The arbitration comes after Qatar earlier this month won a procedural dispute before the United Nations’ highest court. ( read original story ...)
AIIB approves $50mln loan for Georgia to ease impact of coronavirus
TBILISI- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said on Wednesday it had approved a 45 million euro ($50 million) loan to Georgia to support the South Caucasus country's economy and provide ... ( read original story ...)
Will Hong Kong become like tightly-ruled but stable Singapore?
Limited democracy but high living standards and stability form a trade-off that most Singaporeans seem willing to live with -- and some now suggest rival Asian finance hub Hong Kong can emulate the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Tharman calls for ‘activist’ policymaking over big government post-pandemic
Debt-fuelled crisis spending by governments may not last and the wealthy must share the burden to help the less well-off, former finance minister says. ( read original story ...)
Lebanon hires US firm for central bank probe
Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni asked for a week to prepare documents to sign the contract for the audit, which could take between three and six months ... ( read original story ...)
China Fishing Boats May Breach North Korea Sanctions, Group Says
Hundreds of industrial fishing vessels originating from China have been detected in North Korean waters in recent years in one of the largest known cases of cross-national illegal fishing, new ... ( read original story ...)
N. Korea’s Kim visits chicken farm. calls for improvements
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new chicken farm being built in a county south of capital Pyongyang and called for improvements to what he described as an outdated poultry industry, ... ( read original story ...)
Invitation to DNO H1 2020 Investor/Analyst Call
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, will publish its operating and financial results for the first half of 2020 on 30 July 2020 at 07:00 (CET). A teleconference call with executive management ... ( read original story ...)
Iran Planning to Lever Financial Assets Held Abroad to Balance Own Currency Rate
The Iranian government has unveiled plans to use foreign currency reserve assets abroad for balancing domestic exchange rates, which have experienced extreme volatility over the past week, President ... ( read original story ...)
Next Turkey Rate Move May Be Up But It’s Set to Hold for Now
(Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s first interest-rate hike since 2018 may be in play later this year but economists are unanimously predicting the central bank will extend its current pause on Thursday.As the ... ( read original story ...)