Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 10 February 2026, met with Naz Shah MP, the UK’s Trade Envoy to ASEAN, in London. They reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening ASEAN-UK economic cooperation in areas of mutual interest, such as regulatory excellence, supply chain resilience, digital transformation, financial services, and green transi...
Islamabad, 11 February 2026 – Joining Pakistan's Indus AI week, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, and the Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA), convened a high-level policy session titled “Sh...
In line with the Mattei Plan for Africa, the AI Hub for Sustainable Development and Cineca announce 1.5 million Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) hours for 130 Innovators across the African continentNairobi, Kenya | 10 February 2026: The Nairobi AI Forum 2026 announced compute access for 130 innovators across Africa, focused on tackling pressing challenge...
ECB wage tracker updated with wage agreements signed up to mid-January 2026; forward-looking horizon remains unchanged at end-December 2026Forward-looking information continues to indicate that negotiated wage growth will level off at below 3% by the end of 2026ECB wage tracker with unsmoothed one-off payments at 3.0% in 2025 and 2.7% in 2026The European C...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will invest USD75.5 million in the Keppel Private Credit Fund III (KPCF III), together with a co-investment sleeve of up to USD50 million, reinforcing its strategic partnership with Keppel.KPCF III is the successor fund to the Keppel-Pierfront Private Credit Fund (KPPCF), in which AIIB invested as a limited p...
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2026 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a €70 million ($80.97 million equivalent) loan to Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve transport connectivity and modernize road infrastructure, essential drivers of jobs and economic growth. The project is complemented by an €8.5 million ($9.99 million equiv...
Priority reforms include improving childcare, recalibrating social transfers, and closing wage gapsWhen Brazil’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in November 2025—the lowest in a quarter century—it punctuated an impressive turnaround from the pandemic. Yet, while men’s participation in the labor market has returned to its pre-COVID trend, women...
Kyiv, 10 February 2026 – UNESCO has today announced a new US$3.8 million contribution from Japan to support Ukraine’s recovery in the fields of culture, education, and communication and information, as the war is about to enter its fifth year on February 24. This new contribution will allow UNESCO to scale up and sustain its actions on the ground, and un...
Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is projected at 3.2 percent in 2025, with growth expected to hold at 3.1 percent in 2026, according to the latest APEC Regional Trends Analysis report, even as rising trade restrictions and policy uncertainty weigh on the medium-term outlook.The revised outlook marks an upward adjustment from earlier pro...
On 10 February 2026, the Philippines notified the WTO's Committee on Safeguards that it had initiated on 5 February 2026 a safeguard investigation on imports of ceramic tiles.In the notification, the Philippines indicated, among other things, as follows:"4. Provide a point of contact for the investigation and identify the preferred means for corre...
