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Bahrain quietly launches offset policy 29 April 2021 by Charles Forrester Bahrain is the latest country in the Gulf region to launch a defence offset policy. Known as the BDF Economic Programme, the new policy aims to support economic development in the Kingdom via the procurements of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF). The new policy covers defence procurements valued at more than USD7 million, with a requirement for 60% of the contract value to be discharged by the supplier. Companies that already have an existing offset agreement with the BDF will also be required to fulfil an offset agreemen...

Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021 05:25 PM MYT Deputy Chief Statistician (Economic Programme) Datin Seri Rozita Talha said that, so far, only 16.6 million or 50.9 per cent of the estimated 32.7 million Malaysians have completed the census. — Picture by Firdaus Latif Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUANTAN, April 27 — The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) has requested all parties to fully cooperate in completing the Population and Housing Census 2020 (Census 2020), which ends on June 30. Deputy Chief Statistician (Economic Programme) Datin Seri...

April 20, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from New Left Review — Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 1 Today, with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in jail, including scores of journalists, politicians, lawyers and civil servants, Turkey is exporting ra...