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Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early sell-off, though Japan’s benchmark declined as investors reacted to news of a growing number of cases of a new virus among the local population. The Nikkei 225 fell 0.6% in morning trading to 23,683.44. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.4% to 7,134.70. |
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Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early sell-off, though Japan’s benchmark declined as investors reacted to news of a growing number of cases of a new virus among the local population. The Nikkei 225 fell 0.6% in morning trading to 23,683.44. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.4% to 7,134.70. |
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American singer-songwriter Khalid has postponed his upcoming concerts in several Asian countries, including in Indonesia. Promoters AEG Presents Asia and One Step Forward ID announced on Instagram on Friday that the postponement was due to “the recent advisories and travel restrictions in several Asian countries”. |
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Taher, a Rohingya Christian pastor, and his 14-year-old daughter were abducted from their shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh on the morning of January 27. The previous night scores of men attacked 22 Christian families living in Kutupalong Camp 2 in Cox's Bazaar. |
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AIR TRAVEL IN THE PACIFIC. The Pacific is a vast area, home to numerous island-states scattered over thousands of kilometres. The region, from Papua New Guinea to Pitcairn Island, crosses five time zones and spans over 8,000 kilometers. Because of the large distances between the various islands in.... |
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Asian stocks rebound from early losses as virus toll grows |
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Jack Raymond, a Portlander living in China, had read on the news that a strange virus was spreading in Asia, but he didn’t make that much of it. That changed when, upon returning to Beijing from Hong Kong, he saw that everybody in the airport terminal and the subway he took to get home was wearing a face mask. |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mostly higher on Friday with some of the markets recovering after a weak start following the modest losses overnight on Wall Street. Worries about the coronavirus outbreak eased slightly after China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus.... |
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The daily death toll in the Chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak halved on Friday, officials said, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus fears finally disembarked in Cambodia. News of the first death from the virus in Japan rattled Asian.... |
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With an existing cooperation by MSC and Maersk with Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) expiring at the end of March MSC said that the new agreement with SM Line from 1 April 2020 would provide continuity of services between Asia and the West Coast North America. The new cooperation agreement with SM Line covers six transpacific services. |
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Purchase: Order Reprint A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 64,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early.... |
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The Westerdam was supposed to be taking its 2,257 passengers and crew on a 14-day cruise around east Asia, beginning in Hong Kong on February 1 and ending on Saturday in Yokohama, Japan. But the vessel was turned away from Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand over fears it was carrying.... |
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Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early sell-off, though Japan's benchmark declined as investors reacted to news of a growing number of cases.
Three officials with a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles have been charged as part of an alleged scheme to trick followers into becoming.... |
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News of the first death from the virus in Japan rattled Asian markets, already on edge after hopes that the epidemic was stabilizing appeared to be dashed by a sharp rise in the number of cases on Thursday. In its latest update, China’s National Health Commission said it had recorded 121 new deaths.... |
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Jakarta : For the last month, the world has watched as COVID-19 has taken hold in China and then travelled around the world. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Australia. Across Asia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam and Hong Kong have all reported multiple cases. |
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By Amlan Chakraborty. NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Asia has seen a sharp decline in match-fixing over the last six years, the Asian Football Confederation and its integrity partner told Reuters, though illicit gambling has grown thanks partly to the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method. |
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Asian shares rose cautiously on Friday (Feb 14), on course to post the second straight week of gains, helped by hopes governments will make provisions to soften the impact on their economies from the coronavirus epidemic. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan ticked up 0. |
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Asia Online posts claiming student arrested due to COVID-19 untrue, say Johor health authorities.
Passengers wear protective masks while they wait for Light Rail Transit train at a station, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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HANGZHOU, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A freight train loaded with 82 standard containers left a railway station in the city of Jinhua, eastern China's Zhejiang Province Thursday, marking the resumption of the province's export to Belt and Road countries since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. |
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-step for the whole of South Asia. The new legislation is limited to Sindh province but speaks volumes about the state of women’s rights in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, countries where agriculture is the biggest sector and women form the largest labour population. |
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AKIPRESS.COM - Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Chingiz Aidarbekov participated in the 9th meeting of the EUCentral Asia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (WGECC) on February 12-13 in Brussels, the MFA reported. During the meeting, Aidarbekov told the participants about negative.... |
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(Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Thursday said it had canceled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia and joined larger rival Carnival Corp in warning that its full-year earnings would be hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The epidemic, which originated in China's Hubei province and has killed more.... |
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Luxury cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) Thursday said it has cancelled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The company expects the cancellations to have $0.65 per share impact on its full year 2020 earnings. |
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Meanwhile, rapper Stormzy postponed the Asia leg of his tour due to coronavirus and dental surgeries in the UK warned they were facing a desperate shortage of face masks due to Chinese supply problems. In China, the number of deaths from coronavirus has jumped to more than 1,350, with more than 60,000 recorded infections. |
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(Bangkok, November 14, 2019) – Cambodian authorities should drop the bogus espionage charges against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin were arrested on November 14, 2017 but have not been brought to trial. |
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