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By Dominic Tierney* ) — For the youngest U.S. soldiers, America is about apple pie, Abe Lincoln, and Afghanistan. They have never known a United States that wasn’t at war in Central Asia. Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, America has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and suffered.... |
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Father Peter Liu Genzhu was ordained bishop of Hongdong (Linfen) on Dec. 22 in Shanxi province. The ordination came just a month after Bishop Thomas Chen Tianhao of Qingdao, Shandong, was ordained on Nov. 23, the first ordination with the approval of the Holy See and the Chinese government under the provisional agreement. |
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How would China have reacted to the onset of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact? Beijing certainly regarded the survival of NATO as critical to its security from the 1970s on. The existence of NATO prevented the USSR from concentrating the bulk of the Red Army and of Soviet strategic aviation.... |
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H ISTORY HAS turned a corner. The era of Western domination is ending. The resurgence of Asia in world affairs and the global economy, which was happening before the emergence of covid-19, will be cemented in a new world order after the crisis. The deference to Western societies, which was the norm.... |
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Muslim women watch a solar eclipse through special glasses at the campus of the Faculty of Astronomy of Muhammadiah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) in Medan, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. People along a swath of southern Asia gazed at the sky in marvel on Thursday at a "ring of fire" solar eclipse. |
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and “Nur Navoi Solar” Foreign Enterprise Limited Liability Company (NNS) signed loans of up to $17.5 million for a 100-megawatt (MW) solar power plant that will be the first public–private partnership renewable energy project in Uzbekistan. |
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The beginning of production at what is now Asia’s deepest offshore natural gas field will increase the share of natural gas in India’s energy basket. India set to strengthen natural gas production. A few days ago, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP announced the start of production from the R.... |
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Muslim women watch a solar eclipse through special glasses at the campus of the Faculty of Astronomy of Muhammadiah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) in Medan, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. People along a swath of southern Asia gazed at the sky in marvel on Thursday at a "ring of fire" solar eclipse. |
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Muslim women watch a solar eclipse through special glasses at the campus of the Faculty of Astronomy of Muhammadiah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) in Medan, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. People along a swath of southern Asia gazed at the sky in marvel on Thursday at a "ring of fire" solar eclipse. |
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Police claim drug smugglers are taking greater risks during the pandemic by sailing directly from Central America and Asia with their contraband. Police said boats packed with drugs are then trying to sneak into major NSW ports undetected rather than using obscure ports to mask their criminal activity. |
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NEW DELHI: Describing India as "Asia's gravity point", Japanese Deputy Minister of Defence Yasuhide Nakayama has said his country would like to see India "commit more" towards the Quadrilateral coalition or Quad. In an interview to news channel Wion, Nakayama also expressed conerns over growing.... |
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With protests becoming catalysts for anti-authoritarian struggle, the air is ripe for new visions of rural emancipation. South Asia’s rural landscape has been profoundly reshaped by such ‘reforms’, dispossessing farmers of their land, and pushing them into wage labour and migration as coping.... |
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Christmas brought good news for India whose overall v-19 recovery rate improved to 95.77 per cent on Friday, with Mumbai's Dharavi, one of the worst affected areas in the country, reporting no positive cases, for the first time since the spread of the coronavirus in one of Asia's largest slums. "The recovery rate has improved to 95. |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc’s next banking unit chief vowed to target business in Asia, while signalling the potential for cutbacks in developed markets as plunging interest rates dent profitability. “In Asia, we will pursue growth,” Junichi Hanzawa, 55, told reporters on Thursday after being appointed president of MUFG Bank Ltd. |
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Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country's powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
In a surprise move, a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court.... |
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. Soumya Basu is Senior Director, Business Development, South Asia, Visa.
This year has been like no other for digital payments. Even as economies came to a standstill, consumers pivoted to online shopping and businesses turned to remote delivery and digital acceptance. |
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Written, Directed & Produced by Reza Dormishian, 'No Choice' received the Best Feature Film Award, Best Audience Award and NETPAC Award of the 21st Asiatica Film Festival in Italy. In a message to the festival, Dormishian said, “These awards belong to each and every member of the production team who.... |
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Groups across the region are rallying to save buildings that officials consider too new, too ugly or too unimportant to protect from demolition. |
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Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country's powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
In a surprise move, a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court.... |
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Two climbers killed, two injured in Iran during heavy snowfall.
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the Tochal ski resort, in north of Tehran, Iran December 12, 2019. Picture taken December 12, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS reuters_tickers
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A feature article in a Hong Kong-based magazine depicting President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) as an authoritarian leader was an issue that did not deserve much attention, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday. The Chinese-language Yazhou Zhoukan (or “Asia Weekly”) posted on Facebook the cover of its edition to be released next week. |
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The Food & Health Bureau (FHB) today said no COVID-19 positive case was found among those who failed to receive SMS messages containing their negative test results, and there was no delay in treatment due to SMS messages not being sent out. The bureau made a clarification again in response to media.... |
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Five among the new patients are Vietnamese citizens, including two returning from the UK on December 22, and three from Germany on December 18. The sixth patient is a Brazilian expert who arrived from Qatar on December 24. They tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 while staying in quarantine after arrival. |
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GENEVA, Switzerland – Despite a sharp fall in global trade in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and lingering trade tensions, Asia and the Pacific is expected to perform relatively less badly than the rest of the world, the United Nations development arm in the region said on Tuesday. |
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New book from 2Bangkok.com's editor: Last Century The Tales of an Adventurer in the Asian Tiger Era
- Global Post, December 26, 2010 Looser laws, cheaper payouts lure more pharmaceutical tests to Thailand... |
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