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SINGAPORE: Digital wealth platform Endowus Pte has secured investments from UBS Group AG, Samsung Ventures and Singtel Innov8 to fuel expansion in Singapore and Hong Kong. Zurich-based UBS is putting an unspecified amount of its own money into Endowus through UBS Next, a US$ 200mil( RM831mil) fund that takes direct stakes in early-stage fintech firms, the Singapore-based company said in a statement yesterday. The additional capital brings the total size of the firm’s Series A funding round to US

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As a result of her incarceration, Park was stripped of all benefits that former presidents are entitled to, except for security protection.... After taking control of the military, Chun conducted a bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protests across the country and eventually had himself elevated to the presidency in 1980. South Korea at the time did not have direct elections in which each citizen casts a vote.... Roh was able to win the election because the two other candidates, Kim Dae-ju

SEOUL: South Korea’s central bank raised its benchmark rate to the highest since August 2019 yesterday in a surprise move as it ramped up the fight against rampant inflation, which threatens its economic recovery.In its first ever rate review held without a governor, the bank’s monetary policy board voted to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.50%, an outcome less than half of economists foresaw in a Reuters poll. Most analysts had expected the Bank of Korea( BoK) to kee

The District’s teacher evaluation system is not pushing effective teachers out of the classroom in significant numbers, according to a city-commissioned study released Friday.... The implementation of IMPACT led to the firing of hundreds of teachers and heightened tensions between the school system and the union that persist today.... The Washington Teachers’ Union has said the evaluation system creates a culture of fear and can be easily weaponized by principals to get rid of teachers they di

Having been cut as low as 0.5%, the policy rate has now returned to its pre-pandemic level of 1.25%.... It could move even higher in response to consumer-price growth, although surging virus cases and global uncertainties cloud the outlook. The appointment will come at a politically sensitive moment, with South Koreans heading to the polls on March 9 to elect a new leader.... Lee’s term ends on March 31. Following are six candidates frequently mentioned in the local media as possible successor

STATE founders are towering figures who play the key role in freeing a state.... This includes Mao, Mugabe, Kim Il-sung and Eritrea’s Afewerki who still rules with an iron fist.... The results were huge abuses and economic and political ruin....