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Private equity major KKR has agreed to buy 2.32% stake in Reliance Industries’ wholly owned digital subsidiary Jio Platforms Ltd. for ₹11,367 crore, making it KKR’s largest investment in Asia. With this transaction, Jio Platforms assumes an equity value of ₹4.91 lakh crore and an enterprise value of ₹5. |
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America on Friday, bringing a surge of new infections and deaths, even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. The region's two largest nations — Mexico and Brazil — reported.... |
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AT least 106 people died in the fiercest cyclone to hit Bangladesh and eastern India since 1999, officials said Friday as aerial footage revealed immense flooding in coastal areas. Amphan, only the second “super cyclone” ever recorded over the Bay of Bengal, bulldozed houses, tore off roofs,.... |
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. Many governments — even those where the virus is still on the rise — say they.... |
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People are seen wearing masks as they go shopping at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur, May 17, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon. ISLAMABAD, May 22 — Muslims across Asia have packed out markets as they prepare for the annual Eid al-Fitr holiday, ignoring coronavirus guidelines even as infections rise. |
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. Many governments — even those where the virus is still on the rise — say they.... |
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NEW DELHI - The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. Many governments say they have to shift their focus to saving jobs that are vanishing as quickly as the virus can spread. |
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Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI. Headline: ASIA/MYANMAR – Condition of the Rohingya: the Burmese government in the Hague. Yangon – On Saturday 23 May the Burmese government must present its first report on the condition of the Muslim minority of the Rohingya in Myanmar, in compliance with a sentence.... |
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By LORI HINNANT, SHEIKH SAALIQ and DAVID BILLER, Associated Press. NEW DELHI The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. |
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NEW DELHI -- The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. Many governments — even those where the virus is still on the rise — say they have.... |
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Turkey desires to increase political contacts and consultations with Asian countries, a senior official of Turkey's ruling party said on Friday. Cevdet Yilmaz, Justice and Development (AK) Party's deputy chairman for foreign affairs, attended an exclusive video.... |
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NEW DELHI - The coronavirus pandemic accelerated across Latin America, Russia and the Indian subcontinent on Friday even as curves flattened and reopening was underway in much of Europe, Asia and the United States. Many governments — even those where the virus is still on the rise — say they have to.... |
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PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez confirmed the crash and added that PK 8303 was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi.
The districts that are facing a complete internet shutdown are Hapur,.... |
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In January, before social distancing began in earnest in Singapore and most business continuity plans had yet to move into full swing, poultry company Kee Song was already on the alert for Covid-19. It began splitting the 250 workers at its slaughterhouse and poultry processing plant in Singapore.... |
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DAMAGE. People and police personnel gather around a tree that fell on electric lines on a street after the landfall of cyclone Amphan in Kolkata on May 21, 2020. Photo from STR/AFP. KOLKATA, India – At least 106 people died in the fiercest cyclone to hit Bangladesh and eastern India since 1999,.... |
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Iskander Akylbayev , Executive Director, Kazakhstan Council on International Relations Shairbek Juraev , Co-founder and Director, Crossroads Central Asia; Research Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews Marlene Laurelle , Director, Institute for European, Russian and.... |
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"We are proud of achieving record results in gross billing, revenue, gross profit, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted net income in this quarter compared to any other first quarters in our company's history despite facing massive challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic," said Jian "T.J." Tang, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iClick. |
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NEW DELHI, India May 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- COVID-19 has led to the closure of schools across the globe. In the absence of classrooms, education worldwide has drastically changed. There has been a distinctive rise of e-learning initiatives, where teaching is being undertaken via digital platforms. |
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SHANGHAI May 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Trip.com Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: TCOM), a leading one-stop travel service provider of accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management, will announce its first quarter of 2020 results on Thursday, May 28, 2020, U.S. Time, after the market closes. |
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Background: Hyoscyamus niger L. (Solanaceae) generally known as henbane, is commonly distributed in Europe and Asia. In Turkey, henbane seeds have been used in folk medicine to remove worms from the eyes. The present study aimed to investigate the insecticidal activity of H. niger seeds. |
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Mountain-basin systems (MBS) in Central Asia are unique and complex ecosystems, wherein their elevation gradients lead to high spatial heterogeneity in vegetation and its response to climate change. Exploring elevation-dependent vegetation greenness variation and the effects of climate factors on.... |
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At least 106 people died in the fiercest cyclone to hit Bangladesh and eastern India since 1999, officials said Friday as aerial footage revealed immense flooding in coastal areas. Amphan, only the second "super cyclone" ever recorded over the Bay of Bengal, bulldozed houses, tore off roofs,.... |
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MANILA The overall tally of overseas Filipinos with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) abroad has reached 2,504 after 43 more confirmed cases were reported on Friday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Of the total confirmed cases, five new recoveries were recorded in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East. |
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File Photo. A news editor in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Southeast Asia has been jailed for two years after his agency reported a coronavirus death that turned out to be an error (false), his lawyer said Friday. The country has only 199 confirmed cases of coronavirus and seen six deaths,.... |
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The journal, The Portuguese Language in the Orient (Orientes do Portugues) , the first ever Portuguese academic periodical in Asia, has hit the shelf; the periodical is co-published by the Macao Polytechnic Institute and the University of Porto in Portugal. |
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