottish island in the Hebrides in “Limbo,” writer-director Ben Sharrock’s sensitive, …
Vietnam’s first unicorn bets on AI and overseas growth
Khai is executive vice president at VNG, a gaming startup-turned-tech conglomerate that has become Vietnam’s first unicorn. The Columbia-educated computer scientist also heads Zalo AI, the VNG …
BB asked to submit Q1 green finance report by May 31
Bangladesh Bank on Thursday asked the country’s all scheduled banks and financial institutes to submit their quarterly (January to March) report on sustainable finance by May 31.Currently, the banks …