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Vietnamese star midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has slipped two places from 2018 to 17th among 24 best Asian footballers of 2019.
With eight points, Hai still stood above some famous players like Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan, who plays for Premier League club Brighton, Japanese left-back Yuto.... |
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Visitors wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets try a driving system at a Nissan Motors booth during the CES Asia Show in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Photo: Bloomberg.
Trump administration officials to talk tech policy at annual CES industry extravaganza in Las Vegas. |
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Two provocative drama series are set to launch the new year in high gear for viewers of HBO and HBO Asia. “The Outsider,” based on Stephen King’s acclaimed 2018 horror-mystery novel, and the searing drama anthology “Invisible Stories,” about the lives of residents in a housing estate in Singapore,.... |
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AirAsia Philippines is increasing domestic and international flights ahead of the busy summer season this year. The budget airline, part of Malaysia’s Air Asia Group, announced more flights in hubs outside Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which suffers from congestion issues. |
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Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki on Friday called for banks and other financial firms to improve their risk management processes and channel more funds into the real economy.
Hong made the remarks at a meeting for the new year with heads of economic and financial institutions, including Bank of Korea Gov. |
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Iranian policemen hold pictures of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, during a protest against the assassination of Soleimani, in Tehran January 3, 2020. — Picture by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via Reuters. BAGHDAD, Jan 4 — A fresh air strike hit pro-Iran fighters.... |
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Government-backed development banks of Japan, China and South Korea have signed an agreement with public and private financial institutions in Southeast Asia to meet growing demand for infrastructure projects in the fast-growing region. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the China.... |
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In its newly released International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019) Reference case, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. Most of this growth comes from countries that are not in the Organization for.... |
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High capacity utilization continued Thursday at US LNG export terminals, with feedgas deliveries near record levels, amid robust winter demand and strong market fundamentals in Asia and Europe, S&P Global Platts Analytics data showed. The activity comes as the first cargo shipped from Kinder.... |
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, introduced S. 3081, the Cambodia Democracy Act, in response to the deteriorating human rights and democracy situation in Cambodia. |
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of Indian oil and gas imports (and India imports the majority of the oil it consumes). It is also a growing source of investment for India. In addition, Delhi has hoped that this region will serve as a transit route to Afghanistan and Central Asia, including through the Iranian port of Chabahar that.... |
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's blossoming gay community is generating new business opportunities, including bars and cafes. The Tourism Authority of Thailand launched a campaign targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender visitors in 2018 that has involved roadshows in Asia, Europe and the U.S. |
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden got testy while answering a question about remarks that were deceptively edited to falsely suggest he viewed white “European culture” as superior to those of African or Asian countries. |
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Zubair Qureshi. A delegation of women MPAs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly was briefed on Friday about Prime Minister’s flagship programme, ‘Ehsaas.’ The delegation included Ayesha Naeem, Rabia Basri, Zeenat Bibi, Madiha Nisar, Maria Fatima, Sajida Hanif, Dr Asia Asad, Ayesha Bano, Asia Khattak and Dr. |
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The Supreme Court judgment on Asia Bibi’s case formally vindicated Governor Salman Taseer’s stance on the issue. He did not need the vindication. He would not have cared for it. However, it is proper that it did come, and Asia’s ordeal came to an end. Taseer’s ultimate sacrifice made it nearly impossible for the case to be decided any other way. |
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The Supreme Court judgment on Asia Bibi’s case formally vindicated Governor Salman Taseer’s stance on the issue. He did not need the vindication. He would not have cared for it. However, it is proper that it did come, and Asia’s ordeal came to an end. Taseer’s ultimate sacrifice made it nearly.... |
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When Qassem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike on Friday morning, those who knew West Asia immediately recognised the significance of the moment and how it could unleash an escalatory spiral, even leading up to a possible war. But for those who did not follow the region, the immediate question.... |
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Kashmiri Shiite Muslims shout anti American and Israeli slogans during a protest against the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani.(AP Photo)
India on Friday called for restraint and de-escalation of the situation in West Asia following the killing of.... |
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Why is the U.S. killing of Soleimani significant? General Soleimani was the commander of the Quds Force, an external unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , whose primary activities were outside Iran’s borders. He was particularly adept at creating militias manned by recruits from across the Middle East and South Asia. |
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Friday’s assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Qods Force for over two decades, in Baghdad, is a reckless and unilateral act of provocation by the U.S. that could trigger another full-scale war in West Asia. The strike against Mr. |
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A rare collection of “extraordinary” Eastern art and furnishings is to go on auction in Yorkshire covering hundreds of lots from Asia to Istanbul. The collection belongs to a single second-generation antiques dealer called AT Dexter, who has spent 30 years travelling extensively across India, Turkey and Egypt. |
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Walter Nyamukondiwa – Kariba Bureau Zimbabwe is set to consolidate and develop tourism in the Asian market when it participates at the 27th South Asia Travel and Tourism Exchange (SATTE) in New Delhi, India from January 8 to 10. The business to business platform is expected to enhance destination.... |
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Istanbul – “All of the minorities in Turkey share that same opinion: under the power of the Akp, we are living in the most peaceful time and happy from the time of the founding of the Turkish Republic”. So do you see the situation Sahak II Masalyan, the new Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, as reported by the Turkish media. |
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The global Millimeter Wave Technology Market was valued at USD 290.12 million in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 4,376.01 million by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 35.19% from 2017 to 2025. Radio waves in this band have wavelengths from ten to one millimetre, giving it the name millimetre band or millimetre wave, sometimes abbreviated MMW or mmW. |
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DW News DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 3 January, 2020. The Himalyan glaciers melting under the impact of climate change. Delhi's last gramophone repairman keeping the music spinning. Taiwan's indigenous Atayal community making a mark in a changing world. And the Chinese whiz kids coding their country's future. |
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