The updated five-year transformation roadmap also hopes to grow the professional services industry by 3 to 4 per cent each year up till 2025.Continue Reading
NAKHON PHANOM: A navy river patrol on Monday seized 580 kilogrammes of dried cannabis believed smuggled across the Mekong river from Laos and found in a pickup truck abandoned by the fleeing driver in Ban Phaeng district.Continue Reading
US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has made her recommendations for the revitalization of America’s semiconductor industry, a plan that is pivotal to retaining US economic leadership but one that also raises hard questions about government interference in the private sector and potential damage caused to US allies in Europe and East Asia. In a […]Continue Reading
A Reuters investigation found that several pairs of shoes meant for recycling were instead exported to Indonesia for sale.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has unveiled the largest budget in his nation’s history replete with measures aimed at lowering the cost of living through subsidies and direct cash payments, even as his three-month-old administration claims to be trying to narrow the fiscal deficit. The record 388.1 billion ringgit (US$87.5 billion) spending plan […]Continue Reading
Agrees reintroduction of GST not ideal now but urges govt to consider it for 2024
Disappointed National TVET Apprenticeship & National Automation Fund idea not adpted The revised Budget 2023, unveiled recently by Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim with the theme âMembangun Malaysia Madaniâ, is the Unity Governmentâs first budget which outlines its policies and priorities.Â
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There is a paradox with economic sanctions. They tend to command widespread support within the sanctioning country yet frequently fail to change the behavior of the targeted country. Despite 20 years of sanctions, North Korea can now make a nuclear strike anywhere within the United States. It also supplied infantry rockets and missiles to the […]Continue Reading
Italian commercial drone market to grow to US$595mil in 2026
Expands Europe presence, after Germany, Austria, Switzerland Aerodyne Group, the worldâs leading drone solutions provider, announced its twenty-first global M&A today, entering the Italian market directly through a strategic investment in Aiviewgroup, the top drone service provider in Italy.
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Besides the G7 nations, the G20 bloc also includes such countries as Australia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. The delegates said the meeting was likely to end with a statement by the host summarising the discussions. “In the absence of a consensus, the option for India would be to issue aContinue Reading
Besides the G7 nations, the G20 bloc also includes such countries as Australia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. A senior G20 source said negotiations over the communique were difficult, with Russia and China blocking proposals by Western countries. The source and several other officials said barring a last-minute surprise, a consensusContinue Reading