BlackRock US global investment giant BlackRock has appointed Geraldine Buckingham as chair and head of BlackRock Asia Pacific, as the $ 6.4 trillion manager continues its Asia-Pacific pivot. Buckingham, global head of corporate strategy at BlackRock, will succeed Ryan Stork from February 2019. The shift comes as BlackRock continues to consider Asia-Pacific as one of its […]
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Twitter expands its video programming in Asia-Pacific
Twitter’s quest for video dominance isn’t confined in the US or even in the West, and its team up with a bunch of new partners prove that. At a conference in Singapore, the platform has revealed a bevy of content partnerships that would bring hundreds of hours of livestreams and other videos to the platform […]
She's Transforming Cancer Care in the Asia-Pacific Region
When Cathie Reid purchased her first pharmacy in 1998, her goal wasn’t to change cancer care in Asia. She simply wanted to improve health care delivery in her native Australia — a natural objective for someone who started working in a pharmacy when she was 16. And, knowing that cancer treatment was the largest component […]
Lavrov: US antimissile deployment in Asia-Pacific ‘disproportionate’ to Pyongyang threat
Published time: 20 Mar, 2017 09:37 South Korea’s decision to deploy the THAAD antimissile system from the US is disproportionate to the threat posed by North Korea, which was voiced as justification by both Seoul and Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “We have drawn attention to the serious risks posed by the deployment […]
