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Arabian Post Staff The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that it is reducing overall trading activity fees on all exchange transactions as part of its “ADX One” strategy to double the market capitalization of companies listed on the exchange in the next three years. The new pricing structure will...
Gudou Spring Superior Hotel opens amid fanfare and exudes charm of Jiangmen’s overseas Chinese culture
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – Gudou Holdings Limited (“Gudou Holdings” or “Company”, which together with its subsidiaries, is referred to as the “Group”, SEHK stock code: 8308), put its newly built Gudou Spring Superior Hotel (古兜泉峰江門記憶酒店) in Jiangmen into operation on 15 January 2021. Gudou Spring...
JBM (Healthcare) Limited Debuts on The Main Board of SEHK
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – JBM (Healthcare) Limited (“JBM Healthcare” or “Company“, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), a Hong Kong-based company that markets and distributes branded healthcare products across Greater China, Southeast Asia and certain other countries, started trading today on the...
Congress Needs Collective Leadership To Give A Big Push To Organisation
By Harihar Swarup Rahul Gandhi made public his decision to step down as Congress president taking moral responsibility for the Congress’s disastrous showing in the Lok Sabha elections in May 2019.. On August 11, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) appointed Sonia Gandhi as interim president despite Rahul suggesting...
Lower Duty Seen Providing Tailwinds To Gold Demand
By K Raveendran The pitfalls of an existing policy often remain under the surface until it is replaced by a new one that is more pragmatic. This cannot be truer than in the case of the government’s gold policy. The foreign exchange outgo on account of high...
Modi Govt Has Shifted Focus From Food Security To Agri-Business
By Amritananda Chakravorty It is the 72nd day of the protests led by hundreds of farmer groups at the different borders of Delhi, from Singhu to Ghazipur. The farmers are battling the might of the Indian State that has almost cut them off from the rest of...
Confident Bangladesh Is Negotiating With Countries On The Basis Of Strength
By Ashis Biswas In recent times, conducting Indian diplomacy in Bangladesh has steadily become a more ramified experience. Bangladesh’s response to live bilateral issues has undergone a subtle change in the context of its deepening ties with China. There has also occurred an easing of long term...
Rihanna Has Drawn Global Attention To Indian Farmers Protest
By Thomas Crowley The Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), does not take kindly to criticism, whether it comes from the citizens they are meant to serve, from the media, from opposition parties, or even from global celebrities. ...
Vaccines Are Another Sign Of Public Sector Success In Britain
By Solomon Hughes British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to get a big political bounce from the vaccination programme. But the success of vaccination, just like the failures of most of the Tory Covid-19 responses, shows that Johnson’s “free market” policies have let the virus run...
2021 Will Be A Make-Or-Break Year For Norway’s Left
By David Toms Norwegians will go to the polls in autumn 2021 to elect a government for another four-year term. Since 2013, Erna Solberg and her Conservative Party (Høyre) have led the country with support from a medley of coalition partners: first, the hard-right Progress Party from...
Narendra Modi Is Having The Taste Of His Global Digital Fame
By Sushil Kutty We’re in the golden age of content, and this content has nothing to do with content as in quite satisfied, or as in completely at ease, though with adequate amounts of the right content all media would sail through without a hitch. Are tweets content?...
Tripura CPI(M) Leader Manik Sarkar Has Exposed Real Colour Of BJP
By Arun Srivastava The Bengal CPI (M) has decided to use former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar’s revelation as campaigning tool to alert people about the situation in the north eastern state after the BJP came to power in 2018 and also to show the voters how the...
2021-22 Budget Proposals Help More The Corporates Than Common People
By C P Chandrasekhar In an attempt to persuade listeners into believing that Budget 2021will complete the conquest of disease and unleash an era of post-Covid expansion, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman placed special emphasis in her budget speech on two sets of initiatives. The first was a...
Farmers Are Making History In India’s Long Battle For Democratic Rights
By Dr Somu Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks, noted “…a state remains democratic only when it is able to draw voluntary consent to its policies through reasoned persuasion. When it fails to do so, it takes recourse to governing through an apparatus of coercions, including...
S P Balasubramanyam Was A Great Musical Legend Of India
By Harihar Swarup This year’s Padma Vibhushan winner, the second highest civilian Award of the land, S P Balasubrahmanyam was a musical legend. He developed an interest in music at an early age, studied musical notations, and learned music. He enrolled at the JNTU College of Engineering...
Cuba Develops Covid-19 Vaccines Based On Its Own Technology
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against Covid-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world developing vaccines. Socialist Cuba’s production of four vaccines is grounded in science, in a dedication to saving the lives of all Cubans, and in...
JD(U)-LJP Feud Creates Political Hurdles FOR BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the feud between Janata Dal (United) and LJP is getting deeper, it has become the latest headache for the BJP leadership. After he had to skip a crucial NDA meeting for which he had received an invitation, LJP leader Chirag Paswan has left no...
Microsoft unveils new Employee Experience Platform — Microsoft Viva — to help people thrive at work
Company reimagines fragmented $300 billion market to bring tools for employee communications, wellbeing, learning and knowledge discovery into the flow of work SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 February 2021 – Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing...
