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1. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has published fee benchmarks for anaesthetists’ fees and doctors’ inpatient attendance fees for the private sector. These include recommended fee ranges for anaesthetists for about 190 procedures, as well as doctors’ inpatient attendance fees for consultations and reviews of patients in different ward settings. |
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BEIJING Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asset, a leading Asian financial monthly, recently announced the winners of its Triple A Country Awards for China . Taihecap won the Best Private Equity Adviser award for its best-in-class deal-making, research, and empowerment capabilities, becoming the.... |
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TEHRAN, Dec. 29 (MNA) – Four Iranian football players are among the nominees for the best footballer of the year in Asia in the view of Fox News Asia.
The Australian Fox Sports Network in its Twitter account announced the nominees for the best footballer of the year in Asia. |
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President of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Rita Subowo is happy with the improvement of the Iranian women’s volleyball team and predicts that the Team could be among the top teams of the world like the Iranian men’s volleyball team soon. Subowo made history in late October after she was elected as the first-ever woman to lead AVC. |
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The airline, which previously owned 49% of AirAsia India as part of a joint venture with Tata Sons, said the sale would allow the company to focus on its recovery in its key Southeast Asian markets. (Jagadeesh NV/ Mint)
Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd said in a bourse filing on Tuesday it plans to sell 32. |
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BANGKOK -- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership covering 30% of the world's population and gross domestic product was signed last month after eight years of marathon negotiations. As the United States and some other nations are taking a protectionist path, RCEP is significant in a general.... |
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Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani spent much of 2020 convincing Facebook Inc., Google and a clutch of Wall Street heavyweights to buy into his vision for one of the world's most ambitious corporate transformations.
Now flush with $27 billion in fresh capital, Asia's richest man is under pressure to deliver. |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mostly higher on Tuesday amid improved risk appetite as U.S. President Donald Trump's signing of a $2.3 trillion pandemic bill and the Brexit trade deal raised hopes of an economic recovery. Investor sentiment was further boosted after the U.S. |
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Cambodian premier Hun Sen announced Tuesday that the kingdom had extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, a long-awaited milestone for one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations. The Gulf of Thailand boasts significant oil deposits, with Chevron first finding proven reserves off Cambodia in 2005. |
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Mark J Valencia is an internationally recognized maritime policy analyst, political commentator and consultant focused on Asia. Most recently he was a visiting senior scholar at China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and continues to be an adjunct senior scholar with the Institute. |
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Singapore-based Channel News Asia (CNA) recently published a commentary by Koh Swee Lean Collin recommending policy approaches for the incoming US administration of Joe Biden vis-à-vis China and the South China Sea. The piece explores the meaning of “militarization” and criticizes China for.... |
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Year 2020’s list of Women Leadership award winners included Kaushalya Rajapaksha, Founder/ CEO, Pencil Works Pvt. Ltd; Dilsha Ruwanpathirana, Co-founder/ Director, Brands In Style (Pvt) Ltd; NadeeraKarawita, Co-Founder/ Director, InnoLabs (Pvt) Ltd; Maheshi Anandasiri, Director of Operations Abans.... |
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Cambodia's Hun Sen hails extraction of country's 'first drop of oil' Phnom Penh, Dec 29, 2020 (AFP) - Cambodian premier Hun Sen announced Tuesday that the kingdom had extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, a long-awaited milestone for one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations. |
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RF Cable is a high-capacity cable widely used for high-frequency transmission of telephone, television, and digital audio signals. The cable is very effective at carrying many analog signals at high frequencies. There are a number of benefits of this cable such as faster transmission, higher.... |
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The situation in the African countries of the Sahel region is of great concern to us, as is the situation in Mozambique. The religious extremism of violent, radical Islamists is on the increase here and threatens to destroy the existing peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims in these.... |
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The vote came after President Donald Trump recently asked Congress to increase the amount of stimulus checks. After holding up the legislation for a few days, the outgoing Republican president signed the bipartisan package into law Sunday night. Following months of deadlock over the size and scope.... |
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Cambodian premier Hun Sen announced Tuesday that the kingdom had extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, a long-awaited milestone for one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations. The Gulf of Thailand boasts significant oil deposits, with Chevron first finding proven reserves off Cambodia in 2005. |
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Asia Rohingya refugees fear forceful relocation to remote island.
Bangladesh’s unilateral decision to relocate thousands of Rohingya to a cyclone-prone island has created fear among the inhabitants of Cox's Bazar refugee camp. |
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Dr Ng is widely regarded as the Malaysian pioneer in breast cancer research and advanced radiology. — Pictures courtesy of Dr Ng Kwan Hoong. PETALING JAYA, Dec 29 — Malaysian scientist Dr Ng Kwan Hoong can add another feather to his cap after winning the prestigious Merdeka Award 2020 for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. |
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In early afternoon trading on Tuesday, Japan’s benchmark Topix added 1.3 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 1 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively. Overnight, Wall Street’s S&P 500 index ended 0.9 per cent higher to surpass a record set in December as.... |
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SINGAPORE－The global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is going to be led by Asia, and particularly by China, said Bernard Yeung, a professor at the National University of Singapore Business School. While other regions are still dealing with the third or fourth wave of the pandemic,.... |
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MANILA (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) - The Philippines has approved Janssen Pharmaceuticals' application to conduct a clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine in the South-east Asian nation. "In the next few weeks, we will be able to begin clinical trials," Food and Drug Administration Director-General Eric.... |
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— China on Tuesday reported seven new cases of coronavirus infection in the capital Beijing, where authorities have ordered the testing of hundreds of thousands of residents. Cases have been clustered largely in villages on Beijing’s northeastern edge, but authorities are wary of any spread in the.... |
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Currency traders watch computer monitors near the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Asian stock markets rose Monday after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion economic aid package,.... |
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China has escalated its campaign to rein in the vast tech empire controlled by Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba and one of the country’s richest people. Authorities in Beijing, who had on Christmas Eve ordered an investigation into allegations of “monopolistic practices” by Ma’s online retail.... |
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