PETALING JAYA: After months of business disruptions and operating at reduced capacity, businesses in Malaysia are finding it harder to stay afloat if Covid-19 restrictions are prolonged. Industry groups are appealing to the government to allow all businesses, regardless of the states they are based in, to operate at full or increased capacity if a high percentage of their workforce have been fully vaccinated. The industry players are also asking for further government stimulus and non-monetary a

It, nevertheless, holds great relevance for South Asia, where rivers are facing the combined adverse consequences of urbanisation, big dams arresting the flow, and snow in the lofty mountain ranges losing cover with global warming.... India and Pakistan are both facing the growing twin challenge of flood and drought.... Iran’s less-discussed challenge lies in a crippling water crisis at home....

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This will certainly bode well for businesses and investors, as there will be more capital expenditure expansion and new business and investment activities taking place.“ The real challenge emerges when households have high debt with job uncertainty, rising underlying inflation and borrowing costs.... More so those who rely on domestic spending more than exports, ” he noted. Malaysia’s household debt-to-GDP ratio is among the highest in the region.... The government should not interfere with pr

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Hindu nationalists killed him for that, for not letting go of his fabled humanism even amid the fratricidal madness that came in the wake of 1947.... It’s not an easy question to answer, made more difficult with the rise of religious polarisation stalking both countries as it does much of the world.... Lest we forget, the worrying reality of Afghanistan today would probably not be there without the advent of Gen Zia in Pakistan....

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