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Wins Malaysia Best Impact Investing Manager, Malaysia Best Equity Manager, Malaysia CEO of the Year, Malaysia Best House for Alternatives & Malaysia Most Improved Fund House KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 21 February 2023 – Kenanga Investors Berhad (“Kenanga Investors”) has received five awards at the 2023 Best of the Best Awards by Hong Kong-based Asia Asset Management (“Awards”). The company was recognized for its […]

By Sushil Kutty If putting an end to Narendra Modi’s rule for the “democratic revival” of India is the Opposition’s goal for 2024, then billionaire George Soros should be kept at a couple of oceans’ length. Soros might come with a certain reputation, but laying India on the mat is a different ballgame, Narendra Modi […]

The post Soros Gambit Is A Non-Starter In The Game To Checkmate Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Passive in health protection planning, nearly 40% of respondents in Hong Kong might give up the best medical options HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 20 February 2023 – A recent survey on “Healthcare Protection in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)” (note 1) conducted by FWD Hong Kong (“FWD”) has found that Hong Kongers anticipate a huge increase in medical expenditure in the future which would […]

Bartra Wealth Advisors, the leading IIP fundraiser in Asia, recorded almost 230 IIP applications and repaid nearly €100 million to IIP investors in 2022 HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 16 February 2023 – On Tuesday 14 February, the Irish government announced the closure of the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), which was first introduced in 2012. The Programme has approved investment totaling more than €1 billion, […]

Launching travel offers and discounts on all-round travel essentials HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 16 February 2023 – Club Travel, an affiliate of HKT that provides comprehensive travel products and services, announced a partnership with digital travel platform Agoda to upgrade its existing online travel platform, enriching its travel product options. The new Club Travel Flight and Accommodation Booking Platform (Club Travel Booking Platform) 1 […]

By K Raveendran Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget has played truant with the gold trade, which is in the throes of a crisis for what the finance minister has not done rather than any act of commission in her last full-fledged budget of her current tenure. The gold trade had been looking for a cut in the […]

The post Budget Shock Tricks Gold Trade, Imports Plunge To 32-Month Low first appeared on IPA Newspack.

RIYADH: During his visit to the UK Embassy in Riyadh on Wednesday, British Minister for the Middle East Lord Tariq Ahmed stated that the only way to mitigate security risks within the region and in
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Security software and cloud platforms clock fast growth in Asia-Pacific as hybrid work becomes mainstream SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 February 2023 – Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA), one of the leading independent Identity providers, today announced the findings of its ninth annual Businesses at Work report, which reveals that business users have been turning to a wide range of apps as post-pandemic travel and workstyles evolved […]

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 16 February 2023 – Back to Blue, an initiative of Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation, emphasises that time is swiftly running out to avoid the worst impacts of ocean acidification. At an event entitled “Ocean Acidification: A Crisis in the making“, hosted by Back to Blue in Tokyo, Japan, on February 2rd, chairman of The Nippon Foundation Yohei Sasakawa, and […]

DUBAI: After more than a decade of war, and a succession of devastating earthquakes just hours apart which killed thousands, Syrians are now facing yet another life-threatening crisis — this time an

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India have been listening PM Narendra Modi and his supporters claiming the “great work done” for the workforce in the country, especially during the pandemic. However, the revelation made by Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in the Lok Sabha on February 13 is quite shocking. A total of 1.12 lakh daily […]

The post Daily Wage Workers’ Suicides During Pandemic Is Shocking first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey This could be India’s decade if it plays its cards right. The sub-continental state is poised to be the next China, even if its path will likely be less straightforward than that of China and more of a Leninist two steps forward, one step backwards. Leaving aside the multiple domestic issues […]

The post India Could Be This Decade’s China If New Delhi Plays Its Cards Well first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world back on track for 2030 SDG […]

The post G20 Presidency For India Caught Between Pride And Humiliation first appeared on IPA Newspack.

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 February 2023 – Victory Securities held the “HONG KONG’S FIRST VIRTUAL ASSET RESEARCH CONFERENCE”, detailing an overview of the cryptocurrency market and analyzing the impact of external factors on the cryptocurrency market. At the press conference, a panel of experts in the virtual asset industry discussed how to revolutionize the virtual asset industry. Adam Zhou, Managing Director of Victory […]

Hong Kong S.A.R – Media OutReach – 14 February 2023 – The year 2023 starts with good news on the macroeconomic front. First, Europe has avoided a recession that looked long promised. Efficiency gains and the slowdown in activity have led to a sharp drop in energy prices and thus a welcome slowdown in inflation. Finally, the prospect of a rebound in China in the second half […]

SIBUR has secured international verification of a climate project completed at ZapSibNeftekhim, Russia’s largest petrochemical facility. MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Media OutReach – 14 February 2023 – Verico SCE, Europe’s leading validation and verification body, has confirmed that SIBUR’s climate project meets ISO 14064-2:2019. This helped SIBUR earn certified emission reductions (CERs) totalling some 3 million tonnes of CO2-eq. by 2022. Under the climate project, by-products of ZapSibNeftekhim […]

By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve the regulatory and statutory mechanisms to […]

The post Debt-Heavy Adani Group May Take Time To Overcome That Sinking Feeling first appeared on IPA Newspack.

NetApp’s new portfolio of programs and guarantees makes it easier to manage storage investment and avoid sporadic capital expenditures SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 8 February 2023 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced the availability of NetApp Advance, a new portfolio of storage programs and guarantees to help customers cost-effectively future proof on-premises environments. NetApp Advance evolves the storage lifecycle, allowing […]

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market remains volatile. The month of January 2023 witnessed a large number of unemployed moving out from the labour market after they got frustrated after months of searching jobs. This act of the unemployed excluded their count as unemployed resulting in fall in unemployment rate from 8.3 per cent […]

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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 9 February 2023 – Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, has named Stephen Rudman as head of Marine for Asia, effective January. Based in Singapore, Rudman will be part of Aon’s global marine executive team and report to Paul Young, head of Commercial Risk Solutions for Asia at Aon. He joins Aon from Gallagher, where he worked for […]

By Prabhat Patnaik Gautam Adani’s calling Hindenburg’s allegations of fraud against him an attack on the Indian nation is a matter of particular significance. Just before this episode, the BBC documentary on Modi had been labelled a product of the colonial mindset by the government and hence also construed to be an attack on the […]

The post Narendra Modi-Adani Combination Is The Symbol Of Corporate-Hindutva Alliance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The human body is 80 percent water. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s is 80 percent hubris, the remaining 20 percent hot air for ballast, also called ‘bombast’! Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and qualities to inspire are garnished with enough narcissism to sink INS Vikrant! And his breadth of vision matched only by […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Suffering From ‘I, Me, Myself’ Syndrome first appeared on IPA Newspack.

When it comes to health, prevention is better than cure HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 10 February 2023 – Living a modern busy lifestyle, the majority of Hong Kongers lack healthy dietary and exercise habits that may pose severe health risks. Not to mention most chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases rarely show symptoms at the early stages, which can be a crucial […]

By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. It does not need rocket science, […]

The post Can BJP Afford To Depend On Hindutva Campaign For Assembly Elections? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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