Building a public-private partnership (PPP) model will benefit cybersecurity governance in the financial sector, according to a senior banking executive, who noted that cybercrime incidents in the GCC have doubled in 2015.
Banging drums, clanging bells and performing impromptu street dances, members of Nepal’s ethnic Newar community rang in the New Year yesterday in colourful style in one of the highpoints of their Diwali celebrations.
Largest Turkish lender cuts rates second time in three months; president warned banking industry to curb costs in August
Hillary Clinton battled to contain renewed FBI focus on her emails Sunday as Donald Trump blitzed western states in the tightening race for the White House.
Matsuyama, who won the Japan Open earlier this month, began the day with a three-shot cushion and carded a six-under-par 66 in the final round to finish on 23-under
South African police yesterday fired stun grenades to disperse student protesters outside parliament as the finance minister delivered a speech warning of the country’s weakening economy.
Jihadists with the Islamic State group were shaving their beards and changing hideouts in Mosul, residents said, as a major Iraqi offensive moved ever closer to the city on Wednesday.
Three Vietnamese fishermen held hostage for nearly five years by Somali pirates returned home yesterday to weeping relatives, saying they were “overwhelmed” with joy after their harrowing kidnapping.
‘When we first hosted the F1 it was a big deal. First in Asia outside Japan. Now so many venues. No first mover advantage. Not a novelty’
State-owned Chinese chemicals group ChemChina is ready to offer more concessions to win European Union antitrust approval for its $43bn bid for Swiss pesticide and seed group Syngenta, a source with direct knowledge of the process said.
Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain, who was in Doha on an official visit, conveyed his condolences on the death of HH the Grandfather Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani to HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday.
The relationship between politics and economics is changing. Advanced-country politicians are locked in bizarre, often toxic, conflicts, instead of acting on a growing economic consensus about how to escape a protracted period of low and unequal growth.
