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  • [New] Phnom Penh has a low cost of living but offers good job opportunities, especially in tourism, education, and business services. arisecambodia.com
  • Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs is a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education in Alberta that will transform the adult learning system to focus on providing the high quality education, skills and training needed for Alberta's future. Alberta.ca
  • In Jordan, the United States could optimize its $1.45 billion annual Memorandum of Understanding to finance initiatives that prioritize refugee inclusion, like health, education, and job opportunities. Refugees International
  • Could add $1.5 trillion to the global economy by 2030, and create millions of jobs across various sectors, such as health care, education, retail and manufacturing. Business Record
  • The World Economic Forum today announced that more than 680 million people are being reached with better skills, job opportunities and education through commitments made as part of its Reskilling Revolution initiative. Modern Diplomacy
  • The occupational demand for higher education degrees does not match economy needs - the National Center for Education Statistics projected that through 2024 jobs needing a bachelor's degree will be 50% oversupplied and careers requiring a master's degree will be 90% oversupplied. National Center for Construction Education & Research
  • Unlocking Career Success, an initiative of the U.S. Departments of Education, Commerce and Labour, found that by 2027, 70% of U.S. jobs will require education and training beyond high school. The Journal Record
  • Further fragmentation of commodity markets could deliver an additional blow in an already challenging environment of slow global growth, tight financial conditions, and high debt, a blow that would be particularly harsh for some of the most vulnerable economies. IMF eLibrary
  • Russian efforts to cut off supplies of natural gas to Europe to pressure countries to reduce support for Ukraine, including EU support for sanctions against Russia, has dramatized how supply chain dependencies can expose vulnerabilities in a time of crisis. The Diplomat
  • Japan's efforts to reduce its dependence on China reflect a desire to enhance economic security and reduce vulnerability to geopolitical risks and uncertainties. Asia Times
  • Social determinants of health - the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings - contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare. Healthcare IT News
  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may be opening an investigation into the vulnerability that led to the huge hacks of Progress Software's MOVEit vulnerability. it World Canada
  • The global agricultural industry is already one of the most hazardous, failing to meet international standards on basic rights and often exploiting the vulnerability of migrant workers, labour rights advocates say. The Washington Post
  • Amid the horrific stories of Israeli communities murdered and people carried off as hostages by the Hamas attackers, the acute vulnerability of Israel's tens of thousands of migrant workers, many from Southeast Asia, has often been overlooked. The Washington Post
  • Industrial routers made by Chinese company Yifan are affected by several critical vulnerabilities that can expose organizations to attacks. SecurityWeek
  • Researchers discovered three cross-site scripting flaws and one command-injection vulnerability in Supermicro BMCs, which, if combined, could enable arbitrary code execution and allow attackers to gain root privileges. Cyber Fusion Center | Threat Intelligence Solution Comp
  • A series of vulnerabilities found in Supermicro BMC IPMI Firmware could allow attackers to gain complete control of affected systems. Cyber Fusion Center | Threat Intelligence Solution Comp
  • Hezbollah would have to weigh the risk of political blowback at home for any actions: Lebanon is struggling with a calamitous economic collapse and can ill afford a certain and crushing military response from Israel. CBC
  • A vulnerable global economy, already set to slow in 2023 and 2024, is facing new challenges from an escalating war between Israel and Hamas that could upend geopolitics in the Middle East and send energy costs higher. Washington Post
  • Developing states and vulnerable populations may be particularly at risk because humanitarian relief operations (which rely heavily on earth-observation, communications and navigation satellite services) would find it difficult to carry out needs assessments and deliver emergency relief. Sipri
  • Google, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services have jointly unveiled a new zero-day vulnerability dubbed HTTP / 2 Rapid Reset, which was exploited by unidentified threat actors to launch the largest distributed denial of service attack recorded to date. SDxCentral
  • In July, two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu implementation of a popular container-based file system allowed attackers to execute code with root privileges on 40% of Ubuntu Linux cloud workloads. Dark Reading

Last updated: 24 March 2024



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