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A surging Naomi Osaka found further redemption for a string of disappointing performances over the summer with her second consecutive title in Asia at the China Open on Sunday. Osaka bounced back from a set down to top-seeded Ash Barty, cruising through the final two sets to defeat the top-seeded.... |
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But the deadly disease is something playing on the mind of Barongarook pork producer Xavier Meade. "Early on, when it was first discovered in Europe, we didn't really pay that much attention to it," he said. "I guess now, with the spread of it through Asia and the fact it is so close to home, just.... |
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TIslamabad - Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering has issued an evaluation report showing Pakistan’s progress on compliance to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations. According to its Mutual Evaluation Report October 2019, Pakistan has ...
TIslamabad - The government has announced to establish the proposed CPEC authority shortly. |
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Military spending is growing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and Asia where it grew by 7.2% and 4.3% respectively in 2017. Despite this opportunity, corruption, inefficiency and misrule prevented South Africa’s defence equipment manufacturer Denel from capturing a slice of the growth. |
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Freight rates to ship U.S. crude to Asia continued to surge, with costs to charter a supertanker rising to a record $12 million on Thursday, shipping sources familiar with the matter said. South Korea’s top refiner, SK Energy, tentatively chartered the supertanker Maxim to ship U.S. |
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For the past year Teck Resources Limited has -4.87% weaker performance while U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. has 36.15% stronger performance. Summary. Teck Resources Limited beats U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. on 12 of the 13 factors. Teck Resources Limited explores for, develops, and produces natural resources in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. |
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As Team Trump seeks to expand the eye of their Biden conspiracy to East Asia, the president and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have wheeled out an absurd new claim: that Hunter Biden was paid $1.5 BILLION by China. This week, Trump sparked a fresh firestorm of controversy when he told reporters outside.... |
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October 6, 2019, 9:20 pm The Informal Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) held in New York last week has approved the nomination of former Foreign Secretary, Esala Weerakoon, to be the 14th Secretary General of SAARC, from 01 March 2020. |
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President Xi Jinping's head must be spinning as his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump ropes China into his impeachment mess. Yet his calls for Beijing to investigate Joe Biden, Trump's main rival, ahead of the 2020 election are the least of Xi's worries. The U.S. |
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I was a first-year high school seminarian at the Sacred Heart Seminary when our local archdiocese of Palo in Leyte celebrated four hundred years of the evangelization of Leyte, which began with the establishment of the Jesuit mission in Carigara. The islands of Leyte and Samar were at first assigned.... |
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A mosaic tile arch graces one of the glass exhibition cabinets in a darkened room in the sprawling Museum of Islamic Art on Doha's waterfront. The 15 th century piece from central Asia, charming though it is, will never be a contender for the prize of world's most beautfiful artefact. Still it holds its own in the collection. |
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Killer Asian hornets are bringing death to our native honeybees. Seven nests of the aggressive invaders have already been destroyed but it is feared there may be more. The hornets, which decapitate up to 50 bees a day then take the bodies back to their nests, were mistakenly brought into France in a.... |
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SYDNEY/PARIS: The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) on Saturday published its report on money-laundering and terror-financing in Pakistan, a week before its Paris-based G7 counterpart, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is set to announce its decision to remove or retain Islamabad in its grey list. |
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Sports ministers from ten Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) member-countries and Japan gather in Manila today as the 5th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports (AMMS-5) and other Related Meetings kicks off its series of sessions spread across a five-day schedule. |
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Newport Asia Llc decreased its stake in Ctrip.Com International (CTRP) by 0.88% based on its latest 2019Q2 regulatory filing with the SEC. Newport Asia Llc sold 20,600 shares as the company’s stock declined 10.47% . The institutional investor held 2.33M shares of the miscellaneous company at the end of 2019Q2, valued at $85. |
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The Asia pacific group (APG) of the Financial Action Task Force in its mutual evaluation report has said Pakistan that has not taken sufficient action to implement sanctions under the United Nation Security Committee of 1267 on 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and country "faces significant money laundering and terror financing risks. |
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Benjamin Yao Chairman, President and CEO SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. BENJAMIN YAO has always dreamed of rebuilding the Philippine steel industry. He continues to build towards this dream through his work in SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. (SteelAsia), the Philippines’ flagship steel firm and among the largest rebar manufacturers in Asia. |
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By Mark T. Amoguis Senior Researcher. NEWS on Jollibee Foods Corp.’s increased investment in the owner of the Asia Pacific master franchise for Tim Ho Wan drove market activity for the former’s stock last week. A total of 3.251 million Jollibee shares worth P714.269 million exchanged hands from Sept. |
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By Michael Angelo S. Murillo Senior Reporter. THE Far Eastern University Tamaraws began the second round of University Athletic Association of the Philippines Season 82 on a winning note, outlasting the University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons, 82-79, in overtime on Sunday at the Mall of Asia Arena. |
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Two years on, Asia is no closer to ending its worst refugee crisis in decades. Over 900,000 Rohingya are in Bangladesh alone, including the 759,000 who fled a campaign of violence by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state that began in August 2017. Hundreds of thousands had already left in earlier.... |
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By 1948, after the British had exited the subcontinent, there were four major countries in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. India is the only one of these countries that hasn’t seen a civil war since then. In at least two of these countries, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the decision to.... |
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MALAYSIA almost became an Asian tiger. But the 1990s’ financial crisis did us in. Not all is lost, though. Like the tiger in the wild, Malaysia is working on its vocal folds to claim its territory in Asia. As this newspaper frontpaged the story yesterday, this time around, Malaysia is reimagining the tiger by prospering everyone. |
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Wood raw-material costs for many lumber producers in Europe and North America have fallen over the past year both because of increased timber harvests and reduced log demand, particularly in North America and Asia . Some of the biggest price changes in the 1H/19 have been seen in the Western US, Central Europe and New Zealand. |
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Three Chinese vessels chased away a local fishing boat from area in South China Sea, according to Vietnamese media; Hanoi has been the main critic among Southeast Asian nations of Beijing’s assertiveness in maritime disputes
Singapore renews military bases pact with US amid deepening defence ties with China. |
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(Bloomberg) -- The hunt for yield is still on in emerging markets. And as that plays out, expect Asia to outperform. Those are the main findings of Bloomberg’s quarterly survey of 54 global investors, strategists and traders on their outlook for developing-nation assets. The trade dispute between the U. |
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