Buy or build stack components? That’s an issue martech practitioners confront all the time. Like it or not, no one will ever get everything they want or need. An important question is whether the cost (effort and budget) is worth building something and then maintaining a custom solution to get closer to meeting all of…
India has agreed to extend hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support to the Maldives to help strengthen its struggling economy. The deal was announced after Maldives President Mohammed Muizzu held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his five-day visit to India. The support includes a $400m currency swap deal and an additional…
PETALING JAYA: A focus on better workforce standards to sustain growth is crucial in achieving the target of training and upskilling 60,000 engineers based on the National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS), said Kampung Tunku Assemblyman Lim Yi Wei. She said that stakeholders need to prioritise improved salaries, work-life balance, social protections and inclusivity. “Stakeholders and industries…
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said it was “a day of deep reflection and pain”, as he commemorated the victims of Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel. Lammy described the attack last year, which killed about 1,200 people, as “the worst attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust”. Speaking at South Tottenham Synagogue, he…
British sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is not up for negotiation, the prime minister’s spokesman has said. Questions over the government’s commitment to maintaining the British overseas territories as part of the UK have been raised after the government announced on Thursday it was handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius. Sir Keir…
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“Oh my God, the key to my grandfather’s home!” exclaims 10-year-old Najwa, her voice brightening with excitement as she clutches the key in her small hand. Standing atop a heap of rubble where her grandparents’ home once stood, she adds “Now, it’s all destroyed.” Six months after Close Up first met Najwa in Rafah, the…
PETALING JAYA: Nihon M&A Center Holdings has established Asean to Global Capital (AtoG Capital), a subsidiary fund management company aimed at supporting Japanese companies’ expansion into the Asean region. Through the fund, it aims to facilitate cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, and the first partnership kicked off in Malaysia with CK MAC Global Sdn…
Moscow — A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion to nearly seven years in prison. Judge Alexandra Kovalevskaya at Moscow City Court sentenced the defendant, named as Stephen Hubbard by the media, to six years and 10 months in prison. The…
David Lammy has said the government is “young” after Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray resigned and a new poll found most people think the government is “sleazy”. The foreign secretary said Ms Gray was a “superb public servant” after she quit on Sunday following weeks of briefings against her, including her salary…
