How structural growth and stable funding anchor Indian and Indonesian financiers' resilience

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India’ s domestically-driven economy and Indonesia’ h commodity-led exports should provide some strength despite a more difficult operating environment characterised by higher global inflation, rising rates of interest and liquidity tightening. Elaine Koh, senior director for Asia-Pacific non-bank financial institutions from Fitch Ratings talks about the prospects meant for India and Indonesia’ s finance and leasing sector in the current economic environment.Continue Reading

Student threatened women on Facebook after finding their intimate images leaked online by purported hacker

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SINGAPORE: After coming across some links online to compromising images and footage of women purportedly obtained by a hacker, a tertiary student downloaded some of the content to his computer. After reviewing the content, he contacted two of the women online under a fake profile and threatened them in orderContinue Reading

Alarmed by suicide attack, China and Pakistan work together on probe

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KARACHI, Pakistan: It was the kind of attack Pakistani authorities had dreaded. A highly educated female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi in April along with their local driver, targeting nationals from Pakistan’s most important partner and seeking to undermine a relationship on which Islamabad’s financial survival largelyContinue Reading