Despite an initial drop in Q1 due to Covid-19, the city-state’s fintech funding landscape hasn’t been as volatile as China and India. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Commissions New Coast Guard Ships to Bolster Defences
Taiwan commissioned the first of a new fleet of coastguard ships on Friday, an advanced catamaran that can be armed with missiles during war, as the island bolsters its defences in the face of what it ... ( read original story ...)
Turkmenistan signs decisions of Council of Foreign Ministers of CIS
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov gave orders to sign the decisions of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Trend reports with reference ... ( read original story ...)
New e-service for entrepreneurs launched in Azerbaijan
The Small and Medium Business Development Agency of Azerbaijan has launched a new e-service, the agency told Trend. As part of the digital transformation program, an opportunity has been created to ... ( read original story ...)
Azerbaijan’s Central Bank to hold deposit auction on Bloomberg platform
By Zeyni Jafarov – Trend: The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will hold a deposit auction for banks on December 14, 2020, to attract 200 million manat ($117.6 million) for a period of 14 days, Trend ... ( read original story ...)
Azerbaijan Deposit Insurance Fund continue compensating clients of closed banks
The depositors of the closed Azerbaijani banks, AtaBank, Amrahbank, NBC Bank and AGBank, were paid compensation for insured deposits worth over 608 million manat ($357.6 million) as of 10, 2020, Trend ... ( read original story ...)
Azerbaijan: Unlawful Strikes in Nagorno-Karabakh
Evidence relating to an attack on October 4, 2020, indicates that multiple strikes hit residential homes in less than a minute suggesting possible bombardment – treating the whole area as a military ... ( read original story ...)
Business activity index in Kazakhstan up
The business activity index in Kazakhstan rose by 0.6 percentage points from 48.8 to 49.4 in Nov, Trend reports citing the National Bank of Kazakhstan. “The growth of the index was largely influenced ... ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka’s Rating Cut at S&P Global to Reflect Default Risk
Sri Lanka’s credit rating was pushed further into junk at S&P Global Ratings, which cited the nation’s deteriorating fiscal position as a risk to the sovereign’s ability to service debt. ( read original story ...)
Asian Hospital Giant Eyes Singapore-to-Turkey Vaccine Push
IHH Healthcare Bhd., Asia’s most valuable hospital group, said it is ready to administer coronavirus vaccine once they are rolled out in the 10 countries it operates in. ( read original story ...)