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Indonesia suspends all exports of palm oil

JAKARTA, April 28, 2022 (AFP) - Indonesia began imposing a complete ban on palm oil exports Thursday, as the world's largest producer of the commodity risked destabilising a global vegetable oil market already hitting peak prices. The archipelago nation is facing a shortage of domestic supplies of cooking oil and

Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board

Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after disclosing that the Tesla CEO took a 9% stake

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
India’s exports rise to a record high of $418 billion…

India’s merchandise exports spurted to a record high of $418 billion in the financial year 2021-22 on account of higher

PM Deuba urges NRNs to invest skills and capital for…

kathmandu : Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged the Non-Resident Nepalis (NRNs) to put their capital, technical and managerial

Vladimir Putin and Modi
India buys 3 million barrels of Russian oil: report

India’s state-run oil company purchased 3 million barrels of Russian crude this week as numerous other nations bar such imports

Stock market
Stocks plunge, oil rockets, gold tops $2,000 on Ukraine fears

HONG KONG, March 7, 2022 (AFP) – Equity markets plunged Monday, while oil prices soared to a near 14-year high and

VISA and Mastercard
Visa, Mastercard suspend operations in Russia

NEW YORK (AFP) – Card payment giants Visa and Mastercard announced Saturday they will suspend operations in Russia, the latest

Is Bangladesh Going to be a Victim of Chinese Debt…

Hussain Shazzad Bangladesh, the second highest recipient of China’s investment in South Asia after Pakistan, imports the highest volume of

White House drops Trump orders trying to ban TikTok, WeChat

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and

Janet Yellen
What happens when the US increases its minimum wage?

NEW YORK (AFP/RSS) – Progressive lawmakers this week formally launched an effort to hike the US minimum wage, introducing legislation