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A week after celebrating his 58th birthday on May 29, Singapore football legend Fandi Ahmad received a belated gift when he found out from his elder sister via text that he was named one of the Asian Football Confederation's Greatest Eredivisie Players in an online poll. |
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Photo taken on April 17, 2020 shows the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua) Growth in East Asia and Pacific is projected to fall to 0.5 percent in 2020, the only region that could see growth this year, the report says. The Chinese economy is expected to grow by 1 percent this year. |
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Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing 25 years of normalized relations between the United States and Vietnam. |
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Steeping up its efforts to bring home its natives, stranded in places that do not have rail connectivity, the Odisha government airlifted 180 migrant workers from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands on Monday. The migrant workers flew from the Port Blair airport by a special Air Asia flight that landed at.... |
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Traffic jams are on the way back in Indonesia's capital as Jakarta starts reopening after weeks of lockdown. But healthcare workers worry the relaxation of restrictions is too soon for Southeast Asia's largest city. Al Jazeera's Jessica Washington reports. |
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The head of the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus pandemic is worsening globally, even as the situation in Europe is improving. At a press briefing on Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that about 75% of cases reported to the U.N. health agency on Sunday came from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia. |
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Stepping up its effort to bring home its natives stranded in places having no rail connectivity, the Odisha government airlifted 180 migrant workers from Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday. The migrant workers flew from the Port Blair airport by a special flight of Air Asia and landed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in the city. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Short sellers across Asia are being drawn to the health care sector, betting the region’s best-performing industry this year is poised for a retreat. The daily average amount of short interest among 324 biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks across Asia’s major equity benchmarks has.... |
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"I was not sure what happened," he told the Nikkei Asian Review by phone in late May. He was speaking from the Singapore Expo, a huge exhibition hall converted into a temporary coronavirus care facility. The man is one of over 35,000 migrant workers in Singapore who have been infected. |
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The head of the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus pandemic is worsening globally, even as the situation in Europe is improving. At a press briefing on Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that about 75% of cases reported to the U.N. health agency on Sunday came from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia. |
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SLOWLY RECOVERING A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea on Monday. Crude oil prices rose after major oil producing nations agreed to extend a production cut of nearly 10 million barrels of oil a day through the.... |
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The Europe Polymeric Sand Market holds substantial share owing to initiatives taken by governments of European countries to improve their existing transit infrastructures. Asia Pacific and Latin America will show decent growth rate with increasing product awareness. |
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Ten countries of South Asia, Middle East and Latin America have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases over the last couple of weeks, according to World Health Organization data. Coincidentally, in the past few months, the trend of a rise in cases were almost similar in eight of those countries --.... |
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DUBLIN June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Processed Cheese 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report looks at the Processed Cheese markets in the West and East Europe Middle East and North Africa Africa Asia Central Asia and Caucasus, Latin and North American regions. |
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Is the so-called "Islamic State" aiming to use the Philippines as its bridgehead in Asia? IS took control of the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi in 2017, and it took the Philippine army five months to take it back. |
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Source: GE GE to upgrade existing GT26HE MXL2 unit to latest GT26 HE technology improving plant output and efficiency; GE continues to help JFE Steel Corporation ensure a stable power supply for industrial demand in Japan; Chiba Power Plant project is the first GT26 HE upgrade in Asia Pacific region. |
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Pangalay, the pre-Islamic dance of the Sulu archipelago, is the Philippine link to the classical dances of Asia such as those in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia, notes scholar Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa in her new book about the dance she describes as having the richest movement vocabulary in the country. |
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A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands as others walk past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 11, 2020. Shares advanced Monday, June 8, 2020 in Asia, buoyed by surprisingly strong U.S. |
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In Washington, D.C., thousands staged what was the city's biggest Black Lives Matter demonstration yet on Saturday. Demonstrations also took place in Europe, Australia and throughout Asia. Protesters in Bristol, England, toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston, whose company transported tens of thousands of slaves between 1672 and 1689. |
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The start of the third decade of the 21st century was marked with reports of an outbreak of a virus in the world’s most populated country, China in Asia. The virus was said to be very contagious and people who got infected risked dying as reports of death kept increasing. |
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Export champion predicts multi-million losses next year due to Covid-19 uncertainty among students. Universities should brace themselves for a minimum shortfall of almost 500 million next year, in an optimistic scenario, as international students choose to stay at home, the British Council has warned. |
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By Caribbean News Global LONDON, England – The UK has put itself forward to become a Dialogue Partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The application, which would give the UK high-level access to ASEAN reinforced by deeper practical cooperation, alongside countries including.... |
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DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With the objective to support relief efforts resulting from the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mary Kay Asia Pacific announced it will donate and distribute critically needed hand sanitizer in the Asia Pacific region. |
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By Forrester Wave Tata Consultancy Services has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Internet of Things (IoT) Consultancies in Asia Pacific (APAC), Q2 2020. According to the report, TCS' key strengths are its deep technology expertise, broad IP portfolio, and excellent platform and.... |
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When Garrett Smith graduated from Stanford University to take a job with the drone startup Kespry , he’d not only wrapped up studying at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, but also had already completed several combat tours in Southeast Asia and South America with the Marine Corps. |
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