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KUNMING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 6.95 million stems of flowers were transacted Saturday via the electronic auction services of the Kunming Dounan Flower Market, Asia's largest fresh cut flower trading market, up 12.1 percent from Friday. The data were provided by the Kunming International.... |
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MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Foreign Affairs recorded three new active cases of COVID-19 among Filipinos living abroad, the agency announced Saturday. The three new cases were from Asia and the Pacific, but the region also saw nine new recoveries together with the Americas.
There was one recorded death in the Middle East/Africa. |
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Yangon, Myanmar – In a society where a popular saying urges women to “regard her son as her master and her husband as her god,” Buddhist nun Ketumala is already an outlier. The 40-year-old walked away from traditional expectations of marriage and children as a teenager, and has instead spent more.... |
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BANGKOK – Round 2 of a dialogue between Thailand’s education minister and high school students seeking radical reforms took place Saturday, with a robust though mostly polite exchange of views but no resolution. What had been billed by the students as a debate with Education Minister Nataphol.... |
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SHANGHAI Sept. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Reuters reported Friday, September 4 (EST), citing a Defense Department official that the Trump administration is considering whether to add China's top chipmaker SMIC to a trade blacklist. SMIC solemnly declares that the Company, a public company listed on the.... |
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Activists in Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan have revived their calls to boycott the new live action movie “Mulan.” by Disney. The Disney blockbuster movie opened on Friday in cinemas in many Asian countries including Thailand. The campaign first erupted last year, when the film’s lead actress Liu Yifei expressed support for Hong Kong police. |
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The condition of Manchhar, the largest freshwater lake in Asia, started worsening almost two decades ago. The government at the time decided to drain saline water to the Arabian Sea. The construction of two projects, Right Bank Outfall Drain RBOD & Main Nara Valley (MNV) drain, started. The RBOD project is a long faltered one. |
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Police across Australia have arrested protesters as hundreds of people joined demonstrations against covid-19 restrictions. Earlier on Saturday it was unclear how many people would be attending Melbourne ‘s protests. Some anti-covid-19 lockdown groups also shifted to online events However, hundreds.... |
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The live-action film version of Disney’s “ Mulan ” is facing renewed boycott calls from Asian activists. Thai and Taiwanese activists have joined Hong Kong protestors fighting for democratic reform who first raised the call for boycotts of the film last year, after its Chinese-born star sided with.... |
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Newly declassified White House tapes disclose former US president Richard Nixon speaking disparagingly about Indians and reveal the bigotry he and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger held that influenced U.S. policy toward India and South Asia under his presidency. |
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The Iranian men’s team has established itself as one of international volleyball's leading powers and is renowned for producing superstars Saeid Marouf and Seyed Mohammad Mousavi. Now the country's women are starting to make their way to the forefront of Asian volleyball. |
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International buyers plowed a net $6 billion into shares in Asia’s third-largest economy in August, the most since March last year. That’s as all other markets in the region excluding China suffered net withdrawals during the month.
Part of it is a bet that Indian equities will play catch-up after.... |
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Sri Lanka would be provided an opportunity to be the financial hub of the South Asian region once the Colombo Port City is in place. In such a situation even if all the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) members available in Sri Lanka are employed there, it would not be enough to man it and they would need more (accountants). |
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Award winning debut film by Malith Hegoda Dekala Purudu Kenek or ‘The Strange Familiar’ is now being screened at PVR at One Galle face. The film was selected for the prestigious 58th BFI London Film Festival organized by the British Film Institute. It was also competed at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held at Brisbane, Australia. |
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Pan Asia Bank has launched a new Current Account to coincide with its 25th anniversary. The new product invites customers to experience the difference of bearing no additional fees until December 31, 2021. “When customers open this Current Account they do not have to pay any charges other than inward cheque return charges. |
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Saudi Arabia cut pricing for oil sales to Asia and the U.S. for October shipments, a sign that the world’s biggest exporter may see fuel demand wavering amid flare-ups in the coronavirus. State oil producer Saudi Aramco is cutting its benchmark Arab Light crude more than expected and lowering the.... |
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Laos has spent heavily on China-financed hydroelectric schemes with the aim of becoming ‘The Battery of Southeast Asia’. But those projects, along with a new Chinese high speed railway, are at the centre of a debt crunch. |
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India’s shrinking economy is not stopping foreign investors from pouring money into the nation’s stocks betting on a recovery. International buyers plowed a net $6bn into shares in Asia’s third-largest economy in August, the most since March last year. |
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As the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the length and breadth of Asia and the Pacific, finance ministries are continuing their relentless efforts to inject trillions of dollars for emergency health responses and fiscal ... |
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as their destination. This information is in a report by Development Reimagined, an international consultancy based in China. It notes that every year between 2011 and 2016 the number of African students that went to China on average grew 14% faster than the number of Asian students studying in that country. |
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s economic engine has run without a major hitch for nearly three decades. Propped up by rich natural resources, fast-growing trade with Asia, a talented work force and vibrant immigration rates, the country even avoided stumbling during the 2008 global financial crisis. |
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Demonstrating its identity as a ‘Truly Sri Lankan Bank’ that responds to the needs of SME customers, Pan Asia Bank has launched a new Current Account to coincide with its 25th anniversary. The newly-launched Current Account invites customers to experience the difference of bearing no additional fees until December 31, 2021. |
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Deakin University, Australia and Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) Sri Lanka have partnered to offer a pathway which provides students enrolling at APIIT Sri Lanka the option of transferring to Deakin University in Australia after the first year of study at APIIT to complete.... |
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On my way back from the south to Beirut two months ago, Elea crossroad in Saida was closed. As I took the long [S] turn to be able to reach Beirut road again, I came across the Lebanese Army. I stopped the car next to one of the officers and asked him: "What is going on? They are not more than 20.... |
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A new independent 24 page research with title 'How Customers Purchase Critical Illness Insurance 2019' guarantees you will remain better informed than your competition. The study covers geographic analysis that includes regions like North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific etc and important.... |
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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 5, 2020 / of Media Lab Solutions is a young entrepreneur that has paved a path of success from the ground up. Beginning at an early age, Tyler possessed a unique drive to create a larger impact on the world. From moving to southeast Asia to bootstrap his very.... |
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