SINGAPORE, NETRALNEWS.COM - Citi announced that it has raised USD 1 million in Asia Pacific in an effort to support the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to address COVID-19 challenges across the region. The fund-raising was a joint effort by several Markets and Securities Services.... |
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BERLIN, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Daimler Buses expanded its southeast Asia business and would start selling chassis by Mercedes-Benz in Vietnam, the German carmaker announced on Wednesday. The buses sold in Vietnam would be adapted to local conditions and use chassis produced in a Mercedes-Benz plant in.... |
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Indian banks, including State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and ICICI Bank, have established a presence in mainland China Shanghai and Beijing in line with a rise in bilateral trade and investments. At Hong Kong, an important financial centre in Asia, Indian banks have had business operations for decades. |
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Abraham Denmark, Asia Program Director: "This will likely be a watershed moment in India-China relations and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific. We’ve already seen the deadliest clash on the China-India border in over 50 years, both countries are led by men who have embraced nationalism, and both.... |
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Pakistan is understating its rate of infections and the death toll from the coronavirus, the head of a government task force said, as the country becomes a hot spot for the pandemic in South Asia. "The actual numbers will be two to three times more than what the government is reporting,” Atta ur.... |
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Research and Markets Logo. With the standardization of MCX (Mission-Critical PTT, Video & Data), IOPS (Isolated Operation for Public Safety), HPUE (High-Power User Equipment) and other critical communications features by the 3GPP, LTE and 5G NR (New Radio) networks are increasingly gaining.... |
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By Herbert Lash. A gauge of global equities edged higher on Wednesday, adding to the prior day's rally on economic and vaccine hopes, while fresh coronavirus outbreaks and rising geopolitical tensions in Asia boosted demand for the dollar and safe-haven debt. |
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As Indonesian authorities look to ease coronavirus restrictions, doctors are warning that children seem particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 in South-East Asia's most populous country. Key points: A peak paediatrician body found 160 children with suspected COVID-19 had died; Poor nutrition can lead.... |
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As Indonesian authorities look to ease coronavirus restrictions, doctors are warning that children seem particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 in South-East Asia's most populous country. Key points: A peak paediatrician body found 160 children with suspected COVID-19 had died; Poor nutrition can lead.... |
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Multi-territory streaming platform , and regional pay-TV operator HBO Asia Monday begin airing a second localized season of Endemol Shine Group’s crime series “ The Bridge .” The show is a co-produced Asian adaptation of Nordic noir “The Bridge” (aka “Bron,” aka “Broen”). |
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As the COVID-19 pandemic spread from Asia to the rest of the world at the beginning of 2020, global venture capital (VC) funding dropped dramatically—by about 20% since December 2019 according to Startup Genome.[1] While the longer-term effects of the pandemic on startups’ ability to raise money.... |
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AWARE was sent for evaluation to the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Pilot. As stated by the EC, the EIC Accelerator Pilot offers Europe's brightest and boldest entrepreneurs the chance to step forward and request funding for breakthrough ideas with the potential to create entirely new markets or revolutionize existing ones. |
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Early May saw a new aggravation of the border conflict between India and China, this time in Ladakh. The withdrawal of extra contingents, which had been brought to the border during a few weeks of the confrontation, began only on June 10 th , following a series of online and offline meetings of military representatives of the two countries. |
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China and India have a history of border disputes with each other.In 1962, both countries found themselves in war over fringe of Aksai Chin. Later in 1967 pressures raised as a result of Nathu La and Cho La military conflicts at the Himalayan border. Similar incident occurred which almost looked like a military stalemate in 2017 at Doklam. |
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Asia Today: Beijing adds more measures to curb new outbreak |
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Central Asian independence thirty years ago spawned enormous anxiety among observers who foresaw cascading threats of Islamic terrorism, internecine war, ethnic conflicts within or between these states, or violence between Russian settlers and their new governments. This so called “ discourse of danger” continues to be pervasive. |
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Radio has become the most popular and effective medium for information dissemination to a larger audience in Nepal (Sharecast, 2018). Use of radio by several humanitarian agencies in Nepal for general and behavioural change messaging substantiates the aforementioned statement. |
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German drug and agrochemicals major Bayer on Wednesday said it will support four lakh smallholder farmers across 17 states in India through its new global initiative ‘Better Farms, Better Lives’. Through this initiative, Bayer will support 20 lakh smallholder farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin.... |
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Global brokerage and research firm Morgan Stanley has picked a handful of Indian stocks in the post coronavirus world, despite being overall bullish on developed markets instead of emerging ones such as India. Morgan Stanley in its Asia EM Equity Strategy Mid-Year Outlook, under various screeners,.... |
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Kakitangan kesihatan melakukan ujian saringan di Jakarta. (Gambar AP) JAKARTA: Indonesia melaporkan 1,031 kes baru Covid-19 pada Rabu, menjadikan keseluruhannya 41,431 kes yang mengatasi Singapura dengan jumlah kes tertinggi di Asia Tenggara. Pegawai Kementerian Kesihatan, Achmad Yurianto berkata 45.... |
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Ports in southeast Asia need to upgrade their terminal capacity in order to handle the expected shift in sourcing away from China that is being triggered by COVID-19 supply chain disruptions.
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FOSHAN, China June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited ("Bright Scholar" or the "Company") (NYSE:BEDU), a global premier education service company, today hosted an online press conference to announce the launch of its virtual "Future Global School" (the "School"), an.... |
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BANGKOK June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) today approved five large-scale projects with a total investment value of 41.8 billion baht US$1.35 billion ) and measures to strengthen the country's agricultural sector and agro-industry in line with the BCG (Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, and Green Economy) model. |
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SEOUL, South Korea June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoLAB Convergence Inc. ( http://www.neolab.net/ ), developer of the award-winning Neo smartpen ( http://www.neosmartpen.com/ ), today released a new recording device named 'RECO', which is used in conjunction with Neo smartpen, through Kickstarter.... |
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GUANGZHOU, China June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The 127th and the first-ever digital China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) has gathered nearly 26,000 companies, with China's Premier Li Keqiang attending the virtual opening ceremony and touring the online exhibition halls. |
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