(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s stock market opened after a seven-week trading halt only to shutter within minutes following a more than 10% drop in a gauge of blue chip shares, highlighting the risks of a ... ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka- Rebalancing international politics and internal economics
It rings similar to the successful efforts of Sri Lanka and neighbouring Maldives to attract tourists from new and untapped markets, when the West was caught under the 'global economic melt-down'. ( read original story ...)
She Saved Saudi Arabia. Can She Save the World From Cyber Warfare?
Chris Kubecka, a military veteran and child genius, is at the front lines of keeping us safe online amid the pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia triples VAT rate as oil revenues tumble
Business Saudi Arabia triples VAT rate as oil revenues tumble. Posted . Saudi Arabia will triple its value added tax rate and suspend a cost of living allowance for state employee ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Arabia triples taxes, cuts $26B in costs amid pandemic
Saudi Arabia has tripled taxes on basic goods, raising them to 15%, and has announced spending cuts of around $26 billion as it grapples with blows from the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices on ... ( read original story ...)
McCarthyism, Cold War, Iraq War, weasels: China on the attack against the U.S.
This language echoes previous threats by China, including before it expelled journalists for three American newspapers, and comes as a bitter diplomatic row between China and the United States plumbs ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea races to contain new outbreak tied to Seoul clubs
South Korea is scrambling to get a new COVID-19 outbreak under control as cases connected to a patient who visited several Seoul nightlife venues at the beginning of May mount. ( read original story ...)
South Korea struggles to contain new outbreak amid anti-gay backlash
Fears people will fail to get tested out of fear after new cases linked to Seoul gay district ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus latest: South Korea delays reopening schools as fears rise over new cluster
South Korea delays reopening schools as fears rise over new cluster South Korea has been forced to delay reopening schools, which it had planned to do this week, as efforts to relax social distancing ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea nightclub cases highlight fear of virus 2nd wave
The difficulty in trying to reopen economies without rekindling coronavirus outbreaks was highlighted on Monday as concern grew in South Korea about a second wave ... ( read original story ...)