By Rhany Chairunissa Rufinaldo Health authorities in Southeast Asian countries Friday confirmed more coronavirus cases and deaths. The death toll in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) now stands at 7,990, with 96 new fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. |
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Businesses are progressively becoming confident of a comeback from the brutal blow dealt by the global coronavirus pandemic, found a recent survey. Conducted by the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) in collaboration with The Asia Foundation among 303 firms representing manufacturing.... |
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On August 6, the blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis published a report that analyzes cryptocurrency trends across various regions worldwide. As far as numbers are concerned. As far as the trend from professional investors to institutional, Chainalysis notes that North America superseded East Asia for the second time in March. |
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(AGENPARL) – MANILA (PHILIPPINES), sab 08 agosto 2020 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today signed an agreement to strengthen disaster recovery capacity in selected countries across Asia and the Pacific. |
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By Khor Ho Ee and Rolf Strauch. SINGAPORE/LUXEMBOURG CITY — COVID-19 has claimed more than 700,000 lives, infected over 19 million people, and decimated rich and poor economies alike. But, even as most of the world faces unprecedented recession, policy responses differ sharply. The contrast between Europe and Asia is a case in point. |
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The first poll to be conducted in South Asia amidst a global pandemic is testimony to the organisational skills of the Election Commission which was assisted by numerous others like Government officials, police and, this time, the health sector too. Their efforts and repeated assurances of safety.... |
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Born in Germany, but raised and educated in Iran, Greece, India, Sri Lanka and the UK, Sebastian Posingis has had a decades-long association with this country. The first years of his career were spent photographing across Asia, for travel magazines and guidebooks, and for wildlife and nature stock libraries. |
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Indonesian sovereign debt beat all but two of its global peers in July, as a search for yield trumped concerns about the nation’s debt monetisation plan. Rupiah securities gained 2.8% last month, the best performance after Slovenian and Peruvian debt among 47 markets tracked by Bloomberg. |
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the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani woman who had spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy. Following her acquittal, extremist groups across Pakistan, including the prominent Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), violently
to the U.S., Canada, and the U. |
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WASHINGTON Asia shares were poised to open higher on Friday, tracking global equity markets’ overnight gains as investors awaited a U.S. nonfarm payrolls report. Hong Kong futures were up 0.23% and Nikkei futures were trading above the Nikkei 225 index’s previous close, pointing to an opening advance of 0. |
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Staff Correspondent 9 August, 2020 12:00 AM
The confidence level of the business community has improved in July-September quarter compared to the business outlook perceived during the April-June period, according to a survey conducted by the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM). |
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TOKYO -- Japan, the U.S., European countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will join forces for a digital defense exercise, set to take place as early as this autumn, to prepare for possible cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, Nikkei has learned. |
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Asian shares mostly fell on Friday in lackluster trading, as trade tensions between the US and China overshadowed optimism about more fiscal stimulus for the ailing US economy. Investors were also awaiting a US report on jobs later on Friday for another gauge of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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A database on biodiversity in Taiwan has compiled records of almost 10 million wildlife sightings, making it the second-largest wildlife index in Asia, with the vast majority of data coming from volunteers, the Council of Agriculture’s Endemic Species Research Institute said. |
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This episode of World Today Explainer focuses on how cartographic changes have become a new diplomatic tool for countries in South Asia to take on India, the newest being Pakistan. But where are they learning these tactics from? On August 4, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan unveiled a new.... |
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A day after the plane crash at Kozhikode airport in Kerala that left 18 people dead, there was scare and chaos at Birsa Munda Airport (BMA) in Ranchi on Saturday after a Mumbai-bound Air Asia flight (I5 632) had to abort take-off after suffering a bird hit and the aircraft had to be grounded after another failed take-off. |
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A Uyghur man who recorded and shared a video of himself in a Chinese detention facility has disappeared, along with his Uyghur aunt, the man's uncle told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Thursday. |
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How do you reconcile having the highest literacy rate in Asia, to being the poorest in reading comprehension? Yes, that’s us. And to the government’s credit, the Philippines asked to be tested under the United Nations Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). |
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Global HbA1c testing market is set to witness a healthy CAGR of 10.25% in the forecast period of 2019- 2026. The report contains data of the base year 2018 and historic year 2017. Increasing diabetes and rising health awareness among population is the factor for the growth of this market. |
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A boy looks on as health workers screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a residential building in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. As India hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, crossing 2 million cases and more than 41,000.... |
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A few hundred years ago, the bubonic plague also known as the Black Death devastated Europe by killing almost one-third of the population of the continent. The disease that originated in Asia traveled to Italy during the Middle Ages and continued to spread. |
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s Secretariat held a virtual ceremony on August 8 to mark the bloc’s 53rd founding anniversary under the theme “ASEAN 53: A Cohesive Journey to Recovery”. Opening the event, ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi said that under Vietnam’s strong.... |
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan. Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to rise in Eurasian and Central Asian countries on Saturday. Ukraine. Ukraine registered a record 1,489 more COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing its tally to 79,750. The figure includes 5,582 children and 9,150 health workers. |
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Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young declared New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, which contains the national capital Canberra, coronavirus hot spots on Saturday as the southern border closed for the second time since the coronavirus crisis began. |
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Some are the key & emerging players that are part of coverage and were profiled in current version are Illinois Lock Company, ASSA ABLOY, Lowe & Fletcher Group, Godrej Industries Limited, Master Lock Company LLC, Be-Tech Asia Limited, Häfele, SUGATSUNE KOGYO CO.,LTD., Vijayan Lock Works, Craftmaster Hardware, LLC, Rockler Companies, Inc. |
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