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As Germany unveiled plans for a return to near-normality -- including a May 15 restart of the Bundesliga -- the European Union forecast a historic recession on the virus-battered continent. Countries in Asia joined Europe in easing the lockdowns that have kept swathes of humanity indoors for weeks.... |
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Asian markets dropped Thursday as the economic reality of the coronavirus crisis became even starker, and China-US relations soured, overshadowing recent optimism over the easing of lockdown measures. With countries from Asia-Pacific to Europe and US states reopening their shattered economies,.... |
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By Joshua Lipes 2020-05-06 -- China's foreign policy has increasingly weakened democratic institutions in at least 20 countries throughout Central Europe and Central Asia, weakening oversight and bolstering the power of authoritarian leaders, a new U.S. think tank report said Wednesday. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after a decline on Wall Street after more depressing data rolled in on the devastation sweeping the global economy. Comments by President Donald Trump on trade with China and casting blame on Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic have further dampened sentiment. |
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TOKYO -- Asian shares were mixed Thursday after a decline on Wall Street after more depressing data rolled in on the devastation sweeping the global economy. Comments by President Donald Trump on trade with China and casting blame on Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic have further dampened sentiment. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after a decline on Wall Street after more depressing data rolled in on the devastation sweeping the global economy. Comments by President Donald Trump on trade with China and casting blame on Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic have further dampened sentiment. |
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The loans are meant to stabilize small businesses and are forgivable by the government if the majority of the funds go toward payroll. The government distributed $342.3 billion in loans in the first round of the program, which ended in mid-April. It has distributed $183.5 billion in loans in a second round as of Wednesday evening. |
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BEIJING--China's exports unexpectedly rose in April, mainly due to increased shipments to southeast Asia and countries in Beijing's One Belt One Road program. Exports rose 3.5% in April from a year earlier, after falling 6.6% in March, data from the General Administration of Customs showed Thursday. |
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offers 30 movies a month, keeping their roster fresh by premiering a new pick via “Film of the Day.” You get various genres like explorations into Indian cinema, the best of ’90s German film, the landmark features from Latin America, and picks from Asia along with early post-war masterpieces. |
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By YURI KAGEYAMA. TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after a decline on Wall Street after more depressing data rolled in on the devastation sweeping the global economy. Comments by President Donald Trump on trade with China and casting blame on Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic have further dampened sentiment. |
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(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are mostly lower on Thursday after a fall in commodity prices overnight and as investors digested dismal economic data that reflected the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Data showing that U.S. private sector employment nosedived last month and China's service.... |
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The news helped regional market steady after a shaky start and MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was back to near flat. Japan's Nikkei was off a slim 0.2% while South Korea added 0.2%. Chinese blue chips were just a fraction lower, while E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 ESc1 bounced 0. |
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E-mini futures for the S&P 500 ESc1 fell 0.28%. Japan's Nikkei 225 futures NKc1 fell 0.23% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures HSIc1 lost 0.76%. Oil, which had rallied for a week as economies slowly reopened, dropped as much as 4% on Wednesday after U.S. |
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An employee of a foreign exchange trading company uses a smartphone in front of a monitor showing the Japanese yen's exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, in Tokyo December 3, 2013. Asian shares eased and the dollar firmed on Tuesday as unexpectedly strong U.S. |
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Creative cooks: Asian street food chefs fight lockdown slowdown =(Video+Picture)= Singapore, May 7, 2020 (AFP) - From Facebook groups to hyper-local delivery services, Southeast Asia's street food chefs are cooking up creative ways to sell their wares as they struggle to survive during the coronavirus pandemic. |
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One of Nigeria’s biggest female voices Waje has some good news coming in from her camp. The respected songstress has secured a music distribution deal for herself. The “Red Velvet” album released by Waje last year would be distributed across Asia on 15th May 2020 Exclusively by VerseOne Distribution @verseonedistro. |
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Highlights. UNICEF works for children and adolescents in 22 countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia Region (ECAR). UNICEF is also present in Italy, supporting refugee and migrant populations. With Tajikistan declaring cases (230 confirmed, 3 deaths) of COVID-19 this week, Turkmenistan.... |
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PHILADELPHIA May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE American: FAX)  held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on May 6 , 2020. At the Meeting, shareholders of the Fund voted to re-elect one Class II Director and one Preferred Share.... |
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By Nichola Saminather. Manulife Financial Corp reported a 34% drop in first-quarter core earnings on Wednesday, missing analyst expectations, on unfavorable market conditions and lower sales in Japan that weighed on earnings from Asia. While net income attributable to shareholders was helped by.... |
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Kazakhstan was the first country in Central Asia to enact a state of emergency, effective March 16, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was followed, on March 25, by Kyrgyzstan; while the other three regional states—Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan—have yet to move in the same direction. |
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is an international affairs expert widely published on issues related to Eurasian politics, with a special focus on Central Asia. More information about him can be found on his personal website gevoloshin.com.
On March 19, 2019, Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned as president of Kazakhstan and was.... |
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Kazakhstan was the first country in Central Asia to enact a state of emergency, effective March 16, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was followed, on March 25, by Kyrgyzstan; while the other three regional states—Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan—have yet to move in the same direction. |
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(NYSE American: FAX) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on May 6 , 2020. At the Meeting, shareholders of the Fund voted to re-elect one Class II Director and one Preferred Share Director to the Board of Directors and to approve the continuation of the term of one Director under the Fund's Corporate Governance Policies. |
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(NYSE American: FAX) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on May 6 , 2020. At the Meeting, shareholders of the Fund voted to re-elect one Class II Director and one Preferred Share Director to the Board of Directors and to approve the continuation of the term of one Director under the Fund's Corporate Governance Policies. |
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Snakebite is one of the world's biggest hidden health problems with up to 138 000 victims dying every year, and around 400 000 victims left with permanent physical disabilities or disfigurements. Those most affected live in some of the world's poorest communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and.... |
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