Islands has picked up pace on its way to the sea and is now within about 800 meters( 875 yards) of the

The growth outlook for 2023 and 2024 remain unchanged at 3% and 2.7%, respectively.... “ We think global headwinds will overwhelm and dampen the reopening tailwind, ” Maybank Kim Eng’s economists Chua Hak Bin and Lee Ju Ye said in a report to clients dated May 25.... They maintain their below-consensus growth forecast of 2.8% for this year....

The widely followed inflation gauge rose 1% from a month earlier, topping all estimates.... That raises the risk of a recession, which some economists already saw as likely next year. Two-year Treasury yields jumped, stock futures fell and the dollar rose after the report.... Energy prices climbed 34.6% from a year earlier, the most since 2005, including a nearly 49% jump in gasoline costs....

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian manufacturing sector could hit a bump in its recovery path despite the positive economic outlook projected for 2022. The sector forms the biggest industrial production index( IPI) component and constitutes 24.3% of last year’s gross domestic product( GDP). Based on the March manufacturing purchasing managers index( PMI) figures, Maybank Investment Bank( Maybank IB) Research said there could be a risk of further slowing in the manufacturing sector, amid the Russia-Ukr

BENGALURU( REUTERS)-India's vaccinations over the next few weeks could fall short of the blistering

Major highways to Durban, one of Africa’s busiest Indian Ocean ports, were also closed and barricaded, with more than 27 trucks burned in KwaZulu-Natal. Police also are investigating 132 cases of arson, including the burning of 11 warehouses and 8 factories.... The violence was finally quelled when 25, 000 army troops were deployed. South Africa is battling a resurgence of COVID-19.... The country reported 14, 858 new infections and 433 deaths Friday, according to the Africa Centers for Diseas

vaccines a day.... Skeptics are sometimes swayed by rumors and online misinformation about vaccines

also asking the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation( JCVI) about cutting the time people

, depending on the future path of virus containment, the pace of vaccination rate as well as the time

. The department was optimistic due to the rapid pace of Covid vaccinations.... Let us look at some