"We will leave. The question is when we leave," said Biden, who signaled that the longest war in US history will end within the year. ( read original story ...)
South Korea’s Chip Industry Is Caught Between China and the U.S.
South Korea has long relied on the U.S. for security and on China for trade, seeking to keep politics out of business to avoid picking sides. That geopolitical balancing act is becoming increasingly ... ( read original story ...)
Threat of Demotion Spurs Japan Firms to Shake Up Stock Register
Japanese policymakers may have found the one thing that can force executives to simplify their arcane capital structures -- threatening their status in the elite grouping of Japan’s top firms. ( read original story ...)
Sustainable Dev Strategy Green Finance Disclosure In Bangladesh
Bangladesh, a developing economy ... (Dr. Akther is an Assistant Professor of School of Business at the University of Creative Technology Chittagong. He can be reached by this email: ... ( read original story ...)
India: Byju’s in talks to raise up to $700 m at nearly $15b valuation
Byju’s is raising money from a clutch of new investors based in the US, making it the edtech unicorn’s first fundraising round for 2021. ( read original story ...)
Myanmar coup: 7-year-old died in her father’s arms after being shot by security forces
She died in her father’s arms on the way to the clinic. At just 7 years old, Khin Myo Chit became the youngest victim of Myanmar’s increasingly bloody coup Tuesday, gunned down by security forces at ... ( read original story ...)
‘It’s too painful, daddy’: Last words of seven-year-old girl who became the youngest victim of army brutality in Myanmar when she was gunned down as she tried to run into her …
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Khin Myo Chit was shot inside her home when security forces opened fire in the Chan Mya Thazi township, a suburb of Myanmar on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
Fire rips through Thailand’s infamous ‘Airplane Graveyard’
The wasteland with an old Boeing 747 and two McDonnell Douglas MD-82 is described as one of the most unusual abandoned places in the world to explore. ( read original story ...)
Donald Trump ‘betrayed’ Iran leaving Biden with mounting tensions – ‘A stab in the back!’
DONALD TRUMP "left a deep sense of betrayal" in Iran after withdrawing from the nuclear deal during his time at the White House, according to an expert. ( read original story ...)
43 senators to Biden: Use “full force” of diplomatic, economic tools to check Iran
Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged President Biden in a letter Thursday to use "the full force of our diplomatic and economic tools" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear ... ( read original story ...)