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MANILA, Philippines Without social aid, the economic slump from the coronavirus global pandemic would likely wipe out three decades of gains in fighting poverty, with nearly half of new poor people coming from East Asia and the Pacific, a new study showed. |
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PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia's coronavirus fatality rate is at 1.58 per cent, which is lower than the average of 4 per cent to 5 per cent in many other countries. Furthermore, about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of Covid-19 patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) have.... |
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By James Pearson. HANOI, April 10 (Reuters) - Vietnam is challenging China's dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a shipment of protective suits. |
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Pete Chareonwongsak, chief executive officer of Air Asia Group's logistic arm, Teleport. — Image courtesy of newsroom.airasia.com.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — AirAsia’s newly-launched Save Our Shops (SOS) campaign that helps merchant market their products online, has received an overwhelming response.... |
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Motorists, wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, ride on a bridge in Hanoi March 17, 2020. — AFP pic. HANOI, April 10 — Vietnam is challenging China’s dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and South-east Asia.... |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mixed on Friday in holiday-thinned trading despite the positive cues overnight from Wall Street as the Federal Reserve unveiled a $2.3 trillion program to support the U.S. economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Worries about the spread and the economic impact of the coronavirus weighed on sentiment. |
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Pete Chareonwongsak, chief executive officer of Air Asia Group's logistic arm, Teleport. — Image courtesy of newsroom.airasia.com.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — AirAsia’s newly-launched Save Our Shops (SOS) campaign that helps merchant market their products online, has received an overwhelming response.... |
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Nature, one of the world's top scientific journals, issued an editorial on Tuesday apologizing for associating the novel coronavirus with Wuhan and China in its news coverage. It also appealed for people to stop the stigma around the disease because it fuels racism and discrimination against Asian.... |
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Nature, one of the world’s top scientific journals, issued an editorial on Tuesday apologizing for associating the novel coronavirus with Wuhan and China in its news coverage. It also appealed for people to stop the stigma around the disease because it fuels racism and discrimination against Asian.... |
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's (AIIB) Board of Directors has approved a USD60-million loan to increase Oman's renewable power generation capacity and reduce the country's dependence on gas and other fossil fuels for electricity generation. This is AIIB's first nonsovereign-backed financing in the country's renewable energy sector. |
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MHI Vestas has appointed Masato Yamada as the Regional Manager Asia Pacific, to oversee the company's growth across the Asia Pacific region. He was formerly the company's Chief Strategy Officer based in Aarhus, Denmark, and will now be based in MHI Vestas' Tokyo office.
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ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is making available another $50 million to Pakistan to support the government’s efforts to fight the outbreak of novel coronavirus in the country. This amount has been repurposed from the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) project. |
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Four days into a national lockdown to stem the outbreak, the French government spokeswoman, Sibeth Ndiaye, warned that face masks were so unfamiliar that wearing them was too difficult technically and could even be “counterproductive.” Even Thursday morning, when asked whether she wore a mask or.... |
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Stocks in Asia were little changed in Friday afternoon trade, with major markets across the region closed for the Good Friday holiday. Japan's Nikkei 225 shed earlier gains as it declined 0.38% in afternoon trade while the Topix index dipped 0.5%. South Korea's added 0.33%. Meanwhile, mainland Chinese shares were lower by the afternoon. |
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SINGAPORE April 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI Schaefer, the global leader of warehouse and logistics solutions in cooperation with ORCA, a pioneering cold-chain solutions provider, announced the opening of the Philippines first world-class chain storage system. |
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Vietnam's measures against COVID-19 have been applauded by the international media as prompt, drastic and supported by people nationwide. Workers.org page of the US Workers World Party (WWP) on April 8 posted an article titled “How Vietnam contained the pandemic” saying that the coronavirus pandemic.... |
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Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India. The coronavirus was "taken a little more lightly" by western economies compared to those in Asia, says a former IMF chief economist. Raghuram Rajan said western economies are facing a drop in economic growth by as much as 6% this year. |
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SINGAPORE/SEOUL -- The coronavirus crisis has delayed elections worldwide, from Asia to Europe and the Americas. But two major Asian countries -- South Korea and Singapore -- are pressing ahead toward national polls. South Koreans are scheduled to choose National Assembly members next Wednesday. |
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Image copyright Getty Images. The coronavirus was "taken a little more lightly" by western economies compared to those in Asia, says a former IMF chief economist. Raghuram Rajan said western economies are facing a drop in economic growth by as much as 6% this year. |
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The coronavirus was "taken a little more lightly" by western economies compared to those in Asia, says a former IMF chief economist. Raghuram Rajan said western economies are facing a drop in economic growth by as much as 6% this year. The widespread closure of businesses is having a huge financial impact as governments prevent the virus spread. |
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The operator of the Asia America Gateway has notified local service providers that repairs on the disaster-prone cable would begin on April 17 and things are expected to return to normal by the 22nd. On April 2 the cable’s S1 branch connecting Vietnam and Hong Kong (China) experienced a technical problem, which slowed down traffic. |
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China has deployed a patrol vessel from its Coast Guard to the Scarborough Shoal, the latest salvo in its sustained pressure campaign against Philippine-claimed features in the disputed South China Sea, ship-tracking data shows. The China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 3302 was at Scarborough Shoal as of Wednesday, Radio Free Asia can confirm. |
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SONGDO, South Korea and SAN FRANCISCO April 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Biologics (207940.KS) and Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIR) today announced a manufacturing agreement under which Samsung Biologics will perform large scale manufacturing services for Vir's SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody (mAb) program. |
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Image copyright Getty Images. The coronavirus was "taken a little more lightly" by western economies compared to those in Asia, says a former IMF chief economist. Raghuram Rajan said western economies are facing a drop in economic growth by as much as 6% this year. |
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Less than four months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in China, the global pandemic has killed more than 90,000 people and shutdown societies in Europe, America and Asia. The creep of coronavirus across Australia caught many people off guard despite weeks of
on Saturday. The borders were closed on March 20, blocking all foreigners . |
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