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Position Title: Regional Program Officer, JRS Asia Pacific. Location: Bangkok, Asia Pacific. Reports to: Regional Director. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an International Catholic agency with a mission to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. |
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Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) is one of Europe’s leading organisations in the work to protect the world’s rainforests and strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples, in cooperation with indigenous and environmental organisations in South East Asia, Central Africa and the Amazon. |
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Police had been searching for the snake since Sunday after it was spotted near Lovell Road. Officers had visited the area and met the reptile's owner, who confirmed the snake was 2.7m (9ft) long. Reticulated pythons are the world's longest snake and are native to southeast Asia. They can grow up to 9. |
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Asian oil refiners are being squeezed by rising freight rates and insurance costs for shipping crude from the Middle East after attacks on ships in the Gulf last month, industry officials and analysts said. The Middle East accounts for more than two-thirds of Asia’s oil supply and the attacks on.... |
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Washington • During a single visit to Asia, President Trump embraced not one, not two, but three dictators. He became the first American president to set foot in North Korea, where he praised his “great friendship” with North Korea’s despotic leader, Kim Jong Un; he held another cringe-worthy press.... |
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If ever there was proof that trade wars have no victors, that came as the U.S. Commerce Department imposed duties of more than 400% on steel imports from Vietnam. The southeast Asian nation has been touted as an early winner as companies shift supply chains away from China to places more shielded from U. |
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July 4, 2019, 9:04 pm The Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently received the coveted Best Bank of the Year in Sri Lanka award for the ninth time at the prestigious FinanceAsia Country Awards gala. At the event held in St. Regis Hotel, Hong Kong, the Bank was represented by Mr Prins Perera, Deputy.... |
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NEW YORK -- Vietnam has benefited from U.S. trade actions against other Asian countries, but this blessing is quickly turning into a curse as the nation's rising economic status draws increasing scrutiny from the tariff-hungry Trump administration. U.S. |
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On an expanse of recently cleared land, laborers prepare seedlings for a new Chinese banana plantation that is taking shape near the Lao capital in defiance of a central government prohibition on such projects. Radio Free Asia located the 30-hectare site about five kilometers (3 miles) from the.... |
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Singapore. SINGAPORE has become the go-to market in Asia for European banks needing to beef up their capital to comply with regulatory requirements. So far this year European banks have sold almost S$3 billion of debt in the Singapore dollar bond market, up from S$850 million in... |
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LONDON — Every two years, the United Nations issues its latest estimate of future population trends. Its 2019 projection reveals a stark divide. Across all of Asia, Europe and the Americas, population stability has already been achieved or soon will be, with the median projection suggesting an increase from 6. |
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump's trip to Asia. (all times local): 8:45 p.m. President Donald Trump is being welcomed to South Korea by its president - and one of its biggest K-pop boy bands. Trump's met with President Moon Jae-in (jah-YIHN') at the Blue House, where the South Korean leader has his offices and home. |
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By Murray Stassen Stockholm-based production music startup Epidemic Sound has raised $20 million to expand into new markets with a strong focus on Asia.
The funding was comprised of equity from DS Asset Management, a Korean asset manager founded by entrepreneur DS Jang, and debt from Skandinaviska.... |
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Alabama women in need of abortion care can travel to Saudi Arabia for less restrictive rules if the southern U.S. state's recent anti-choice law is upheld in the courts. That's according to a new study by Israeli newspaper Haaretz , which compared new laws in the U.S. to restrictions in Muslim-majority countries in southwest Asia and North Africa. |
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CMA CGM is glad to announce the improvement of its FAL 1 and FAL 3 services connecting Asia with North Europe. FAL 1 will have the following features: Rotation : Tianjin Xingang – Busan – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Singapore – Algeciras – Southampton – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Southampton –.... |
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China raised the security level for its vessels heading through the Strait of Malacca, a key Asian trade route and major oil choke point. The transport ministry advised Chinese-flagged ships to take heightened security steps and increased its security warning to level three, according to a copy of a.... |
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BANGKOK – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warned on Tuesday against a severe threat to the livelihood and food security of millions of people due to the rapid spread of African Swine Fever in East and Southeast Asia. Since the first outbreak of the disease was reported in.... |
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YANGON -- Asia's biggest economies of China, Japan and India are aggressively backing new port projects in Myanmar, seeking to gain a foothold on the coastline of the geographically prized nation. Located between China, India and Southeast Asia, Myanmar features prominently in regional plans to boost logistical connectivity. |
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SINGAPORE: High economic growth potential and the availability of “attractive” investment opportunities are the reasons why GIC continues to take a constructive view on Asia in the long run. “Asia presents attractive opportunities that can be found across consumption-based goods and services.... |
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LONDON Every two years, the United Nations issues its latest estimate of future population trends. Its 2019 projection reveals a stark divide. Across all of Asia, Europe, and the Americas, population stability has already been achieved or soon will be, with the median projection suggesting an increase from 6. |
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In this May 8, 2019, photo, pigs stand in a barn at a pig farm in Jiangjiaqiao village in northern China's Hebei province. Pork lovers worldwide are wincing at prices that have jumped by up to 40 percent as China's struggle to stamp out African swine fever in its vast pig herds sends shockwaves through global meat markets. |
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Every two years, the United Nations issues its latest estimate of future population trends. Its 2019 projection reveals a stark divide. Across all of Asia, Europe, and the Americas, population stability has already been achieved or soon will be, with the median projection suggesting an increase from 6. |
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Food aid is being tripled for troubled Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to respond to what the World Food Programme ( WFP ) has described as the world’s second largest hunger crisis in the world, after Yemen. In addition to worsening hunger, communities in north-east DRC.... |
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Singapore. GIC is already positioned as a significant Asian investor, and sees itself naturally growing its exposure to the region amid Asia's rising stature. In its latest annual report, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund showed a 32 per cent exposure to Asia, going by the... |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — She is President Donald Trump’s new top spokeswoman. But she said barely a word during what became her introduction to the world. Stephanie Grisham received a baptism by fire over the weekend as she accompanied the president on his high-stakes trip to Asia and threw her body into a fracas with North Korean security officials. |
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