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The Turkish military action against the Kurdish Syrian enclave, following a green light from the Kurds’ former backer, the United States (US), is a useful indicator of several geopolitical trends in West Asia. The immediate response, especially in the US, has been to use the decision as an.... |
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Global leader in cloud artificial intelligence architecture and robotics opens office facilities in Santiago, Chile to expand customer support for the southern hemisphere; The new operation reports to the company’s global headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. building upon strong worldwide presence across the Americas and Asia. |
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BBN (Blake Broadcasting) has entered into a multi-year content licensing agreement with Bloomberg Media to provide up to 5 hours of Bloomberg Television’s global business news and finance programming daily for CBNN Television Networks in Europe, Asia and North America. |
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Djokovic powers past Isner into Shanghai Masters quarterfinals Ahead of Modi-Xi meet, India's engineering exports to China sharply up : EEPC India Iraqi FM reassures foreign ambassadors of national security Total of 109 terrorists killed since beginning of Turkey's offensive in Syria: Erdogan Heavy.... |
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TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Asia Abucay Paraase crossed the finish line first among the participants of the 5K women’s division of the Milio Marathon Cebu Leg at the Cebu City Sports Center on Sept. 30, 2019. But it was a different kind of finish line that her mother saw—the Olympics. |
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 10, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - Officials from the European Commission and the European External Action Service are assessing Cambodia's standing in the Everything But Arms (EBA) deal. The EBA allows Cambodia to export products other than weapons to the EU at zero tariff and quota free. |
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THE Channel News Asia filmed a travel documentary in and around ancient Bagan, the UNESCO Heritage Site of Myanmar. On 8 October, the Singapore-based television crew shot the scenes of Bagan temples, hot air balloon ride and inter-view with a well-known puppeteer U Sein Myint Aung. |
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David Kennedy has consulted to many of the Asia Pacific's telecommunications networks, including Telstra, NBN and Optus, and said the rollout of 5G in South Korea provided an insight for Australia. "One of the effects we saw in [South] Korea with 5G rolling out [was] that a lot of early adopters in.... |
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Most of the refiners are getting the crude grades that they want, the sources said on Thursday, adding that there was no request from state-owned Saudi Aramco for them to change grades.
SINGAPORE/TOKYO - At least seven refiners across Asia will receive the full Saudi crude volumes they have.... |
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The Asian Ghost series has remained GGNW's most consistent seller in the Asian market, particularly in China and Indonesia. Croft-Cusworth thinks he understands why: Chinese and Indonesians are frightened yet fascinated by the same thing. "Asian folklore is interwoven," he says. |
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Thai AirAsia from December 2019 plans to introduce Chiang Rai Hangzhou service, where the airline plans to operate 4 weekly flights. First flight is scheduled on 01DEC19. FD888 CEI1750 2245HGH 320 x246 FD889 HGH2350 0305+1CEI 320 x246
The route development forum for Asia Chiang Mai, Thailand 8 - 10 March 2020. |
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FILE PHOTO: A participant stands near a logo of World Bank at the International Monetary Fund - World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua,
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia Pacific growth is expected to slow to 5.8% in 2019, down from 6.3% in 2018, due to uncertainty around the ongoing U.S.-China trade tensions, a World Bank report said on Thursday. |
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia Pacific growth is expected to slow to 5.8% in 2019, down from 6.3% in 2018, due to uncertainty around the ongoing U.S.-China trade tensions, a World Bank report said on Thursday.
The report highlights the weakening global demand and heightened uncertainty that led to a.... |
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The 32nd Annual UP Pi Sigma Fraternity Open Debate Tournament will be held this September and October in UP Diliman. The longest-running open debate tournament in Asia is back and will be held on September 27 for the elimination rounds, October 3 for the semifinal rounds, and October 11 for the final round. |
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Major Asian stock markets recovered from earlier lows to trade higher Thursday afternoon as investors watched for developments on the U.S.-China trade front ahead of high-level negotiations between the two economic powerhouses. Mainland Chinese stocks edged up by the afternoon, with the Shanghai composite up 0. |
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HONG KONG : Asian markets rose Thursday but investors moved cautiously as they sifted through conflicting reports about the outlook for upcoming China-US trade talks. Global investors have been broadly upbeat in recent weeks that the meeting in Washington between top-level representatives would see at least some progress. |
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SINGAPORE/BANGKOK : Thailand and Philippine companies are leading a regional pick-up in initial public offerings (IPOs), spurred by growing investor interest in firms focussed on Southeast Asian consumers. Asset World Corp, the hospitality and property firm listed by Thai billionaire Charoen.... |
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MANILA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines is one of the so-called "sachet economies" where products are packed and repacked and then sold in one-off plastic packets. A 2019 study by research agency, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), revealed that the Southeast Asian archipelago uses 60 billion plastic sachets every year. |
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ASIA. A Chinese official has told Bloomberg that China is not expecting an agreement with the US this week although talks are due to start tomorrow. However, there is an idea floating around for a partial deal, which would see some of the tariffs lifted, but they stressed that this would not be.... |
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Shuaib Bahman. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has been cast as the site of a new “great game”. Central Asia has been largely influenced by international developments and the emergence of persistent sources of instability and tension in other parts of the world, including the Middle East and North Africa. |
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Editor’s Note: Michael Dean is founding partner at AgFunder and Executive Director of the GROW accelerator in Singapore. It can be common to hear people, particularly in the West, talk about Asia as if it’s one country — the same happens in less enlightened discussions about “Africa. |
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are mixed on Thursday in choppy trade amid conflicting reports on the progress in the ongoing U.S.-China trade talks. The New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to soon issue licenses to U.S. companies to sell certain goods to Huawei Technologies after having blacklisted the Chinese
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CHINA-- World number one Novak Djokovic extended his winning run in Asia when he strolled into the last-16 of the Shanghai Masters with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Canada's Denis Shapovalov on Wednesday. The ATP Masters 1000 event is the Serb's second tournament since a U.S. |
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The MTV Vietnam music channel announced that rapper Suboi would be representative the country, competing in the "Best Southeast Asia Act" category at MTV EMA 2019. This is the first time there is a nomination from the Vietnamese hip-hop scene. The Vietnamese rapper's presence in this venue is seen.... |
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If you want to know who really controls The Bank of East Asia, Limited ( HKG:23 ), then you'll have to look at the makeup of its share registry. Institutions will often hold stock in bigger companies, and we expect to see insiders owning a noticeable percentage of the smaller ones. I quite like to see at least a little bit of insider ownership. |
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