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Sydney J. Harris. Last month (December 2019), the Indian Parliament passed a controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), dubbed as the “anti-Muslim law” as it grants citizenship to “persecuted” minorities except Muslims - who have flown from neighbouring countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to India. |
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ISLAMABAD - As the whole world is trying to de-escalate US-Iran tension, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells will travel to Pakistan from January 19 to January 22 and hold meetings with senior government officials to deliberate upon the matters of mutual and regional interests. |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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India plans to double crude oil imports from the US as part of its effort to reduce dependance on the volatile West Asia region, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter said. Oil purchases from the US, which started in 2017-18, have already crossed about 6 million tonnes a year. |
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Iraq welcomes India’s call for peace and stability in West Asia against the backdrop of the Iran-US stand-off, and the tensions in the region will not affect oil supplies, Iraqi ambassador Falah Abdulhasan Abdulsada said on Friday. Abdulsada said in an interview that all Indians living in Iraq are.... |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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Investors are worried about possible attacks on oil facilities in Southern Iraq that could affect crude supplies into Asia, an analyst told CNBC. Iraq is the second-largest oil producer in OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. A disruption to its output level could make it.... |
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Georgia has ended an investment agreement with an international consortium for one of the biggest projects in the former Soviet country, the construction of a major deep sea port on the Black Sea coast, its infrastructure minister said. The nine-phase project to improve access to Central Asia and.... |
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Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Sangiran, a World Heritage archeological site on the island of Java, is home to dozens of hominin fossils, comprising three different species, including evidence of the earliest hominid migration to Southeast Asia. Until now, scientists have struggled to figure out the precise timing of the hominin migrations that populated Java. |
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by Burak Akinci. ANKARA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The traditional Turkish archery dates back to the period of early Turkic tribes in Central Asia. Today more and more young athletes are fascinated by this ancient martial art. Last December, traditional Turkish archery was listed as UNESCO's intangible.... |
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What is it? The Asiapacific Fund, run by Matthew Dobbs since its launch in 1995, invests across the likes of China, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, but excludes Japan and the Middle East. It aims to grow investors’ money over the long term, in excess of the MSCI All Countries Asia (excluding Japan) index. |
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Market Research Inc declares it will add a comprehensive analysis called the Global Coffee Cup Market to its massive repository. Covers a variety of existing and future developments around the world, including North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and India. |
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Harold Burson, once a 14-cents-per-column-inch stringer for a Memphis newspaper, who reported the Nuremberg Trial for the Army radio network in Europe and whose one-man consultancy became by 1983 the world’s largest public relations firm, died on January 10, 2020. He was 98. |
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While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market. |
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Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. At Aberdeen, asset management is our business. We only manage assets for clients, allowing us to focus solely on their needs and deliver independent, objective investment advice. We know global markets from the local level upwards, drawing on more than 1,900 staff, across 32 offices in 23 countries. |
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Global 3000 Global 3000 - The Globalization Program. Global 3000's new Social Justice series turns the spotlight on the work world in Asia and Europe. We also meet an ice hockey team in Kenya and some butterfly farmers in Costa Rica. |
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The disease infecting and killing pigs in Africa, Europe and Asia will eventually spread to North America, say researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac). That means new funding from the federal government.... |
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by Burak Akinci. ANKARA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The traditional Turkish archery dates back to the period of early Turkic tribes in Central Asia. Today more and more young athletes are fascinated by this ancient martial art. Last December, traditional Turkish archery was listed as UNESCO's intangible.... |
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From the flood-ravaged banks of the Brahmaputra to the disappearing wetlands of the Mekong, Asia’s main waterways — and the people that live along them — are fighting for survival. Climate change, international politics, spiralling population growth, and unchecked development are putting.... |
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Household appliance giant Dyson is broadening the technology role of its Singapore research and development team as part of the plan to shift its UK headquarters to the Asian island nation. Dyson has started recruiting for “early stage research projects specifically in Singapore,” Charlie Park,.... |
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Most Asian markets rose yesterday but investors struggled to maintain a rally triggered by easing US-Iran tensions the previous day, as focus turned back to the global economic outlook. The toning down of rhetoric from Donald Trump and Tehran following an Iranian missile attack on US assets in Iraq.... |
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Asian refining margins for 10 ppm gasoil fell on Friday, posting their biggest weekly decline in more than three years, weighed down by muted buying interest as the market awaits an expected demand boost following a switch to cleaner fuels in the shipping sector. |
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It is believed that some intelligence quarters in the United States have even simulated such a scenario and predicted many deaths. However, Safdar Zaidi has a different take on it. He is a fiction writer and has fictionalised a possible nuclear holocaust between Pakistan and India. |
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 10. By Eldar Janashvili - Trend: By introducing modern farming techniques and mechanization, Azerbaijan can improve productivity and establish a food-secure nation, Trend reports with reference to Asian Development Bank (ADB) report on agriculture development in Central Asia. |
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