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In the Philippines — Asia's only majority Roman Catholic country — priests sprinkled ashes on the heads of the faithful rather than making the mark of the cross on their foreheads to avoid physical contact.
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Catholic devotees have ash sprinkled on their heads during Ash Wednesday rites Feb. 26, 2020 in Paranaque, metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has recommended sprinkling ash on the head of devotees instead of using it to mark foreheads with a cross.... |
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Asia has reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases, including the first US soldier to be infected, as the United States warned of an inevitable pandemic, and outbreaks in Italy and Iran spread to more countries.
The disease is believed to have originated in a market selling wildlife in the Chinese.... |
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SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Asia reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including a U.S. soldier stationed in South Korea, as the United States warned of an inevitable pandemic and outbreaks in Italy and Iran spread to other countries. |
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While China has been by far the worst-affected part of Asia, Japan has also reported over 150 cases of the disease, with four deaths so far. Three of the reported cases occurred in Tokyo itself.
Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympics Committee has recently suggested that, rather.... |
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DW News DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 26 February 2020. Sectarian rioting in Delhi leaves at least 20 dead and hundreds injured. How did a new citizenship law lead to the violence and what is the government doing to stop it? Plus, the banning of a popular opposition party raises questions over the future of democracy in Thailand. |
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By Ofeliya Afandiyeva. The volume of Azerbaijan’s revenues from the transportation of goods within the framework of the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) increased by 6.2 percent year-on-year in 2019 to reach $396,822,758, local media reported. |
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2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympic Games are scheduled to begin on 24 July 2020 but plans could be in jeopardy as Japan struggles to deal with the virus. While China has been by far the worst-affected part of Asia, Japan has also reported over 150 cases of the disease, with four deaths so far. |
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Feb 26, 2020.
Currency traders watch monitors today at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Asian shares slid Wednesday following another sharp fall on Wall Street as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy. |
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Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Asian shares slid Wednesday following another sharp fall on Wall Street as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy. |
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While China has been by far the worst-affected part of Asia, Japan has also reported over 150 cases of the disease, with four deaths so far. Three of the reported cases occurred in Tokyo itself.
Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympics Committee has recently suggested that, rather.... |
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As of Wednesday, there were 80,419 confirmed coronavirus cases globally and 2,711 deaths. The virus has spread in Asia, Middle East, Europe and America. One case has been confirmed in Algeria. COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. |
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SINGAPORE A report by INTERPOL on cybercrime in Southeast Asia has highlighted the key emerging cybercrime trends and threats which continues to be faced by the region today. INTERPOL’s ‘ASEAN Cyberthreat Assessment 2020’ provides an in-depth analysis of the cybercrime trends and threats confronting.... |
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SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Asia reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including a U.S. soldier stationed in South Korea, as the United States warned of an inevitable pandemic and outbreaks in Italy and Iran spread to other countries. |
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While China has been by far the worst-affected part of Asia, Japan has also reported over 150 cases of the disease, with four deaths so far. Three of the reported cases occurred in Tokyo itself.
Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympics Committee has recently suggested that, rather.... |
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While China has been by far the worst-affected part of Asia, Japan has also reported over 150 cases of the disease, with four deaths so far. Three of the reported cases occurred in Tokyo itself.
Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympics Committee has recently suggested that, rather.... |
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Greece confirmed its first coronavirus case on Wednesday while Asia reported hundreds of new cases, including the first US soldier to be infected in South Korea, as the United States warned of an inevitable pandemic. Asian shares fell on Wednesday as the US warning to Americans to prepare for a.... |
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A currency trader watches monitor at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Asian shares slid Wednesday following another sharp fall on Wall Street as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy. |
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KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad went to bed on Monday (Feb 24) as the newly-appointed interim Prime Minister , unsure whether he would want to return permanently to the top job. He had reportedly told Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) and Umno leaders, whom he met.... |
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AKIPRESS.COM - The Turkmen delegation took part in a regional workshop recently held in Kazakhstan’s Almaty city as part of the implementation of the EU's Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA-9), Trend reports. The issue of benefits of using the method of transferring the functions.... |
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AKIPRESS.COM - Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to UN Ambassador Mirgul Moldoisaeva attended the event in connection with launch of the project of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism aimed to prevent and combat illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, to disrupt the illicit supply of these weapons to terrorist groups in Central Asia. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The number of new virus infections in South Korea jumped again Wednesday and the U.S. military reported its first case among its soldiers based in the Asian country, with his case and many others connected to a southeastern city with an illness cluster. |
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Agreement marks the first expansion of Berlin -based urban farming company to Asia , offering produce freshly-harvested at JR East-owned Kinokuniya retail locations in Tokyo starting in summer 2020. An additional distribution partnership with Muroo Co. Ltd will drive Infarm's national expansion in Japan through 2021. |
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MANILA, Philippines Seasoned actress Judy Ann Santos and "Asia's Multimedia Star" Alden Richards lead the list of 52 awardees for this year's Ani ng Dangal Awards conferred annually by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Artists in architecture and the allied arts, cinema, dance,.... |
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Coronavirus has spread further around the world as a World Health Organisation expert warned that countries outside China are “simply not ready” for a pandemic. The virus has proliferated in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East in recent days, with the death toll rising in Iran, infections in.... |
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