Section: Singapore
Ukraine, creditors agree debt restructuring deal
“The deal agrees a 20 per cent haircut on Ukraine’s stock of sovereign and sovereign guaranteed debt, having immediate debt relief totalling approximately US$3.6 billion,” the finance ministry said in a statement. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine, separatists to strive for full ceasefire from September 1
Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, agreed on Wednesday to strive for an end to all truce violations from next Tuesday, the OSCE and rebel representatives said. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian court jails Ukrainian filmmaker for ‘terrorism’
A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in a prison colony on terror charges in a trial condemned by Kiev, Western rights groups and top film directors. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian court sentences Ukrainian film director to 20 years in jail
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. …read more Source: Channel...
US to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe – Air Force secretary
The United States will deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe very soon as part of a broader effort to support eastern European members of the NATO alliance unnerved by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Air Force Secretary Deborah James said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Merkel says all must be done to implement Minsk peace deal
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine was not being respected and everything must be done to fully implement the broader peace deal reached in Minsk in February. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia’s Lavrov says US signals it wants to mend ties
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow, badly strained over the past year and a half by the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine faces risky year fighting to escape Russian orbit – Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday Ukraine was facing a precarious year, warning that Russia had several strategies to undermine Kiev’s attempts to move towards Europe. …read more Source: Channel...
Templeton bets on Malaysia as Hasenstab says declines overshot
[SAN MATEO] Franklin Templeton, whose contrarian bets made profits in Ireland and face losses in war-torn Ukraine, has been buying debt in Malaysia as global funds flee. …read more Source: The Business...
Ukraine leader urges unity to bring change, combat Russian ‘aggressor’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on all political forces in the country on Sunday to rally behind his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he termed the “Russian aggressor”. …read more Source: Channel...
