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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – News Direct – 19 January 2023 – Property Partner, the UK’s leading fractional property investment platform, is rebranding as London House Exchange. The rebrand follows an additional £2.4m of investment from leading US digital homeownership company, Better. With the rebrand, London House Exchange (“LHX”) reprises its original legal name since its 2014 founding and returns the spotlight to being the world’s first and […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 January 2023 – Oasys, a gaming-optimized blockchain for gamers and developers to build on Web3, today announces the launch of its new decentralized governance framework, which will empower project stakeholders to play a leading role in determining the future of the Oasys blockchain and drive growth of the blockchain gaming ecosystem. The governance framework is an important first step for Oasys […]

By Nantoo Banerjee The best thing the Narendra Modi government’s last full budget before the next Lok Sabha election can do is to focus primarily on job creation and provide attractive incentives to large industrial investments to help push quality employment. The government has done reasonably well in the infrastructure investment sector, despite various constraints […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Should Focus On Jobs first appeared on IPA Newspack.

“ Ever since the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)’s documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots “India: The Modi Question” was released, it has landed itself in controversy with the Centre blocking the online links saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred. The documentary questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the riots. […]

The post BBC documentary: Opposition shares links despite blocks first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Schneider Electric earns recognition for advancing pay equity and fostering an inclusive and caring work environment HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 19 January 2023 – Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been named as a Global Parity Alliance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Lighthouse for its Global Pay Equity (GPE) initiative, by the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 January 2023 – Chubb today announced the appointment of Hng Keng Yoong as Country President for its general insurance operations in Singapore, subject to regulatory approval. Currently, she serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Chubb in Malaysia. In her new role, Keng will have overall responsibility for the business and financial performance of the operation across all lines of business, […]

By James M Dorsey Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s most moderate Muslim civil […]

The post Moderate Muslims Take To A Risky Strategy To Engage With Militant RSS first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has a greater responsibility of protecting India’s workforce at a time when they are at high risk of being forced into accepting lower quality jobs, as warned by ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) Trend 2023, large scale job cuts is adding into the woes of the […]

The post Union Budget 2023-24 Must Provide Relief To Workforce first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka on January 19-20. It follows a letter by India to the IMF that it supports Sri Lanka’s efforts to restructure bilateral debt. The multilateral financial institution has offered a $2.9 billion bailout to Sri Lanka but the actual […]

The post Indian Foreign Minister Sticks To Economic Agenda On His Sri Lanka Visit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The current situation in Karnataka politics is a minefield that makes it equally complicated for both the rivals to achieve a majority on their own in the Legislative Assembly, come May 2023. For starters, the electorate has exhibited a willingness to experiment with alternatives whenever they arise. For instance, from a Congress bastion in the […]

The post Karnataka remains a minefield of uncertainties for BJP, Cong first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 21 January 2023 – On 17 January 2023, GenScript ProBio announced its Series C round of financing of nearly USD220 million, led by Legend Capital, which marks the largest scale in the CDMO sector in China since the second half of 2022. Several active healthcare investment institutions also participated in this round. The parent company, Genscript Biotech Corporation, also invested […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 January 2023 – Maven Lab, an Omni Channel Communication Company provider based in Singapore, has been listed as a Participating Aggregator (PA) under IMDA’s Full SMS Sender ID Registry Regime, also known as the Full SSIR Regime. Through this, Maven Lab’s SMS solution – Moobicast, is equipped to protect mobile users from receiving spoofed messages. The Full SSIR Regime is an […]

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 19 January 2023 – As the Spring Festival of the Chinese Rabbit Year approaches, Clash of Clans(COC), the game developed by famous Finnish mobile game developer Supercell, launches lots of Spring Festival-limited content and benefits for players. Taking the Asian market as the pivot as always, the game brings plenty of game content with the element of the Zodiac “Rabbit” […]

By Harihar Swarup The Bharat Jodo Yatra will culminate on January 30 in Srinagar with a flag hoisting ceremony at Srinagar on the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. By then, the yatra which began on September 7, 2022 would have traversed the length of the sub-continent from Kanyakumari to Himalayas. The yatra has […]

The post Yatra Has Catapulted Rahul Gandhi To National Stage But What About The Congress Party? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 January 2023 – Following the re-opening of the borders between Hong Kong and Mainland China, the frequent interaction between Shenzhen and Hong Kong will resume and deepen in the future. For over a year since the issuance of the Plan for Comprehensive Deepening Reform and Opening Up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (the “Qianhai […]

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach – 20 January 2023 – On January 20, 2023, Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. (“Fosun Pharma” or “Group”; Stock Code: 600196.SH, 02196.HK) announced that COMIRNATY® Original/Omicron BA.4/BA.5 bivalent COVID-19 vaccine (also known as COMIRNATY® Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine) is officially approved as a regular imported vaccine by the Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau of Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China […]

By Sushil Kutty Don’t India’s opposition parties have feelings for the electorate? Watching them behave the way they do does not betray any people-friendly vibes. It would not be wrong to label them cynics. In fact, they should be “gently poked in the arm and told to stop being such misanthropes.” That is one view. […]

The post Opposition Parties Giving Conflicting Signals On Uniting Against BJP In 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept is given great currency by the […]

The post Capitalists Are Terming Social Welfare Schemes ‘Populist’ To Deny Benefits To Poor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Prabir Purkayastha The recent announcement of the Narendra Modi government of a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 19,794 crore) National Green Hydrogen Mission has created two kinds of questions. The most common reaction is what is green hydrogen? And do we have a plan for a green hydrogen path for which Rs 20,000 crore is […]

The post Massive Green Energy Plan For Indian Capital But Not For Its People first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Fewer than half of Hong Kong millennials are satisfied with overall health and wellbeing HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 January 2023 – Millennials in Asia care about health and wellness and they are willing to spend on what they care. According to a survey by Bupa, over six in ten Hong Kong millennials consider themselves health conscious, but fewer than half (48%) are satisfied […]

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 January 2023 – Hi Sun FinTech Global (HSG) supports ACU Group to offer fast, transparent and cost-effective international payments in multiple currencies. Mr. Thor Yang, Chairman of ACU Group Hong Kong (left) and Mr. Terry Liang, CEO of HSG (right) signed Certificate of Partnership in recognition of commitments and collaboration. Thailand is one of 60 countries where ACU Group […]

By Binoy Viswam Stating that there are nearly 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi masked himself by exhorting the BJP cadres to keep aside electoral aims and work for all sections of people. He was addressing the recently concluded national executive meeting of the BJP. It is one example of […]

The post Two-Day BJP National Executive Discussed Only Elections, No Urgent Economic Issues first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took an indirect dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while voicing displeasure over the Centre’s “refusal” to grant special category status to the state. In a free-wheeling conversation with journalists at Buxar district, which he toured as part of his state-wide mass outreach programme ‘Samadhan Yatra’, Kumar referred […]

The post Nitish’s dig at PM over Bihar not getting special status first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 19 January 2023 – Since opening our first store in 2011, Hyakunousha has grown into a business of over 110 stores all around Hong Kong, promoting Omusubi culture throughout the city. To bring the essence of the tradition of Omusubi to customers worldwide, we established our new brand OMUSUBI in 2022, and invited Mr. Kashiwa Sato, a design master in […]

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