August2022

Germany can afford another relief package worth billions of euros to fight inflation without compromising the so-called debt brake, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz had last week promised more measures to...

In Chad, insecurity and climate change have resulted in the forced displacement of more than 1 million people. One of the top organizations, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), protects vulnerable migrants throughout the vast, landlocked...

Scorching temperatures in eastern China have pushed up egg prices because hens are laying fewer in a hotter-than-usual summer, local media reported. Extreme weather has become more frequent owing to climate change, scientists say, and this...

A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev’s suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space...

The Cuban government has announced it will allow foreign investment in domestic wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years, in a move aimed at addressing critical shortages of goods. The decision could...

Markets dropped in Asia on Thursday following a sell-off in New York spurred by minutes from the Federal Reserve indicating officials intended to keep lifting interest rates to tackle decades-high inflation. While policymakers said they would...

US central bankers remain committed to raising interest rates further to quell rising prices, but agreed it would be appropriate to slow the pace of the hikes “at some point,” the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. The...

Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown will result in a record contraction of at least eight percent this year but the public could soon expect some relief from runaway inflation, the head of the country’s central bank said...

Wasfia Nazreen, the first Bangladeshi to have summited the notorious K2 – the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain – has just landed in her motherland. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight departing from Kathmandu, Nepal,...

GIZ Bangladesh organized a Sustainable finance training program for 30 bankers of Sylhet, so they support the mobilization of climate and environment-friendly investment from the private sector. The training titled “Sustainable Finance for Sustainability: Challenges and...