The United States issued an advisory Wednesday warning of the increased risk of conducting business in Myanmar nearly a year after a military coup in the Southeast Asian country, which is also known as Burma.The…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES— The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today launched a publication calling for scaling up of finance flows into ocean health improvement and related projects in Asia and the Pacific to combat growing threats from…
The World Trade Organization on Wednesday handed a fresh victory to China, permitting it to place duties on $645 million worth of U.S. imports per year, in a long-running anti-dumping dispute with Washington.The United States…
Countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states have long faced challenges from weak governance and underdeveloped institutions to geographical remoteness, making development progress difficult. The onset of the pandemic has seen…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES— The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a project to make cross-border securities transactions in Asia and the Pacific more efficient and secure through the use of blockchain technology. Working with leading blockchain…
DAKAR (Senegal)/BEIJING— China will explore new approaches in a bid to expand imports from Africa, the Director-General of the Department of African Affairs in the country’s Ministry Foreign Affairs Wu Peng said. Wu says…
On 20 January 2022, Ang Mo Kio Police Division presented the Community Partnership Award (Organisation) to DHL Express (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The award was given in recognition for their contributions and strong partnership with the…
BUENOS AIRES— Argentina’s bottled wine exports hit a historic high in 2021 worth $817 million, the foreign ministry reported Saturday. The previous high was the $786 million in foreign wine sales marked in 2012.…
