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Author: Ronald May, ANU2022 was an election year in Papua New Guinea (PNG), so electoral politics dominated much of the first half of the year. Polling took place over three weeks in July, with more than 3600 candidates contesting the…

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, on day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPalantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp knows many tech workers in Silicon Valley have misgivings about his…

Shares in Robert Walters dropped on Tuesday after the British recruiter warned that full-year profit would be below market expectations given signs of a slowdown in the jobs markets in several key regions. Robert Walters, a specialist in…

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a weeklong trip Monday to strengthen military ties with Europe and Britain and bring into focus the Japan-U.S. alliance at a summit in Washington, as Japan breaks from its postwar…

New York CNN  —  The US government is stepping into a contentious, multijurisdictional legal battle over the ownership of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assets…

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to advance annexation of West Bank land as part of a coalition deal with the far-right Religious Zionism party, Israeli television reported Thursday. However, the commitment is…

Washington — The $1.7 trillion spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown unveiled early Tuesday includes a ban on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, in what would be the most significant restriction on…

The government is extending the mortgage guarantee scheme, which helps buyers with small deposits get on the property ladder as higher borrowing costs threaten to put the brakes on the UK housing market in 2023.The scheme, launched in…

Hong Kong office space demand dampened from high interest rates: CBREDemand for office spaces in Hong Kong has remained low as the city continues to grapple with high interest rates, said Marcos Chan, executive director and head of…

It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of the country intervened to keep the price of the lira unchanged for nearly two months, as the Central Bank enacts decisions or pumped amounts of foreign currencies into…