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“For India, the report estimates job loss for 4.1 million youth. Construction and agriculture have witnessed the major job losses among seven key sectors,” the report titled ‘Tackling the Covid-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific’, said. |
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, the report estimates job loss for 4.1 million youth. Construction and agriculture have witnessed the major job losses among seven key sectors," said the ILO-ADB report, titled 'Tackling the COVID-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific', released on Tuesday. |
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MANILA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific on Tuesday lauded the Philippines' efforts to suppress COVID-19, urging the Southeast Asian country to further to improve its strategy. "The Philippine government has been putting a lot of efforts to continuously.... |
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CANBERRA -- Australia's State of Victoria has recorded its fewest number of new coronavirus cases in a month. As of Tuesday afternoon there had been 23,773 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia, and the number of new cases in last 24 hours is 226, according to an update from Michael Kidd, Australia's deputy chief medical officer. |
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The Philippines, which has suffered the highest outbreak in South East Asia, is now studying the mutation at the Philippine Genome Center, to understand its threat. The mutation was detected in the Philippines in nine randomly selected positive Covid-19 tests collected in Quezon City last month. |
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Southeast Asia is facing a strain of the new coronavirus that the Philippines, which faces the region’s largest outbreak, is studying to see whether the mutation makes it more infectious. The strain, earlier seen in other parts of the world and called D614G, was found in a Malaysian cluster of 45.... |
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Highlights. • As of 14 August 2020, 524,105 positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed in East Asia and Pacific, with 15,001 deaths. After months of steady decline, many countries have seen increases in cases over the past month. Philippines (143,749) and Indonesia (130,718) continue to record the highest number of cases. |
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The Philippines, which has suffered the highest outbreak in South East Asia, is now studying the mutation at the Philippine Genome Center, to understand its threat. The mutation was detected in the Philippines in nine randomly selected positive Covid-19 tests collected in Quezon City last month. |
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The Philippines, which has suffered the highest outbreak in South East Asia, is now studying the mutation at the Philippine Genome Center, to understand its threat. The mutation was detected in the Philippines in nine randomly selected positive Covid-19 tests collected in Quezon City last month. |
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By Nayla Barakat Manama, Aug. 18 (BNA): Bahrain, represented by the Supreme Council for Environment, hosted the First Ministerial Meeting on COVID-19 and the Environment in West Asia. The meeting, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia, aimed to.... |
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BANGKOK -- Thai national oil and gas conglomerate PTT is in talks to acquire stakes in renewable power generating companies in India and Taiwan as it looks to raise its renewable power output capacity to 8 gigawatts by 2030, the Nikkei Asian Review has learned. |
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The Philippines, which has suffered the highest outbreak in South East Asia, is now studying the mutation at the Philippine Genome Center, to understand its threat. The mutation was detected in the Philippines in nine randomly selected positive Covid-19 tests collected in Quezon City last month. |
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Attractive destination. Alexander Gold, chairman of Singaporean fintech company Bankograph Pte Limited, shares that Vietnam is regarded as an important strategic market in which to develop cross-border financial supply chains that are capable of connecting Southeast Asia with the rest of the world. |
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The official four-day visits of US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to Taiwan in August 2020, marked the senior most US visit to this self-governing island since formal diplomatic relations were severed in 1979 in deference to China. This is going to be a fresh thorn in prickly US-China ties. |
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An increasingly common mutation of the novel coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appears to be less deadly, according to a prominent infectious diseases doctor. Paul Tambyah, senior consultant at the National University of Singapore and.... |
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HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Baring Private Equity Asia and CITIC Capital have sold the China business of Wall Street English (WSE) at a deep discount in just over two years since acquiring it as the COVID-19 pandemic crippled the global language tutoring group, sources told Reuters. |
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An increasingly common mutation of the coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious but appears less deadly, according to a prominent infectious diseases doctor. Dr Paul Tambyah said most viruses tend to become less virulent as they mutate. |
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia posted its biggest trade surplus since 2011 in July, more than expected, as exports improved while domestic demand for imports remained subdued due to the coronavirus outbreak, data from the statistics bureau showed on Tuesday. Southeast Asia's largest economy posted a $3. |
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Pakistani television series centered on the premise of two women fighting over a man have not only become popular at home but have gained a large following elsewhere in South Asia and in the Middle East. It would be a disservice to say they are bad. If they were, they wouldn’t garner such a following. |
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Pakistani television series centered on the premise of two women fighting over a man have not only become popular at home but have gained a large following elsewhere in South Asia and in the Middle East. It would be a disservice to say they are bad. If they were, they wouldn’t garner such a following. |
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KUALA LUMPUR (SIN CHEW DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Speaking as an academic and using nothing but cold, hard facts, it is my opinion that only Dr Mahathir wears the mantle of fire that can win back the country for Malaysian. This article is NOT about if he, Dr Mahathir, will make a good Prime Minister.... |
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JAKARTA (REUTERS) - Indonesia posted its biggest trade surplus since 2011 in July, more than expected, as exports improved while domestic demand for imports remained subdued due to the coronavirus outbreak , data from the statistics bureau showed on Tuesday (Aug 18). Southeast Asia's largest economy posted a US$3. |
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As the first new energy vehicle brand to collaborate with Givaudan, HiPhi is excited to be working with such a fine fragrance company to jointly develop innovative new products through the use of new ingredients and technical innovations that are catalysing the future of fragrance creation. |
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SINGAPORE Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Grant Thornton Cyprus, one of the world's largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms, is partnering with the world-leading enterprise friendly public blockchain VeChain. |
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, the global leader in low-code application development, today announced it has named Patrick Jean as Chief Technology Officer and June Duchesne as General Counsel. Jean and Duchesne will play crucial roles in OutSystems rapid growth and expanding ecosystem. |
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