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MANILA, Philippines As organizations prepare to return to the office amid an easing of lockdown restrictions across Asia Pacific, many are considering how their corporate real estate portfolios should look in the‘next normal’. According to a survey by real estate advisory firm JLL, more than 80.... |
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Environmental activist Gary Stokes collected dozens of discarded masks from a Hong Kong beach in February. (Oceans Asia) When he stepped onto a beach on Hong Kong’s uninhabited Soko Islands, Gary Stokes was surprised to find — amid the discarded water bottles, shopping bags and usual piles of plastic waste — a new type of garbage washing ashore. |
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Since late-2018, brick kilns have become a focal point for Cambodia’s ongoing problem with child labour, an issue that saw the Kingdom ranked 28th in the world and the highest risk country in Southeast Asia by the recently released 2020 Child Labour Index. |
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“It is our duty to stand up with others to fight for justice,” said Gurjiv Kaur, a graduating senior at the University of California, Irvine. “Langar at its core is a revolution — against inequality and the caste system,” the antiquated hereditary class structure in South Asia, which Sikhism has always rejected. |
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The non-oil bilateral trade between the UAE and India surged 15.3 per cent to $41.4 billion (Dh151.6 billion) in 2019, firmly positioning the third Asian economy as the second largest trading partner of the Emirates, which recorded an overall 4,4 per cent jump in its global non-oil trade to Dh1.603 trillion last year. |
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By Pushpa Raj Pradhan. A dramatic twist has been witnessed in the South Asian regional affairs after Pakistani Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa made an unannounced visit to Kabul to discuss on the Afghan peace process with the Afghan leaders last week. |
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The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has raised its concern regarding the management of Nepali migrant workers returning from India. Inadequate quarantine facilities and mismanagement of Nepal’s migrant workers returning from India could lead to a human rights crisis, the organisation has warned. |
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British supercar maker expands its business with the launch of the DBX, a family car alternative for fans of Aston Martin.
Aston Martin Bangkok, another importer of fancy cars from Europe overseen by MGC Asia, has launched another model lineup in the form of the ever-popular SUV. |
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Tanzania has now set its target on China as a new and emerging lucrative tourists market in South East Asia after the traditional tourist market sources of Europe, North America and South Africa. This follows a visit by a team of senior officials from Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), Ministry of.... |
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TEHRAN - Peyman Fakhri, Director of the National Teams' Monitoring Center, has said Iran will send 10 teams to the 2020 Asian Beach Games. Head of Iran National Olympic Committee Reza Salehi Amiri also participated in a session to talk about the Iranian teams’ preparation for the Sanya Games. |
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LAHORE: If the men’s Asia Cup goes ahead this year, it will likely take place in Sri Lanka. The hope is that the tournament will be played in September.Although it is technically Pakistan’s turn to host the Asia Cup this year, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) offered Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to swap.... |
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UPDATE 4-Beijing district in 'wartime emergency' after virus cluster at major food market. Contributed by NAMPA / Reuters. * Beijing's Fengtai district locks down 11 neighbourhoods * Xinfadi, said to be Asia's biggest wholesale food market, closed * Beijing halts tourists from other parts of China,.... |
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"The whole spirit behind this is that it is very much a template on how to help other people have these conversations," said Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, one of the project administrators who translated the letter into Persian. "We really encourage translators to make it meaningful for their community. |
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Four teams from India have won awards in the Virtual Shell Eco-Marathon Asia Off-Track Awards. This includes Team Eco Titans from VIT University, Team Pravega from the Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Team DTU E-Supermileage from the Delhi Technological University, and Team Inferno from the Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology. |
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MANILA The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday reported 116 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) recoveries among Filipinos in the Americas and the Asia Pacific, bringing the number of recovered patients to 2,485. "This one spike in reported recoveries brings the total number of.... |
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BEIJING LOCKS DOWN COMMUNITIES: The Chinese capital has locked down 11 residential communities near a wholesale food market to try to stem a new outbreak of COVID-19. Beijing officials said Saturday that 45 workers at the Xinfadi market tested positive for the coronavirus, though they showed no symptoms. |
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Kerala puts Covid-19 rider for chartered flights from West Asia for expats Kerala fights against Covid-19 has turned uphill after return of expats and those from other states in the country led to a spike in new cases over the past few weeks. india Updated: Jun 13, 2020 15:28 IST.
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The global hotel industry is pinning its survival on the staycation. Millions of them. From Asia to Europe to America, people have been cooped up for months. Now, as lockdowns loosen, the shellshocked are emerging. Those with means desperately want to get away, but fear of the coronavirus remains very real. |
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing closed the city’s largest wholesale food market Saturday after the discovery of seven cases of the new coronavirus in the previous two days. The Xinfadi market, which has 4,000 tenants, will be disinfected after workers tested positive and the virus was found in the environment, the official Xinhua News Agency said. |
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing closed the city’s largest wholesale food market Saturday after the discovery of seven cases of the new coronavirus in the previous two days. The Xinfadi market, which has 4,000 tenants, will be disinfected after workers tested positive and the virus was found in the environment, the official Xinhua News Agency said. |
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BEIJING – Beijing closed the city’s largest wholesale food market Saturday after the discovery of seven cases of the new coronavirus in the previous two days. The Xinfadi market, which has 4,000 tenants, will be disinfected after workers tested positive and the virus was found in the environment, the official Xinhua News Agency said. |
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing closed the city’s largest wholesale food market Saturday after the discovery of seven cases of the new coronavirus in the previous two days. The Xinfadi market, which has 4,000 tenants, will be disinfected after workers tested positive and the virus was found in the environment, the official Xinhua News Agency said. |
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A relief flight of Air Asia Philippines carrying a total of 150 Myanmar nationals stranded in the Philippines landed at the Yangon International Airport yesterday evening. Of them, 129 are seamen onboard the cruise ship of Carnival Cruise Line Co., Ltd. In Manila Bay and 21 are those who were stranded in the country. |
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has reported 49 new cases of COVID-19, most of them in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where health authorities have been struggling to slow transmissions linked to entertainment and leisure activities, church gatherings and low-income workers who couldn’t afford to stay home. |
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Waiting for high quality capital flow. According to Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) together with EVIPA will help affirm the important geopolitical role and position of Vietnam in Southeast Asia as well as in the Asia – Pacific region. |
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