nonkinetic operations.... Central to this process was careful consideration of how escalation

PETALING JAYA: Future public infrastructure projects in the country could require more private sector participation, benefitting contractors with lean balance sheets, says RHB Research. The research house in its latest construction sector report said, however, there was a risk of low private sector construction participation if the contractors experience funding limitations as they take up more projects.“ Private funding initiatives are the way forward.“ The government’s limited fiscal headroom

Part two in a series. This series takes in the sweep of the war in Ukraine and its downstream effects both regionally and globally.... The conflict began in 2014, shortly after public protests in Kyiv resulted in Ukraine's pro-Russian president fleeing to Moscow.... Russia responded by backing an armed uprising of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, thus initiating the Donbass War, which, last year, morphed into Russia's full-scale invasion....

Vladimir Putin, telling him to" de-escalate tensions" with Ukraine, Downing Street said. The British

The evolving crisis in Ukraine has generated much discussion about whether Moscow would escalate

Russia’s February 17 response to the American response to Moscow’s demands for security guarantees, published on the same day, coupled with what has been happening in Russian-West relations around Ukraine over the past few days, indicate that in the near future we will see a simultaneous diplomatic

Another package of economic sanctions has been introduced against Belarus. US President Joe Biden signed a new executive order expanding both the number of Belarusian persons under sanctions and the range of restrictive measures applied .

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-All options are on the table in how to respond to Russia's' large and unusual

said that if chemical weapons are used “ then president Putin should know that all possible options are

said that if chemical weapons are used “ then president Putin should know that all possible options are