As Indonesia continues to confront the economic and health consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the nation can do more to leverage a critical untapped resource—the power of women business ... ( read original story ...)
Hungry Fund Managers Are Angry With India
Global investors are urging the Securities and Exchange Board of India to fix the upstairs market. “Our members think that India’s price band for the block window should be at least +/- 7% as in Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Gordon Campbell On The Pope’s Visit To Iraq
As an exercise in global symbolic politics, it would be hard to top last week’s meeting in Iraq between Pope Francis and the most respected cleric in Shia Islam, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. ( read original story ...)
Tech Shares May Weigh On South Korea Stock Market
The South Korea stock market has finished higher in back-to-back trading days, advancing almost 100 points or 3.1 percent along the way. The KOSPI now rests just above the 3,050-point plateau although ... ( read original story ...)
#MeToo-style reckoning over school bullying rocks South Korea
“We still live with trauma after all these years because of what they have done to us," former teammates shared in a post about twin volleyball stars. ( read original story ...)
‘Productive’ talks over Singapore travel bubble, Japan and South Korea could follow
Australia has held “productive discussions” with Singapore over a travel bubble, and South Korea and Japan could follow, the Deputy Prime Minister says. ( read original story ...)
Coupang…The Amazon Of South Korea?
L ast week, Coupang – which is the largest e-commerce operator in South Korea – pulled off the largest IPO of the year in the U.S. equities markets. The company raised a hefty ... ( read original story ...)
Reports: At Least 39 Killed as Myanmar Imposes Martial Law in Yangon Suburb
Security forces on Sunday killed at least 39 people, 22 of them in a suburb of Yangon, the country’s main city, reports out of Myanmar say, in what would be the bloodiest day of protests against the ... ( read original story ...)
Dozens dead in bloody weekend of demonstrations in Myanmar
Violence has escalated as coup leaders try to disrupt a sweeping movement of protests and civil disobedience, six weeks after a military takeover in Myanmar. Hundreds of homes have been devastated by ... ( read original story ...)
Days of Killings and Defiance in Myanmar, With Neither Side Relenting
By Richard C. Paddock Soldiers and police officers shot and killed at least 51 people in Myanmar over the weekend, as they pressed their campaign of attrition against protesters who have defied them ... ( read original story ...)