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Richard Teng: Who is the new boss of Binance?
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... Prior to joining Binance, Mr Teng worked in the more traditional financial and regulatory sectors as a director of corporate finance at the Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) and a chief regulatory officer of the Singapore Exchange (SGX)...
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... " We are not going to export a single animal if there is no authorization from the environmental Authority Of the other country...
How Ghana's central bank lost $5bn in one year
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... It undermines the moral Authority Of the bank to supervise Ghana s commercial banks...
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... It may be difficult to repay the loan without regular international flights, " says Tri Ratna Manandhar, the former director general of the Civil Aviation Authority Of Nepal...
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... But a government source told the BBC the scale of difficulties was " much worse than thought" and accused the Authority Of failing in its basic duties...
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... And such abuses also undermine the moral Authority Of bodies such as the African Union - or the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), often labelled an " incumbent presidents club" - in seeking to force coup leaders to restore elected civilian rule...
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... The country s central bank and financial regulator, The Monetary Authority Of Singapore, " where the potentially tainted funds have been identified"...
Ukraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia
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... This included the imposed Authority Of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) over Ukraine s churches...
Ukraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia
By Jaroslav LukivBBC News
Ukraine has moved its official Christmas Day state holiday from 7 January to 25 December, the latest move aimed at distancing itself from Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law a parliamentary bill that aimed to " abandon The Russian heritage of imposing Christmas celebrations".
In recent years, Kyiv has been cutting religious, cultural and other ties with Russia, aligning itself with The West .
This process escalated following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
Mr Zelensky signed The Bill on Friday - Two Weeks after it had been passed by Ukrainian lawmakers.
The legislation also moves another religious holiday, Day of Ukrainian Statehood, from 28 July to 15 July, and The Defenders ' Day, which commemorates armed forces veterans, from 14 October to 1 October.
Moscow has So Far made no public comments on the issue.
For centuries, first imperial Russia And Then the Moscow-dominated Soviet Union had tried - But Always failed - to totally control Ukraine.
This included the imposed Authority Of The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) over Ukraine's churches.
But in 2019, the recently formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was granted independence by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, The Head of the global Orthodox Church.
The Move provoked a furious response in The Roc , which is openly defending President Vladimir Putin 's invasion of Ukraine.
Until this year, the OCU - Like several other Orthodox churches, including The Roc - Celebrated Christmas Day on 7 January, In Line with the Julian calendar.
But the OCU has now officially switched to the more-precise Gregorian calendar used in most parts of The World .
Ukraine's decision to move Christmas is the latest step by the country to distance itself from its north-eastern neighbour.
Cities and villages all over Ukraine have recently seen renaming of their streets linked to Russian and Soviet historical figures.
Similarly, A Number of monuments have been Taken Down , and Russian films made after 2014 banned in Ukraine.
Those measures followed Russia's illegal annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in March 2014.
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