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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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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...
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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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Maldives-Bangladesh ties were taken to new heights recently in late 2021, when the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, made an official state visit to the Maldives from 22 to...
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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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Apple was briefly valued at USD3 trillion on Monday, 3 January 2022, just over a year after the company first surpassed USD2 trillion in value and three years since it...
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The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is on a swing through the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) from January 4 to 9. Wang’s trip spans the IOR from the East African...
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China is assiduously cultivating North Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen in an effort to fill a gap created by India’s inaction in regard to the suffering these fishermen undergo as a...
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Diplomacy has been and always will be the most effective tool at the disposal of a small developing island nation like the Maldives, and the craft has had time to...
