To reassure investors that their new wealth fund will not fall victim to corruption, Indonesia will need to come out of the shadows of neighboring Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal. In view of this, Isa Rachmatarwata, Director General of State Assets of the Finance Ministry shared that the Nusantara Investment Authority will take lessons from other sovereign wealth funds and follow a …

Defenders made a way as the members of the University of the Philippines College of Law faculty defended their former dean, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen of the Supreme Court, against an exclusion offer they considered uncorroborated. In order to throw the impeachment lawsuit and prioritizing more meaningful work for legislators the law professors advised the members of the House of …

Amidst everything that’s happening, President Rodrigo Duterte certified two bills seeking to extend the validity of the 2020 national budget and the so-called “Bayanihan 2” legislation as urgent steps to ensure that the government has enough fiscal leeway to finance next year’s expensive pandemic response. Duterte gave presidential certification to House Bill 6656 in a letter to House Speaker Lord …

SINGAPORE – Under a cooperation program rolled out earlier this month, educators from Singapore share their pedagogical expertise with their counterparts in Kazakhstan. The relationship between the Temasek Foundation, Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) International, and the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan (MOES) focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Stem). The three-part capacity and development program conducted by NYP …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Top Glove of Malaysia announced that a worker died on Saturday as a result of COVID-19, the first death since the October outbreak in its dormitories and factories. In an email, the manufacturer told Reuters that the 29-year-old worker from Nepal had been employed for more than two years at its manufacturing facility in Klang, 40 km …

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14- Before the report is made public, the government has set up a special committee to review the 49 recommendations submitted by the Electoral Reform Committee (ERC). Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan, Minister in the Department of Prime Minister, said the special committee comprising members of the Cabinet is headed by Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali and will …

Despite the current issue facing, “Allahu Akbar” was heard through many supporters of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) chief Habib Rizieq Shihab while witnessing at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Detention Center. Few of the supporters who gathered at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters with a pack of journalists not only supported screamed “Takbir” which means Allah is the greatest but also …

For more than a year now, a police colonel was kicked out from work and cited by police of assisting former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to escape Thailand shortly before facing a court ruling in the rice-pledging scandal in 2017 has been secretly reinstated for more than a year now. Pol Col Chairit Anurit, is the previous deputy commissioner of …

SINGAPORE: Singapore plans to conclude a free trade agreement with Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru’s Pacific Alliance next year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s press secretary announced on Friday (Dec 11). After three years of negotiations, Ms Chang Li Lin said a “substantial conclusion was reached in the agreement. A fruitful late night mtg with the leaders of Chile, Colombia, …

Vico Sotto, Pasig‘s very own mayor, has been the preferred mayor of social media since he was elected. Not only is he good-looking and smart, but Pasiguenos is a great leader, too. His several initiatives continue to stir praise from his people and his honesty won him the confidence of the public. And the influx of investors in Pasig comes …