SINGAPORE Aug. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Guardant Health's liquid biopsy, Guardant360 CDx, for tumor mutation profiling in patients across all solid cancers. For Guardant Health Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), this FDA approval represents a landmark achievement of the Guardant360 test. |
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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 deaths, community.... |
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Australian state of Victoria recorded 466 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, including another man in his 30s. The figures were released as the city of Melbourne remained in lockdown and under an overnight curfew. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said that six of the.... |
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Asia Today: Australian state records 466 cases, 12 deaths |
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As many as 10 million people out of Vietnam’s 76.8 million smartphone users have downloaded a domestically developed contact-tracing mobile app to identify and alert people who have interacted with COVID-19 patients, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC). |
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - The Philippines has become a COVID-19 outlier in East Asia with a runaway caseload because initial stay-home orders ended early and people struggle to practice social distancing despite strict rules, local observers say. New reported cases spiked during the past month, leaving the.... |
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Nations will go to war if peaceful dialogue brings insignificant outcomes. This is very apt for the nations that yearn to be superpowers. It is not for the first time in history that two major neighbouring countries in Asia, China and India, have engaged in a standoff in the shape of the “Ladakh.... |
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The Report has been achieved through in-depth analysis of market dynamics across five regions including North America, Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. The segmentation of Mobile Network Link Equipment market by component, end-user, and region was carried out based on.... |
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Scientists at the University of Iowa have identified a link between hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and a climate system in East Asia. The study may provide new insight into how tropical cyclones develop that can strengthen into The researchers explained that the East Asian Subtropical Jet Stream.... |
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The United Nations has commended Thailand and other governments in the ASEAN for acting swiftly in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. Robust regional cooperation, coordinated by ASEAN, has also resulted in South-East Asia reporting significantly lower confirmed COVID-19 cases and related deaths compared to most other global regions. |
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With its narrow streets, congested housing, underfunded health care and poor sanitation, many thought India's largest slum would be devastated by COVID-19. In fact, Dharavi — located in India's financial capital Mumbai — was often heralded as a prime example of why the country was ill-prepared to deal with the coronavirus. |
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - The Philippines has become a COVID-19 outlier in East Asia with a runaway caseload because initial stay-home orders ended early and people struggle to practice social distancing despite strict rules, local observers say. New reported cases spiked during the past month, leaving the.... |
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Singapore. SINGAPORE'S small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to expand overseas should consider the opportunities in South Asia, specifically the Uttar Pradesh state of India, leaders from the local Indian business community said in a webinar on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh... |
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Singapore. ASIA markets fell on Friday following a knee-jerk reaction towards President Donald Trump's executive orders to ban United States transactions with China's tech giant Tencent and ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok. The move, which came shortly after the... |
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Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices jumped to a more than four-month high this week, tracking firmer gas prices in Europe and the United States, and as major cities in North Asia face warmer-than-usual weather potentially boosting demand. The average LNG price for September delivery into northeast Asia LNG-AS was estimated at about $3. |
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0225 GMT: Crude oil futures were marginally higher in mid-morning Asian trade Aug. 7 as optimism over a better-than-expected US jobs report and pledged compensation cuts by Iraq buoyed the market despite the growing COVID-19 case counts worldwide. At 10:25 am Singapore time (0225 GMT), the ICE Brent October crude futures was up 6 cents/b (0. |
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Kenya is one of the countries in Africa that will be part of a submarine fibre optic cable linking the continent with Asia and Europe that is fronted by Chinese firms.
The 511km Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe (Peace) cable network connects Kenya to Pakistan, Djibouti and Europe through an entry point in Nyali, Mombasa. |
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SHENZHEN, China Aug. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ATIF, the "Company"), a company providing business consulting services and multimedia services in Asia , today announced that it received a written notice (the "Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department of The.... |
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SHENZHEN, China Aug. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ATIF , the "Company"), a company providing business consulting services and multimedia services in Asia , today announced that it received a written notice (the "Notice") from the Listing Qualifications Department of The.... |
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The recovery of the mobility business of Uber has been led by Asia, excluding India, said the ride-hailing giant’s chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi. “Our mobility business, I would describe as a tale of 10,000 cities. Our mobility recovery is clearly dependent on the public health situation in any given area. |
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Summary: This paper estimates the extent and speed of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) in seven Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries using monthly data over the January 1995–May 2020 period. The estimations are performed using the local projections method. |
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The Philippines said Friday it had received samples of the Japan-developed anti-viral drug Avigan and could soon begin clinical trials on COVID-19 patients in the country, which now has the highest number of cases in East Asia. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told a virtual news.... |
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A new World Bank report presents data about infrastructure provision in three key sectors is Asia: road transport, electricity, and water and sanitation. As the first comprehensive, regional stock-taking of levels of supply, quality, and affordability of infrastructure services, Infrastructure in.... |
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The Report was produced through an in-depth analysis of market dynamics in five regions, including North America, Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The segmentation of Large volume portable injectors market by components, end users and region was carried out on the.... |
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SINGAPORE Aug. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Guardant Health's liquid biopsy, Guardant360 CDx, for tumor mutation profiling in patients across all solid cancers. For Guardant Health Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), this FDA approval represents a landmark achievement for the Guardant360 test. |
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