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An alarming follow-up to the February 2021 Myanmar coup d'état: Yangon moves into PEN America's Top 10 Freedom to Write Index offenders.

An alarming follow-up to the February 2021 Myanmar coup d'état: Yangon moves into the Top 10 Freedom to Write Index offenders.

Freedom to Write Index documents least 277 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 36 countries—in all geographic regions of the world—unjustly imprisoned or held in detention in connection with their writing or other exercise of free expression in 2021. This was a slight increase from 2020, when 273 individuals were counted behind bars, but the past two years, covering the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, both represent a significant increase from 2019, when the Freedom to Write Ind...

Russias interference with satellites is inadvertently dragging commercial airliners into the conflict despite their decision to avoid Ukrainian airspace, a French official said Friday.

Belarus intercept of Ryanair Flight 4978 was a "major concern to civil aviation," according to Safe Airspace, but there are far risker countries to fly over.

PEN America Releases New International Freedom To Write Index The second edition of PEN’s Freedom to Write Index sees an alarming jump in writer detentions from 238 detainees in 2019 to at least 273 in 2020, in 35 countries. Image: PEN America Top Three Offenders: China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Writers, it’s asserted in the opening essay of PEN America’s new Freedom To Write 2020 assessment, released today (April 20), “have played an essential role during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic,...

Benefits for Japanese investors highlighted MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Media OutReach - 12 April 2021 - The Philippines has enacted a landmark law that cuts corporate income tax by as much as 10 percent and rationalizes fiscal incentives, thereby serving as the biggest stimulus for businesses in the countrys history. On March 26, President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11534 or the "Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act" (CREATE) into la...

Benefits for Japanese investors highlighted MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Media OutReach – 12 April 2021 – The Philippines has enacted a landmark law that cuts corporate income tax by as much as 10 percent and rationalizes fiscal incentives, thereby serving as the biggest stimulus for businesses in the country’s history. On March 26, President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11534 or the “Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act” (CREAT...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launched on Thursday a new database project that aims to improve small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) access to finance. This project, called the Credit Risk Database, is a joint initiative of the BSP and the Japan International Cooperation Agency that promotes risk-based lending and reducing the dependence of banks on collaterals during credit evaluation. This will be achieved using statistical credit scoring models to be developed on the CRD that can de...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday launched the Credit Risk Database (CRD) aiming to provide a statistical credit scoring of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which can predict the probability of default in the long run.