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Second Azerbaijani "Aframax" tanker commissioned

Second Azerbaijani "Aframax" tanker commissioned

Another tanker of the "Aframax" type, acquired by the SA Maritime AFEZCO joint venture, established on a parity basis with the consent of the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) CJSC and the Supervisory Board of the State Oil …

Kazakhstan plans to launch direct flights to Singapore

Kazakhstan plans to launch direct flights to Singapore

Kazakhstan is interested in launching direct flights to Singapore, according to the Civil Aviation Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh side offered Singapore Airlines to use …

Southeast Asia losing patience with King Dollar’s clout

Southeast Asia losing patience with King Dollar’s clout

The weaponization of the world’s reserve currency, as through sanctions on those deemed bad actors, such as Russia, has pushed even the typically diplomatic Southeast Asians to warn the US of the consequences,  …

US crypto giant solidifies in Singapore

US crypto giant solidifies in Singapore

Individuals and institutions can use digital payment token services and the firms are regulated by the central bank under its Payment Services Act

Tanker refloated after running aground in Suez Canal

Tanker refloated after running aground in Suez Canal

Tug boats refloated an oil tanker that was briefly stranded in Egypt's Suez Canal late on Wednesday due to a technical fault with its rudder, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said. The vessel, Affinity V, had been blocking the …

Singapore's mega-port takes aim at shipping chaos

Singapore's mega-port takes aim at shipping chaos

As the world's economies struggle to untangle unprecedented congestion in global supply chains, one of the world's busiest ports is backing an ambitious modernisation plan to provide solutions

Singapore to open embassy in Israel

Singapore to open embassy in Israel

Singapore will open an embassy in Tel Aviv, its foreign minister announced, more than a half century after the two countries established diplomatic ties. Singapore’s Vivian Balakrishnan notified Foreign Minister Yair Lapid of the …

IMF: Global growth is not expected

IMF: Global growth is not expected

Persistent supply chain disruptions and inflation pressures are constraining the global economy's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday as it cut growth outlooks for the United States and other major industrial powers

Russia ousts China and USA from South-East Asia

Russia ousts China and USA from South-East Asia

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s much-publicized tagline for the homegrown Sputnik vaccines — “reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle” — seems to bear a special connotation for Southeast Asia, …

Singapore is almost ready to live with COVID-19

Singapore is almost ready to live with COVID-19

Singapore is on the verge of becoming Asia's first major country to fully vaccinate the majority of its population against COVID-19, stepping closer -- at least in theory -- to exiting the pandemic

Russia resumes flights to Greece and Singapore from February 8

Russia resumes flights to Greece and Singapore from February 8

Moscow resumes flights to Greece and Singapore from February 8, the Russian anti-coronavirus crisis center reports. Flights from Moscow to Athens will be operated twice a week, while flights to Singapore - three times a week, it said. …

Asia deploys innovative, if invasive, tech to curb virus

Asia deploys innovative, if invasive, tech to curb virus

Electronic bracelets and phones that report your whereabouts, text messages if you stray too far from quarantine and digital detectives tracking where you have been — Asian countries have embraced innovative, if somewhat invasive, tech …