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M Ziauddin We are a part of the Asian continent but oddly enough, Pakistan finds itself growth-wise too far from what is called the rising Asia. Physically we are next-door neighbors of China, the country that leads Asia and India that is striking out its own Asian path but progress-wise Pakistan seems to be located in too distant a continent. |
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there are seven countries in the world whose external loan debt to China surpasses 25 percent of their GDP. Three (Djibouti, Niger and The Republic of the Congo) are located in Africa, while four (Kyrgyztan, Laos, Cambodia and the Maldives) are in Asia. |
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A damaged car is seen under the ruins, after an earthquake hit the Varankesh village in Eastern Azerbaijan province, northwest of Tehran, Iran November 08, 2019. Tasnim News Agency/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
SULAIMANI A strong earthquake of magnitude 5. |
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NEW YORK/ZURICH • The world's billionaires saw their collective fortunes dip last year for the first time in three years, erasing US$388 billion (S$527.5 billion) of their net worth. Asia was hardest hit, as slowing growth in China and rising United States interest rates resulted in an 8 per cent.... |
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MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - For ordinary fishermen and other Filipinos whose livelihoods are dependent on the peace and stability in the areas covering Scarborough Shoal and other parts within our exclusive economic zone, the long-overdue Code of Conduct (COC) being.... |
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DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - According to a recent report, the country is likely to be hit by a "carbon bomb" once the projected 30-coal based power plants go into operation by 2031. The report titled "Choked by Coal: The Carbon Catastrophe in Bangladesh" was jointly released by Australia-based Market Force and US-based 350. |
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KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia will not pick a fight with the country hosting 1Malaysia Development Berhad fugitive Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, and no, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) does not always report all that he knows, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday (Nov 7). |
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FINALLY, A US-CHINA DEAL? First, China said a deal is in sight on some aspects of its raging trade dispute with the United States. Now, US officials seem to confirm this, telling the New York Times that an initial trade deal between the two countries would roll back a portion of the tariffs placed.... |
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In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, photo, a visitor takes a selfie with a pig during Toba Pig and Pork Festival, in Muara, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Christian residents in Muslim-majority Indonesia's remote Lake Toba region have launched a new festival celebrating pigs that they say is a response to efforts to promote halal tourism in the area. |
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HONG KONG — Chinese online retail titan Alibaba is hoping to raise up to $15 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, a report said Friday, which would be the city's biggest listing for nine years. The share sale by Asia's biggest company would also come as Hong Kong authorities battle months of sometimes.... |
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From Mokhtar Hussain SEOUL, Nov 8 -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in has urged news agencies in the Asia-Pacific region to provide continued attention and support towards solving the long-term Korean conflict. “Peace on the Korean peninsula is a starting point for achieving a peace community of.... |
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November 20-22, 2019, Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregoan, Mumbai Business Wire India. The 8 th edition of Traffic InfraTech expo along with Parking InfraTech and Smart Mobility expo open in Mumbai on November 20 with participation from over 100 exhibitors from different countries including USA, the.... |
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By Ellen Milligan and Jonathan Browning Three Chinese banks are suing the brother of Asia’s richest man in a London court for failing to pay back $680 million in defaulted loans. The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China agreed to loan $925. |
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By Saeed Shah/Wall Street Journal Courtesy NewsIn.Asia. Sri Lanka became an early adopter of what became China’s Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure program, which aims to strengthen Beijing’s sway through Asia and beyond by building infrastructure. |
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The world’s billionaires saw their collective fortunes dip in 2018 for the first time in three years, erasing $388 billion of their net worth. Asia was hardest hit, as slowing growth in China and rising U.S. interest rates resulted in an 8% wealth drop among that continent’s richest people,.... |
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by Tamara Kunanayakam, Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. [T]here is no friendship when nations are not equal, when one has to obey another and when one only dominates another.” -Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India Closing Speech at the Asian-African Conference, Bandung, 1955. |
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THRISSUR: There’s no ‘offseason’ for farmer Varghese Tharakan’s barely three-yearold jacktree farm. His trees bear fruit at least twice a year. Jack trees in Asia normally have three to four month seasons starting March or April depending on the region. |
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It was not clear whether the so-called "bans" were based on company policies, or rather reflected...
Abe condemned the test at an Asian summit this week, while saying he was eager to meet North Korean leader...
The months of protests have plunged the former British colony into its biggest crisis in decades, with. |
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Global technology and emerging market funds were among the sectors sought after by British investors last week as individuals pulled their cash out of home-grown stocks and shares. Fidelity Global Technology, First Asia State Focus and JP Morgan Emerging Markets were the most-traded funds on Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain’s biggest fund supermarket. |
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Historians may trace the decline of online gambling in Asia to a bricks and mortar failure. The June 22 building site collapse in Sihanoukville that left 28 construction workers dead and 26 more injured brought unwelcome attention to a Chinese investment tsunami in the once placid Cambodian seaside resort. |
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LAHORE: Tent Pegging is one of the most popular equestrian sports of ancient origin where a rider mounted on a horseback with an edged weapon takes on the wooden ground targets at full gallop. Although it is widely known that cavaliers of Asia from the olden days practised this skill for raiding.... |
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Major companies are eager to get a slice of the multi-billion dollar global cannabis industry to market the drug as a lifestyle product with medical properties, said Second Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo on Thursday (7 November) at the Asia Pacific Forum Against Drugs. |
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Tajik authorities say fifteen jihadists were killed during an attack on a border post. (AP pic) ALMATY: The Islamic State group on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack against a Tajik border post this week, but Central Asia watchers cast doubt on the jihadists’ claim as well as official Tajik statements on the incident. |
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Sir: Pakistan is the most urbanized country in South Asia and Lahore is growing at a rate of four percent annually but the bad environment of Lahore nowadays is touching maximum level and has become the most polluted city after Mumbai. Reason behind present smog might be burning crops in Indian.... |
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