Taiwan is dangling incentives to attract more than NT$40 billion ($1.3 billion) of annual investments in research and technology, creating a seven-year blueprint to safeguard the island’s lead in ... ( read original story ...)
What does the future of Maldives tourism look like?
Located in the Arabian Sea of the Indian Ocean, The Maldives over the years has transformed itself to one of the world’s leading tourism destinations, with its clear waters, pleasant climate and ... ( read original story ...)
New online services unveiled to streamline business operations in Bahrain
MANAMA: Even as some logistics business owners say documentation and shipment clearing is plagued by delays, Bahrain’s Port and Maritime Affairs within the Transportation and Telecommunications ... ( read original story ...)
Kuwait Doesn’t Want To Be An Expat-Majority Nation Anymore
Kuwait's Prime Minister has said the country's expatriate population should be more than halved to 30% of the total, as the coronavirus pandemic and a slump in oil prices send shudders through Gulf ... ( read original story ...)
Kuwait adopts stimulus package aimed at saving 73,000 private sector jobs
Kuwait’s government has adopted a rescue package aimed at curbing the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. The package includes bills concerning public debt and bankruptcy designed to help ... ( read original story ...)
Food wastage in Saudi, UAE significantly higher than in US and Europe
UAE aims to join top 10 countries in Global Food Security Index by 2021 and become ... is the inability to successfully mitigate long established unsustainable lifestyle attributes in the region. ( read original story ...)
Nepal economy to suffer $1.4 billion hit due to coronavirus – central bank official
Nepal's economy is expected to suffer a hit of over $1 billion due to coronavirus containment measures which have hurt business activity and tourism in the Himalayan nation, a central bank official ... ( read original story ...)
Nepal economy to suffer $1.4 bln hit due to coronavirus- cbank official
Nepal's economy is expected to suffer a hit of over $1 billion due to coronavirus containment measures which have hurt business activity and tourism in the Himalayan nation, a central bank official ... ( read original story ...)
Russia and Saudi Arabia ‘basically the central banks of oil,’ analyst says
Karen Kostanian, head of EEMEA oil and gas research at Bank of America Global Research, discusses OPEC+ and the oil market. ( read original story ...)
Daughter of murdered Afghanistan activist Dr. Nakamura begins taking on his work
Following the December 2019 fatal shooting in Afghanistan of Japanese humanitarian Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, his eldest daughter Akiko has starte ... ( read original story ...)