South Korean prosecutors indicted Samsung Group's Jay Y. Lee on suspicion of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation in connection with a 2015 merger, dealing a new blow to the head of one of Asia's most valuable companies. Lee, who has already served jail time in connection with a separate.... |
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South Korean prosecutors indicted Samsung Group's Jay Y. Lee on suspicion of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation in connection with a 2015 merger, dealing a new blow to the head of one of Asia's most valuable companies. Lee, who has already served jail time in connection with a separate.... |
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South Korean prosecutors indicted Samsung Group's Jay Y. Lee on suspicion of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation in connection with a 2015 merger, dealing a new blow to the head of one of Asia's most valuable companies. Lee, who has already served jail time in connection with a separate.... |
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Vast ice sheets began to expand some 33,000 years ago, eventually covering much of North America, Northern Europe and Asia, in a period known as the Last Glacial Maximum. At this time, global climate was generally colder and drier than today, while sea levels were at least 100 metres lower. |
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September 2 has a special significance for all coconut-growing countries of the world. It is the day observed annually as ‘World Coconut Day’ in several countries of the Asia-Pacific region, including India. Let me narrate a story about this remarkable fruit and its journey across the globe today. First, the naming. |
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SPiCE Venture Capital has listed its tokenized blockchain fund (SPiCE VC) on Malaysia’s Fusang Exchange as the firm’s director, Tal Elyashiv, turns to Asia in his hunt for token liquidity.
Elyashiv told CoinDesk that Fusang will introduce SPiCE VC to global investors, family offices and.... |
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September 1, 2020. By Jonathan Cable, Leika Kihara and Lucia Mutikani. LONDON/TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Factories across Europe, Asia and North America continued to shake off the coronavirus gloom in August as the global economy emerged from a downturn triggered by the health crisis, thanks in.... |
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Asian factories continued to shake off the coronavirus gloom in August as more bright signs in China raised hopes of a firmer recovery in global demand, reducing pressure on policymakers to take bolder steps to avert a deeper recession. Manufacturing activity in China expanded at the fastest clip in.... |
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, and Divisions Political. Definitions of "Southeast Asia" vary, but most definitions include the area represented by the countries (sovereign states and dependent territories) listed below. All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
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The Chiatibo glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhunkwa, Pakistan, October 16, 2019. — Reuters/Neil Hall/Files.
PARIS/KARACHI: Climate emergency has fuelled a sharp and concerning rise in the volume of glacier lakes, according to a new study based on.... |
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Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta Tuesday to remind residents that coronavirus cases are still surging in one of Asia's worst-hit nations. Photo: AFP.
JAKARTA: Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta Tuesday to.... |
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Ryszard Kapuscinski the Polish writer and journalist. As a foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish News Agency, until 1981, Africa was like a second home to Ryszard Kapuscinski. He was an eyewitness to revolutions, coups, and civil wars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Experience is the best teacher they say. |
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Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta to remind residents that coronavirus cases are still surging. [AFP] Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta Tuesday to remind residents that coronavirus cases are still surging in one of Asia's worst-hit nations. |
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Indonesia stages coffin parade as reminder of virus threat =(Picture+Video)= Jakarta, Sept 1, 2020 (AFP) - Officials in hazmat suits paraded empty coffins through the streets of Jakarta Tuesday to remind residents that coronavirus cases are still surging in one of Asia's worst-hit nations. |
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AFGHANISTAN. Heavy rainfall that started on 25 August in the centre and east of the country has led to flash floods affecting over 2,000 families and resulting in about 145 deaths. Parwan province is currently the most severely impacted with over 870 houses either partially or completely damaged,.... |
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LONDON (Reuters) - The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) appointed veteran Swedish economist Erik Berglof as its first chief economist on Tuesday. Berglof joins the Beijing-headquartered multilateral lender from the London School of Economics, having also been chief economist.... |
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TEHRAN, Sep. 01 (MNA) – Referring to the failure of US plots to change the geographical map of the world by forming the new Middle East in favor of its interests, the Iranian Parliament member believes that the US has become angry over this failure.
The United States was plotting to infiltrate into.... |
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Dear Ms. Wegman, Greetings from PETA. I hope this message finds you well. We’ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about reconsidering your business relationship with Chaokoh, a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand’s coconut industry. |
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Amit Varma talks about his continuously evolving career, his libertarian ideology, and his views on nationalism. india Updated: Sep 01, 2020 17:43 IST.
This week, Amit Varma joins Milan Vaishnav (Director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) to talk about.... |
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India hardest-hit by Covid-19 in Asia, a nation-wide peak may still be some distance away: IPHA So far, India has reported about 36 lakh Covid-19 cases with 64,469 deaths. india Updated: Sep 01, 2020 17:32 IST.
Asian News International | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
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Myanmar will reposition itself as a leading sustainable destination as part of a raft of measures unveiled in a white paper aimed at tourism recovery. Entitled Tourism and Covid-19 in Myanmar: Priorities for Restarting Tourism, the white paper outlines a series of recommendations to help stimulate the industry once borders reopen. |
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It is the year 1644. The ruler of a leading kingdom of South and Southeast Asia is holding court to discuss the large-scale relocation of people from his Bengali province of Chatigan (16th century Portuguese name for Chittagong) to the centre of his ethnically distinct country on the eastern shore of the Bay of Bengal. |
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Thailand’s Centara Hotels & Resorts has signed agreements with developer SL International Construction to manage three new hotels in Myanmar. The agreements cover the management of Centra by Centara Hotel Thiri Hpa-An, Hpa-An Hilltop Resort & Spa, and Centara Hotel Mandalay. |
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The Future of Myanmar’s Peace Process: Same Old Challenges or New Progress?
A closer look at the deeper dynamics in one of Asia’s most protracted conflicts and what lies ahead.
The holding of yet another round of peace talks in Myanmar last week once again exposed a familiar reality: That despite.... |
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to James Rodehaver, Senior Human Rights Officer based in the OHCHR South-East Asia Regional Office , three years after the violence that forced over 700,000 Rohingyas from their homes in northern Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh, “conditions inside the country have deteriorated and little has.... |
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