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South Korea lifts president's martial law decree after lawmakers reject military ruleStrategic hire underscores Assembly's commitment to bolstering its leadership team to deliver best-in-class services and results for its clients. NEW YORK , Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Assembly, a leading global marketing agency within the Stagwell (STGW) network, today announced the appointment of Josh Berman as Executive Vice President, Assembly Lead. Earlier this year, Assembly unveiled a new operating structure with teams organized into 'Assemblies' based on geography and industry sector. Based in New York , Berman will co-lead Assembly East, focusing on deepening brand relationships, driving innovation, and providing more rigor, expertise, and growth for clients. Berman brings 15 years of media industry experience to Assembly. Most recently, as Managing Partner and Client Lead at Wavemaker, he led media planning and buying for a major Church & Dwight brand and contributed to global product development initiatives, leveraging data and technology to craft effective marketing solutions. Over his career, Josh has partnered with marquee brands across various industries, including Citi, Campbell's , IKEA, Tiffany & Co., Amgen, Marriott, and AT&T. Berman's appointment is part of Assembly's ongoing growth efforts, ensuring that the agency remains at the forefront of the industry and continues to meet clients' evolving needs. "Our clients get the best of both worlds—an agency big enough to lead yet small enough to care—which means each client receives the attention, dedicated leadership, and prioritization the industry and clients are demanding," said Rick Acampora , Global CEO of Assembly. "Josh's extensive experience in media strategy, analytics, client leadership, and innovation, coupled with his ability to fuse media and creative to unlock and accelerate brand performance, will be instrumental as we continue to elevate and find the change that fuels growth for our clients. We are thrilled to have him join our team." Berman's role is effective immediately. ABOUT ASSEMBLY Assembly is a leading global omnichannel media agency that merges data, talent, and technology to catalyze growth for the world's most esteemed brands. Our holistic approach weaves together compelling brand narratives with a comprehensive suite of global media capabilities, driving performance and fostering significant business expansion. Our initiatives are powered by STAGE, our proprietary operating system, and executed by a dedicated global team of over 2,300 professionals across 35 offices worldwide. 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By Michael Foli Jackidy Kpando (V/R), Dec. 28, GNA – Mr Sebastian Deh, the newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kpando Constituency, has unveiled his vision to transform the constituency, focusing on three main pillars: Education and Skills Development, Agribusiness and Water and Sanitation Speaking at a media engagement in Kpando, Mr Deh emphasised that his vision aims to address the constituency’s pressing developmental needs, with a commitment to working hard to achieve tangible results. The first pillar of Mr. Deh’s vision centers on empowering the youth through education and skills training. “I believe education and skills development are the bedrock of any meaningful development. My focus is to strengthen institutions and enhance the capacities of teachers and facilitators to provide quality training,” he stated. He highlighted two key institutions in the constituency, Kpando Technical Institute and Sovie Professional Institute, as central to this initiative. “These institutions have the potential to be transformed into centers of excellence. They are strategically positioned to train young people in technical and vocational skills, making them more employable and self-reliant,” he said. Mr Deh noted that Kpando Technical Institute had already been upgraded from a category three technical institute to a category one, a transformation he seeks to sustain and expand. He also plans to introduce more apprenticeship programs and modernize the infrastructure and faculty at these institutions to match global standards. The second pillar of his vision is to harness Kpando’s natural resources, particularly its proximity to the Lake, to boost agribusiness and create jobs. “Kpando is blessed with 21 kilometers of coastline along the Lake. This presents enormous opportunities for fishing, aquaculture, and related industries. Improving the fishing industry is one of my priorities,” Mr. Deh explained. He also highlighted the importance of infrastructure development, particularly the improvement of roads leading to fishing hubs. “A good road network will facilitate access to markets and enhance productivity,” he added. Mr Deh said he planned to collaborate with government agencies and development partners to implement agribusiness projects that would not only benefit fishermen but also create value chains that include fish processing and export. His vision he noted would focus on improving water access and sanitation in the constituency, which he described as critical yet neglected areas. “Kpando has struggled with perennial water shortages for decades. While some progress has been made, many remote communities still lack access to clean water,” he noted. To address this, Mr Deh had already initiated projects to drill modern mechanised boreholes in underserved areas and would expand these efforts to ensure every community has access to potable water. On sanitation, he described the current situation as “an eyesore” and pledged to channel resources toward improving waste management and public hygiene. “Sanitation is key to public health, and I will work tirelessly to ensure Kpando becomes a clean and healthy place for its residents,” he assured. Born into a family of 14 in Kpando Dzoanti, Mr. Deh’s journey has been one of perseverance and hard work. After completing Mawuli Secondary School, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Ghana, Legon, before embarking on a distinguished banking career that spanned 16 years. Rising to the position of General Manager in several banks, including United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Deh developed expertise in project finance and skills development. He later worked as a consultant for the Council for Technical and Vocational Education Training (COTVET) where he managed the Skills Development Fund, a challenge fund supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In 2017, he was appointed Executive Director of COTVET, driving government policies to transform technical and vocational education in Ghana. His efforts contributed to the conversion of six polytechnics into technical universities and enhanced skills delivery across vocational institutions. In 2017, Mr Deh transitioned to mainstream politics, contesting the parliamentary primaries in 2020. Although he did not win then, he remained actively involved in the National Democratic Congress (NDC), contributing significantly to the party’s policy development. He was a member of the committee that drafted the ”People’s Manifesto” focusing on job creation and skills development. This role cemented his reputation as a leader who understands the intersection of education, employment, and economic growth. He contested the primaries again and won and became the Parliamentary Candidate. In the 2024 election he won overwhelmingly, securing the Kpando parliamentary seat with 84 per cent of the vote, a significant improvement from the NDC’s 49 per cent in the previous election. Mr Deh is optimistic that his background in finance, education, and project management will enable him to deliver on his promises. “With the natural and human resources available in Kpando, and with the support of my government, I am confident that we can lift this constituency to new heights. My vision is not just to repair and revive but to restore Kpando’s glory and make it a model constituency,” he concluded. Mr Deh’s comprehensive approach, rooted in practical experience and a deep understanding of his constituency’s needs, offers hope for a brighter and more prosperous future for Kpando. 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Manmohan Singh, the Gandhi family confidant who freed India’s economy from Soviet-inspired controls and was one of the country’s longest serving prime ministers, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to AIIMS Delhi hospital on Thursday in a critical condition, local media reported earlier. He was one of India’s “most distinguished leaders” and the country mourned his loss, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post on social media platform X. Singh, a Sikh who studied economics at both Oxford and Cambridge universities, is the only Indian to have served as central bank governor, finance minister and prime minister, the latter as the first from a religious minority. From 1991 to 1996, he scrapped quotas for state companies, abolished a complex system of permits and opened the door to foreign companies, cutting loose an economy that increased seven times in size in more than two decades to become Asia’s third-largest. Born in what is now Pakistan, Singh, usually clad in his trademark sky-blue turban and white tunic, was respected for his simple lifestyle in a nation plagued by political scandals. For a decade, he ran the world’s largest democracy for Sonia Gandhi’s Indian National Congress party. Singh was born to parents Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on Sept. 26, 1932, in the village of Gah, part of the Punjab province awarded to Pakistan upon independence from British rule 15 years later. He said in November 2008 that he had spent the first 10 years of his life in that dusty village, where there was no doctor, school, electricity or clean drinking water. “In my childhood I had to walk a long distance to go to school. I read under the dim light of a kerosene lamp,” Singh said in April 2010. “I am what I am today because of education. I want every Indian child, girl and boy, to be so touched by the light of education.” Singh earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Panjab University before completing an honors degree in economics at the University of Cambridge’s St. John’s College in 1957. He then gained a doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield College in 1962. By the time of partition in 1947, Singh’s family had moved to Amritsar, now in India’s Punjab state and home to the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine. Sikhs account for almost 2% of India’s population. After joining India’s finance ministry and later becoming governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1982 to 1985, Singh was appointed finance minister in the Congress government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao in 1991. Forced into action by a surge in oil prices that evaporated India’s foreign-exchange reserves, Singh began removing barriers to investment. He cut import tariffs, permitted foreign companies to set up plants and removed the need for new factories to require government authorization. “We were in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, and it was time to think big, not to shrink,” Singh told PBS in a 2001 interview. A decade earlier, in a budget speech to parliament, he had borrowed a phrase from Victor Hugo to tell lawmakers, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” Singh’s premiership began by default. The Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, drove Congress to electoral victory in 2004. She then turned down the opportunity to run the government on concern that her foreign ancestry would trigger sustained protests by Hindu nationalists, so she picked Singh for the job. He presided over record economic growth averaging 8.3% from 2004 to 2010, steering India through a global recession, and forged closer U.S. ties. Sonia Gandhi remained as Congress president and managed the multiparty governing alliance, creating what India Today magazine in May 2010 called “a curious separation of powers.” “Manmohan Singh was no ordinary PM,” Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former deputy chairman of planning body and former economic affairs secretary wrote in his book “Backstage,” recalling Singh’s handling of the 2008 global financial crisis. “He had a long experience in dealing with the international economy and had also dealt with the 1991 crisis. Except we were not battling a crisis that had exploded, as in 1991. We were only preparing to avoid one.” Singh’s opponents were harsher. Lal Krishna Advani, a leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, branded him “the weakest prime minister” ever. The shy Singh, a technocrat in a political system dominated by powerful elites, had in 1999 lost the only parliamentary election he fought. Singh returned from heart surgery in January 2009 to lead Congress to its biggest election victory in 20 years. He ended up disappointing investors with few moves to extend his market-opening policies of the 1990s, and charges of corruption against a member of his cabinet sparked street protests in 2011, eventually paving the way for Modi’s BJP to wrest control of parliament. “I don’t believe in legacy — it depends who writes it and when,” Singh said in a December 2011 interview with Bloomberg News. “In 1991, when I started the economic liberalization of the economy, the opposition said the finance minister should be impeached.” Before the 2014 elections, Singh defended his record, saying he oversaw the economy’s fastest-ever expansion that helped to lift 138 million people out of poverty. “There may be zigzags along the way, but the path is the one I set,” he said in the 2011 interview. “It is my conviction that it is the only path to reduce the chronic poverty millions still live under.” Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, had three daughters, Upinder, Daman and Amrit.
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