A landslide and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 41 people in Nepal and India in the past week, officials said yesterday, as the annual monsoon season enters its final stretch after claiming hundreds of lives in South Asia. Ten people, including four children, were killed after a.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KT Corporation (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT), South Korea's largest telecommunications company, has built a national data center to manage and remote control electricity service for Uzbekistan's 8 million utility users, securing a foothold for entering the Central Asian market. |
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NEW DELHI -- India's gross domestic product contracted 23.9% year-on-year from April to June, when Asia's third-largest economy was shackled by one of the world's strictest lockdowns to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Economists had predicted a contraction of anywhere from 15% to 25% for the quarter, the first of the country's financial year. |
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Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI. Headline: ASIA/MALAYSIA – Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur: taking care of each other is the vocation of the nation. Kuala Lunmpur – “This year will be remembered by many as the year where we all had to make radical changes. With many of our plans cancelled, our schedules.... |
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Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI. Headline: ASIA/INDONESIA – New minor Seminary in Kalimantan. Banjarmasin – Young people attracted by the Gospel and eager to discover their vocation to the priesthood have a place that will accompany their human and spiritual growth: in southern Kalimantan – province.... |
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Chandigarh [India], Aug 31, (ANI/NewsVoir): BSE listed CHD Chemicals Ltd., a chemicals and dyes manufacturing, trading and distribution Company has bagged a Rs 56 crore export order. The company is expanding its business throughout the region of South East Asia and for the same purpose the company.... |
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Air Asia advised guests to check the latest travel restrictions and advice of respective local and national governments before travelling, as policies may change frequently. The budget airline reported a net loss of P2.31 billion in the second quarter, a reversal of the P353-million net income in the same period last year. |
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European markets are continuing to trade higher Monday after nearly all Asian indices sustained serious losses. The CAC-40 in Paris is up 0.5%, while Frankfurt’s DAX index is 0.4% higher at the midday mark. The FTSE index in London is closed for a public holiday. |
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Asia Today: Australia records its deadliest day of pandemic |
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MUMBAI: Dharavi residents have decided to intensify their agitation following the state government 's plan to invite fresh bids for the redevelopment of the Asia's largest slum . The core team of the Dharavi Redevelopment Committee, a federation of 52 associations of residents, has already taken a.... |
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Australia recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic Monday as the government urged hot spot Victoria state to announce plans to lift a lockdown on the country’s second-largest city. Victoria’s health department reported 41 deaths from COVID-19 and 73 new infections in the latest 24-hour period. |
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Ishiba, 63, steered clear of declaring his candidacy in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, even as opinion polls showed he was the people’s choice to become the country’s next leader. |
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April 15, 1969 marked one of the deadliest days for the United States in postwar Asia. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of North Korea was unprovoked, and cost the lives of thirty-one Americans. Despite stern calls from Congress to avenge the deaths of the American servicemen, President Richard M. |
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These are exciting times for Tan Kheng Hua. Earlier this year, the actress scored a main cast role in The CW’s Kung Fu, an upcoming reboot of the 1970s action series of the same title. Kung Fu is being remade with an Asian female protagonist, as opposed to the male character played by David Carradine. |
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Global Automotive Image Sensors Market Overview: 2025 Automotive Image Sensors are image sensors used in automotive. In terms of region, the global automotive panoramic windshield market can be segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East & Africa. |
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Once the world's fastest-growing major economy, India is set to post the steepest quarterly decline in gross domestic product in Asia as it quickly becomes the global hotspot for coronavirus infections. With more than 65,000 new infections a day and total cases topping 3 million in a country of 1. |
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Floods triggered by heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in South Asia, the one of the world’s most densely populated geographical regions, pummeling countries that have already been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the monsoon season began, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal.... |
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AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes. AirAsia’s founder Tony Fernandes is building what he hopes will be the region’s next "super app" as he deals with the coronavirus travel downturn. He wants to rival the likes of Grab, GoJek and WeChat with an all-in-one mobile platform for food delivery, banking, shopping, payments and travel. |
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AirAsia’s founder Tony Fernandes is building what he hopes will be the region’s next "super app" as he deals with the coronavirus travel downturn. He wants to rival the likes of Grab, GoJek and WeChat with an all-in-one mobile platform for food delivery, banking, shopping, payments and travel. |
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Given the sluggish financial performance, all eyes now are on Malaysia's national oil company Petronas, which is set to announce its second-quarter financial performance on Sept 4. Asia School of Business (ASB) assistant professor of business and society Dr Renato Oliveira de Lima said to some.... |
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China announced Monday that manufacturing activity expanded in August, with the official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for that month coming in at 51.0, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Developments in Japanese politics were watched by investors on Monday, as the search for.... |
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by Yao Lan. HONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Floods triggered by heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in South Asia, the one of the world's most densely populated geographical regions, pummeling countries that have already been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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They also called for passing new torture and enforced disappearance law, and presented four proposals to prevent their recurrence. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, Amnesty International, Cross Cultural Foundation, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, Union for Civil Liberty and Human Rights.... |
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JINAN, China , Aug. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Connecting Shandong with Fortune Global 500" series of events, hosted by the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and Shandong Provincial People's Government, organized by the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province , and sponsored by FORTUNE CHINA.... |
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(Bloomberg) — Activist climate investors warned Samsung C&T Corp. over its potential involvement in a new coal power plant in Southeast Asia amid mounting global pressure to halt use of the dirtiest fossil fuel. Investment arms of Legal & General Group Plc, the U.K. |
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