New Delhi (Sputnik): The currency swap facility is part of the $1.4 billion economic package announced by India for the Maldives in December 2018 after Abdulla Yameen's defeat in the elections. India ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: India Extends $150 Million Foreign Currency Swap Support to Maldives
The swap facility was extended under $400 million currency swap arrangement signed between India and the Maldives last July. ( read original story ...)
Speedy Gonzalez arrested in Georgia for alleged mail fraud
After months on the run, a mail fraud suspect who lived up to his legal name — Speedy Gonzalez — has been arrested in Georgia. ( read original story ...)
Oman’s crude oil production rises to 91mln barrels
Oman recorded a daily average crude oil production of 998.3 barrels at the end of March 2020, against 970.5 barrels over the same period of 2019, the NCSI report added. However, the average price of ... ( read original story ...)
‘Invisible and possibly forgotten’: Singapore’s second wave of coronavirus cases prompts soul searching on the conditions of foreign workers
Low-paid South Asian laborers in the city-state have been the worst affected by COVID-19 and have the most trouble accessing health care. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus pandemic will likely end the strong profit growth in Singapore banks
Singapore's three largest banks are scheduled to release first-quarter earnings in the coming days, starting with DBS on Thursday. ( read original story ...)
Packed With Migrant Workers, Dormitories Fuel Coronavirus in Singapore
Cases of the virus in dormitories, which can house up to 20 people per room, accounted for 88 percent of the nation’s cases, as of Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s ‘hooligan cook’ offers free meals for needy during virus lockdown
The tattoo-covered, former boxer has been serving up dozens of free meals for those in need since early April, when the city-state imposed a lockdown aimed at curbing virus cases now among the highest ... ( read original story ...)
Kyrgyzstan extends state of emergency until May 10
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has extended until May 10 the state of emergency imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, his office said on Tuesday, following similar moves by its Central Asian ... ( read original story ...)
Kyrgyzstan’s sewing industry reorients to survive coronavirus slump
Kyrgyzstan’s cottage textile industry was among the first areas of the economy to feel the pain when the coronavirus epidemic erupted in earnest in China at the turn of the year ... ( read original story ...)