In Bangladesh's rural heartlands, which are prone to flooding, a silent revolution is happening; Mobile Fintech platforms are becoming important ways for climate-driven investments to flow. Villagers ...
Thai tycoon Anutin takes office as PM after royal endorsement
BANGKOK] Thai tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul took office as prime minister on Sunday (Sep 7), after an endorsement from the king started the conservative’s tenure as the nation’s new leader. Read more at ...
Five weak banks are to be merged into a larger ‘Islami’ bank. But will the ploy work?
It will be a strong bank, a big bank, with the most capital… customers will get their money back on time,” the governor says ...
Sri Mulyani Overhauls Indonesia’s Financial System Stability Committee
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has restructured the organization & work procedures of the Secretariat of Financial System Stability Committee ...
Turkey Imposes 8% Tax on Yachts, Ending Luxury Exemption
Turkey has slapped an 8% special consumption tax on yachts, motorboats and other pleasure craft, ending a zero-rate exemption that had applied to luxury vessels.
Google services were down in Turkey, parts of Europe
Some Google services including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according to a Turkish deputy minister, internet monitors and ...
Fires, earthquakes and inflation are putting tourists off Turkey
This year there have also been hundreds of earthquakes in the Aegean, sparking fears that a really big one is coming. And on top of it all is Turkey’s inflation, which stood at 33.5% year on year in ...
Turkey Opposition Calls Extraordinary Congress to Shield Leader
Turkey’s main opposition is seeking to hold extraordinary congress on Sept. 21 in a bid to bolster its leadership after a court challenge threatened to unseat its chairman.
How Vietnam walked into a population emergency
The fertility rate fell to 1.91 last year, below the "replacement" threshold of 2.1 births per woman considered necessary to keep a population stable. The shift follows decades of rapid economic ...
Vietnam Aug exports keep strong, PM warns of mounting inflation pressure
Vietnam's exports in August rose 14.5% from a year earlier to $43.39 billion, government data showed on Saturday, the first trade figures since a tariff of 20% on shipments to the United States took ...