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(Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. raised $8 billion in its first non-convertible dollar bond sale in at least two decades, in one of the biggest ever deals in Asia. The Japanese carmaker sold the dollar securities in four parts, and may debut a public euro note offering as soon as Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. |
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SEOUL, South Korea Sept. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Korea Ginseng Association announced that Korean ginseng is registered as a 'publicly listed functional ingredient for bone health" by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) last July. With this news, development of various health functional.... |
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BENGALURU: Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) is acquiring Nasdaq-listed IT services & digital engineering company Virtusa in an all-cash deal that values the transaction at $2 billion. The price per share is a premium of about 27% to the closing price of Virtusa’s stock on Wednesday. |
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Brunei, Timor-Leste, Laos, and Singapore opened schools in June; Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand opened in July; Cambodia opened in August; and Vietnam resumed classes in May and will open the new term in September. Department of Education Secretary Leonor Briones had earlier said that after the deferment of the Aug. |
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MANILA -- Remember the cheerful elevator attendant who became an Internet sensation and even had her life story featured on "
She is back, this time to promote safe movie watching. Cheridel Alejandrino was spotted at the launch of SM's launch of its drive-in cinema at the Mall of Asia concert grounds in Pasay City early this week. |
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WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Southeast Asian countries to reconsider business deals with the 24 Chinese companies and individuals that Washington sanctioned last month for their roles in constructing Beijing's artificial islands in the South China Sea. |
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Indonesian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could contribute an additional US$164 billion to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024 if they become more digitally mature, according to a recent study. The 2020 Asia Pacific Small Medium Business Digital Maturity Study by technology.... |
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MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The world changed on Aug 5, but very few people noticed. On that day, the US State Department detailed the "Clean Network to Safeguard America's Assets" program, a follow-through on the John S. McCain National Defense Authorisation Act of 2019. |
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BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - ByteDance, the Chinese owner of video-sharing app TikTok, is planning to make Singapore its beachhead for the rest of Asia as part of its global expansion, according to people familiar with the matter. The Beijing-based company is looking to spend several billion dollars and.... |
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PARIS, Sept 11, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Public trust in vaccine safety is slowly growing in Europe even as it dips in parts of Asia and Africa, researchers said Friday, calling for more investment in health information campaigns for the forthcoming Covid-19 vaccine. |
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HONG KONG, Sept 11, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Most markets in Asia resumed their downward path Friday following another tech-led rout on Wall Street as investors fret over high valuations, while the failure of US lawmakers to reach agreement on a much-needed stimulus added to the gloom. |
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Traditionally, all tastings are done in person by judges who gather from across the globe. But the global Covid-19 pandemic meant the beers were "black-wrapped" and sent out to judges across Europe, Asia, Canada and Brazil who tasted them at home and connected for judging sessions via Zoom. |
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SEAR/PR/1740. Bangkok - All Member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region today resolved to collectively fight COVID-19 and strengthen the Region’s response with better equipped health systems to deliver essential health services during the pandemic. “The spread of COVID-19 has impacted almost.... |
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday urged Southeast Asian countries to reconsider business deals with the 24 Chinese companies and individuals that Washington sanctioned last month for their roles in constructing Beijing's artificial islands in the South China Sea. |
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00:00 It's interesting because we have all these headlines about the complications with this bite dance deal that we champion. And yet we continue to see an Asia tag actually outperforming quite well in the last couple of weeks or so. How do you begin to model these types of bans and disruptions right now. |
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Global Coronavirus pandemic has impacted all industries across the globe, Mass Analyzers market being no exception. As Global economy heads towards major recession post 2009 crisis, Cognitive Market Research has published a recent study which meticulously studies impact of this crisis on Global.... |
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Many Asian economies are suffering historic slumps. It’s visible in the mothballed planes parked at empty terminals, the once-bustling central business districts that have emptied, and the rising number of boarded-up shopfronts. Just don't look for it in the region’s unemployment figures. |
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Like a lot of countries in East and Southeast Asia, Thailand has done a pretty spectacular job of controlling the coronavirus pandemic. There have been just 3,446 confirmed cases of the disease, and 58 deaths, in a country of nearly 70 million inhabitants. |
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Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia by Mongabay.com Latin America has more than twice as many plant species as tropical Africa and Southeast Asia and accounts for about a third of global biological diversity, concludes a new study published today in the journal Science Advances. |
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Peter Byass's wide-ranging career in global health was characterised by his deep commitment to strengthening capacity, whether it was of the students he mentored, the networks he helped develop, or the health systems of the countries across Asia and Africa where he did much of his research. |
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DUBLIN Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Asia Pacific Antibiotics Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Drug Class; Action Mechanism; and Country" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Asia Pacific antibiotics market is expected to reach US$ 15,784. |
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DUBLIN Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Asia Pacific Antibiotics Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Drug Class; Action Mechanism; and Country" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Asia Pacific antibiotics market is expected to reach US$ 15,784. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks looked set to drop after a fresh selloff in megacap technology shares sent U.S. equities to their fourth loss in five days. Treasuries rose with the dollar. Futures pointed lower in Japan and Australia, though were little changed in Hong Kong. S&P 500 contracts opened with small gains. |
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Highlights. UNICEF works in 22 countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia Region (ECAR) and is present in Italy, supporting refugee and migrant populations. • Between July and August, a surge in new COVID-19 cases in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Moldova,.... |
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