The Philippines has so far raised $106.3 billion (approximately P5.13 trillion) in funds this year from tax collections, other revenues and borrowings combined, the Department of Finance said ... ( read original story ...)
Japan finmin: G20 finance heads endorse common framework for developing world debt
Financial leaders of the Group of 20 major economies on Friday endorsed a "Common Framework" for treating debt of developing countries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese Finance Minister ... ( read original story ...)
IMF Programme For Pakistan Unlikely To Be Back on Track Soon: Report
The International Monetary Fund Executive board approved a three-year, USD 6 billion loan package for Pakistan in July last year to rein in mounting debts and stave off a looming balance of payments ... ( read original story ...)
Turkmenistan’s President Has Installed a 19-Foot-Tall Gold Statue of His Favorite Dog in the Nation’s Capital
The president of Turkmenistan, a brutally repressive regime, has erected a 19-foot gold statue of the Central Asian Shepherd in the capital. ( read original story ...)
European Company to Add Cold-Storage Warehouse, 200 Jobs in Lebanon
A Netherlands-based company has announced plans to invest $150 million and create up to 200 jobs by building a cold-storage facility in Lebanon. NewCold says the 380,000-square-foot warehouse will be ... ( read original story ...)
Kazakhstan and Canada agree to develop co-op in aerospace industry
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13 The topic of cooperation was discussed during a meeting of Kazakhstan-Canada business council held in a video conference format. ... ( read original story ...)
A Decade Later, this Afghanistan Special Operation Story is Finally Coming to the Screen
"Ashley's War" will tell the story of the all-female CST-2 unit that fought alongside Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan. ( read original story ...)
AFM: CEO of South Korea’s Megabox Talks Netflix Partnership, Creating the Next ‘Parasite’
PST 11/13/2020 by Patrick Brzeski FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kim Jin-sun, whose Megabox controls 20 percent of South Korean movie screens, explains how he courted Netflix to release David Fincher's ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand urged to open up to foreign skilled labour, cut red tape on foreign investment
US Ambassador Michael George DeSombre and his counterparts from Australia, Britain, Germany and Japan have urged the Thai government to ease business restrictions in Thailand in order to attract more ... ( read original story ...)
Perspectives | How Iran views the Nagorno-Karabakh truce
First, Khamenei stressed the need for Armenia to return the districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan and for Azerbaijani IDPs expelled during the first Karabakh war in the 1990s to be ... ( read original story ...)