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Dr. Hussain Sunny Umar is the founder of Maldives Halal Travel; MFR sat down with Dr. Umar for his unique insights.
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Sri Lanka has recently been in headlines for all the wrong reasons – the government's disastrous management of the economy and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, its untimely ban...
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China has plans to revise schedules for the repayment of loans given to Sri Lanka, in response to the request made by the Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his meeting...
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Since the 1980s, income and wealth inequalities have been on the rise across almost all countries, fuelled by an array of deregulation and liberalisation programmes. This has resulted in a...
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Citi on 13 January announced it had reached an agreement with UOB Group (UOB) on the acquisition of Citi’s consumer banking franchises in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The transaction...
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on 17 January issued guidelines on the agency's expectations that Digital Payment Token (DPT or more commonly known as cryptocurrency) service providers should not promote their...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier appointed Joachim Nagel as President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Steinmeier presented the certificate of appointment to Nagel at Schloss Bellevue on 7 January. The 55-year-old economist...
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Maya Angelou, poet and social activist, became the first black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter.
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The visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Sri Lanka from January 8 to 9, and the Indian Foreign Minister S.Jaishankar’s recent phone call to his Lankan counterpart...
