KARACHI: “In Pakistan, during COVID19, patients are scared to go to hospitals to avoid exposure, elderly are isolated and confined within their home being most at risk, children and pregnant mothers are unable to find doctors in case of emergencies….
DUBAI: Nabil Habayeb, GE’s President and CEO for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, has been named Senior Vice President, GE, and President & CEO, Global Growth Organization (GGO) effective June 1, 2020. Habayeb succeeds Rachel Duan, Senior Vice…
NEW YORK: To keep devices safe from cyber attacks during COVID19 lockdowns, Microsoft has shared some useful guidelines on cybersecurity and data protection. “Our world has changed dramatically over the last couple of months and in an effort to keep…
TRONDHEIM: SpareBank 1 SMN, a Norwegian savings bank, is to lower its residential mortgage lending rate by up to 0.40 percentage points. The change is effective as from 25 May. “This is our third interest rate cut in a short…
OSLO: DNB ASA has Friday decided to reduce the home mortgage interest rate by up to 0.4 percentage points. The price of money has fallen over the past weeks, as a result of market developments and the uncertainty around the…
LOS ANGELES: ePlay Digital Inc. and Howie Mandel are announcing their newest collaboration, SwishAR, the follow up to the widely popular Outbreak mini-game, which is available today. This is the second in the Howie’s Games series, and the first with…
VANCOUVER: Emerging leader in cannabis-infused beverages, BevCanna Enterprises Inc. has signed an agreement with Maritime-based licensed cannabis producer Argentia Gold Corp. to exclusively represent BevCanna’s line of cannabis-infused beverages in Newfoundland, PEI and New Brunswick. The two companies have entered…
SINGAPORE: Biolidics Limited has entered into a distribution agreement with Mediproud Co., Ltd, a company incorporated in Thailand, to appoint Mediproud as a non-exclusive distributor for the Company’s test kits for the detection of the Novel Coronavirus 2019 antibodies (the…
SINGAPORE: Raffles Infrastructure Holdings Limited has won the bid for the Bangladesh Trust Green City Development Project with an estimated value of USD 800 million. Raffles Infrastructure refers to its announcement dated 13 December 2019 in relation to the bidding…
SINGAPORE: Grand Banks Yachts Limited announced that the Group’s manufacturing yard in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, has received approval from the Government of Malaysia to resume operations with immediate effect. As announced on 19 March 2020 and 28 April 2020, the…
SINGAPORE: Boustead Projects Limited, a leading specialist in smart eco-sustainable real estate solutions, announced that its wholly-owned design and-build subsidiary in Malaysia, BP Engineering Solutions Sdn Bhd has secured a significant design-and-build contract to deliver an advanced high-tech industrial facility…
DUBAI: Insurance sector rating agency, AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Dubai Insurance Company (PSC) (DIC). The outlook of these Credit Ratings is stable. The ratings…