Issued on: 14/04/2021 – 08:34Modified: 14/04/2021 – 08:32 Advertising Read more Tokyo (AFP) The Japanese owner of a megaship seized after blocking the Suez Canal has said it is negotiating with Egyptian authorities after they demanded $ 900 million in compensation for its release. The 200,000-tonne MV Ever Given got diagonally stuck in the narrow […]
Before March 2020, everything was moving at a faster pace. It was as if everyone across the world was brimming with ideas related to technological advances, market disruptions, and actionable marketing tactics. But then the wave of the coronavirus hit us hard. The world economy hit its lowest point. Everyone was asked to stay inside […]
Issued on: 14/04/2021 – 04:08Modified: 14/04/2021 – 04:06 Advertising Read more Wellington (AFP) New Zealand will force banks to reveal the impact their investments have on climate change under world-first legislation intended to make the financial sector’s environmental record transparent, officials said. Commerce Minister David Clark said the law would make climate reporting mandatory for […]
Advertisement Last week, the European Union announced that Uzbekistan had been accepted as the ninth beneficiary of the Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance, GSP+, intended to support “vulnerable developing countries” that have ratified a bevy of international conventions on human rights. The core benefit of GSP+ is the full removal of […]
The pandemic has worsened already dire conditions for prisoners since the UK Prison Service locked down the prison estate last year. Following drastic changes to the regime, most imprisoned people have since spent between 22 and 23 hours in their cells every day. Since then, there have been wide reports of severe isolation, despair, frustration […]
Issued on: 13/04/2021 – 23:13 Paris Saint-Germain knocked holders Bayern Munich out of the Champions League on Tuesday despite Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scoring against his old club as a 1-0 defeat in the second leg at the Parc des Princes could not prevent the French giants from winning a tremendous quarter-final tie on away goals. […]
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kenzhebek Abishev, who was jailed for being linked to a political movement founded by a fugitive tycoon, has launched a hunger strike after his early release on parole was cancelled at the last moment. Kazakhstan’s International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law said on April 12 that Abishev started the […]
Colombia’s prosecution misinformed the court in an apparent attempt to counter claims that former President Alvaro Uribe founded a paramilitary group in the 1990’s. In a report on the “Bloque Metro,” the prosecution’s Strategic Center for the Validation of Evidence claimed that the paramilitary group “made its first appearance in July 1998, handing out flyers.” […]
Before a startup can achieve product-market fit, founders must first listen to their customers, build what they require and fashion a business plan that makes the whole enterprise worthwhile. The numbers will tell the true story, but when it happens, you’ll feel it in your bones because sales will be good, customers will happy and […]
Risk and compliance startup LogicGate has confirmed a data breach. But unless you’re a customer, you probably didn’t hear about it. An email sent by LogicGate to customers earlier this month said on February 23 an unauthorized third-party obtained credentials to its Amazon Web Services-hosted cloud storage servers storing customer backup files for its flagship […]