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Currently, the capital city of Jakarta hosts 108 embassies and several other countries accredit non-resident ambassadors from other capitals. In Jakarta, a large concentration of foreign embassies and missions are clustered around Central Jakarta ( Menteng area and across Jalan MH Thamrin ), and South Jakarta (across Jalan Jenderal Sudirman ...
On 11 February 2014, the Kazakh National Bank chose to devalue the tenge by 19% against the U.S. dollar in response to a weakening of the Russian ruble. [33] On 20 August 2015, the Kazakhstan National Bank did away with the currency band with respect to conversion rate of tenge.
The international dollar (int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$., Intl$., Int$), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time.
The 2022 Kazakh unrest, [a] also known as January Events, [b] [15] [16] [17] Bloody January, [c] [18] [19] or the January Tragedy, [d] [20] [21] was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January.
On October 31, 2018, Kazakhstan deployed 120 Kazakh peacekeepers to serve with the UN mission in furthering peace in south Lebanon. It was the first time Kazakh troops were serving with UNIFIL in the Mission's 40-year history. [143] On August 20, 2020, Kazakhstan deployed a second group of 60 peacekeepers to the UNIFIL. [144]
The loonie was trading 0.6% higher at 1.4345 to the U.S. dollar, or 69.71 U.S. cents, after earlier touching its strongest level since Jan. 22 at 1.4306. ... Canadian dollar notches 13-day high as ...
Armed Brimob police officers during the 2016 Jakarta attacks Police post damaged by suicide bomb attack in front of the Sarinah mall. On 14 January 2016 at 10:40 a.m. local time, several blasts followed by gunfire were reported to have occurred in Central Jakarta, which is home to many luxury hotels, offices and embassies. [11]
Jakarta [c] (/ dʒ ə ˈ k ɑːr t ə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level.