Malaysia threatens EU fighter jet boycott over palm oil
Malaysia may retaliate against an EU plan to curb palm oil use by purchasing new fighter jets from China instead of European arms companies, its leader said yesterday. The Southeast Asian country is the world’s second largest pal
Jakarta opens mass rapid transit system
Indonesia’s capital inaugurated its first mass rapid transit system on Sunday, a $1.1 billion project seen as crucial to tackling some of the world’s worst traffic congestion. President Joko Widodo and other officials joine
MAX anti-stall software fix ready
A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready, industry sources said Saturday, as the company tries to avoid a lengthy grounding of its planes. Boeing was d
Sri Lanka opens work on $3.85bn refinery
Sri Lanka began construction yesterday of a nearly $4 billion oil refinery it hopes will revive foreign interest in its shipping facilities after Beijing’s takeover of a nearby port spooked international investors. Prime Minister
Bahrain participates in GCC eGovt meeting in Oman
Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) Chief Executive Mohammed Ali AlQaed headed the 20th GCC eGovernment Executive Committee Meeting – hosted during 24th and 25th of March by Oman. The highly esteemed meeting was attende
CBB announces guidelines for short selling, security lending
Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) yesterday announced a resolution introducing short selling of securities as well as giving securities on loan into the capital markets ecosystem of Kingdom. The resolution No. (23) issued by the top bank s
Will Mexico save its vanishing vaquita?
In recent decades, the sleek, wide-eyed vaquita porpoise has been pushed to the brink of extinction by poachers pursuing another critically endangered sea creature, the totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder sells on the Chinese black mark
Who will speak out for the forgotten women of conflict?
International Women’s Day rightly celebrates the impressive achievements of courageous women. Yet the world has had less to say about our most vulnerable sisters, as historically elevated levels of displacement due to conflict ha
