Digging deeper on Iran’s new underground air base

By:
On:
In: Asia

Iran has unveiled its Oghab-44 underground air base, a facility known as “Eagle 44” intended to shelter Iran’s limited combat aircraft fleet for maritime precision strikes in the Persian Gulf.  This month, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and Iran’s Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi presided over […]Continue Reading

Malaysia healthcare capacity stretched with long waiting times, manpower shortage: Reports

By:
On:
In: Asia

Most recently, a psychiatric patient became agitated and stabbed an elderly man at Selayang Hospital in Selangor on Tuesday, after being left at the hospital’s accident and emergency department while waiting for a bed to become available. Earlier in February, Malaysia’s Health Minister Zaliha Mustafa said that emergency departments (ED)Continue Reading

Ukraine fighting Russia’s de facto block on private investment

By:
On:
In: Asia

President Volodymyr Zelensky is finally seeing results from his efforts to generate private-sector investment in Ukraine as multilateral organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) begin to provide comprehensive war insurance to corporate investors. Ukrainian […]Continue Reading

Singaporean economist Li Shengwu among 125 ‘outstanding’ researchers in US, Canada selected for prestigious Sloan fellowship

By:
On:
In: South-East Asia

SINGAPORE: Singaporean economist Li Shengwu has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2023.  Mr Li, the eldest son of Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Ms Lee Suet Fern and grandson of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, was one of the 125 “outstanding” early-career researchers selected by AmericanContinue Reading