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A Dunedin resident is annoyed to find his sleepy suburban home, which he rented out to Airbnb guests while on holiday, was transformed into a busy brothel. The owner of the Northeast Valley home, who asked not to be named, told , his home was rented to two Chinese nationals for 14 days while he was holidaying in Asia for a month in July and August. |
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For decades, Hong Kong has thrived with its unique status, facilitating investment and trade between Asia and the West. Its airport, seaport, and railways link goods, services, and travelers to the Asia Pacific region for trade and commerce, with rising connectivity with mainland China. |
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The e-commerce market place recently secured seed funding to take its online platform, which has authentication built into its core, into the region. It needs to move fast, before major competitors such as US-based StockX and China's Poizon arrive.
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. Adam Harvey is the ABC's Middle East Correspondent, based in Beirut. He's a Walkley Award winning journalist and experienced foreign correspondent, having previously been posted to South-East Asia for the ABC and to the United States for Australia's News Limited publications. You can follow him on Twitter @adharves. |
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Singapore. ECONOMIC growth in South-east Asia is forecast to ease to 4.5 per cent this year from 5.1 per cent in 2018, before stabilising at the same rate of 4.5 per cent in 2020, British advisory firm Oxford Economics said on Thursday. The slowdown comes amid a fresh round of... |
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Singapore. MARKETS in Asia may have largely shrugged off the latest series of central bank measures that were widely expected, but the moves point to lingering fears of a global economic slowdown. In addition, market watchers are speculating that more monetary stimulus could be in store as economies.... |
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Singapore. EVEN as the region works on free trade agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), it must do so in a way that is not exclusive, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat at the Milken Institute Asia Summit on Thursday: "This is not going to be Fortress Asia. |
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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday, with Tokyo and Sydney logging modest gains after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year, citing slowing global economic growth and uncertainty over U. |
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For the past year INmune Bio Inc. was less bullish than Quanterix Corporation. Quanterix Corporation, a life sciences company, develops and markets ultra-sensitive digital immunoassay platform that advances precision health for life sciences research and diagnostics in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. |
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Career with BRAC International. BRAC is a development success story, spreading anti-poverty solutions born in Bangladesh to 11 other developing countries in Asia and Africa, making it a global leader in providing opportunities for the world’s poor. BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle.... |
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As well-to-do Bahamians check on the status of their beachside palatial estates, the poor residents find their makeshift homes on the outer islands in ruins from Hurricane Dorian . Whenever a major storm hits, it exposes the vast poverty and growing inequality. Recall the 2004 tsunami in South Asia. |
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NEW YORK Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- FITE, the leading digital streaming combat sports platform, announced today a new partnership with ONE Championship, the largest global sports media property in Asian history. Within this carriage deal, FITE will have international distribution rights in.... |
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Image copyright Gary Mueller, Macaulay Library at Cornell Lab of O Image caption North America has lost more than a quarter of its birds since 1970. Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies. The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US.... |
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Asia’s economies will charge ahead in coming decades, boosting their collective share of trade and capital flows while showing less reliance on the rest of the world, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute released yesterday. The continent will continue to have a growing global impact.... |
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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday, with Tokyo and Sydney logging modest gains after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year, citing slowing global economic growth and uncertainty over U. |
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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday, with Tokyo and Sydney logging modest gains after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year, citing slowing global economic growth and uncertainty over U. |
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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday, with Tokyo and Sydney logging modest gains after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year, citing slowing global economic growth and uncertainty over U. |
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Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday, with Tokyo and Sydney logging modest gains after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year, citing slowing global economic growth and uncertainty over U. |
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Commercialization of wheat with increased levels of fiber is the aim of a recent agreement between Arcadia Biosciences, Arista Cereal Technologies and the Bay State Milling Company. The wheat is expected to be commercialized in North America, Europe and parts of Asia. |
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Indonesia’s central bank (BI) slashed interest rates on September 19 for the third month in a row as Southeast Asia's biggest economy is affected by the US-China trade war and slow global growth.
Hanoi (VNA) – Indonesia’s central bank (BI) slashed interest rates on September 19 for the third month.... |
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Claim: Former president Ferdinand Marcos built the first airport in Asia, as part of his long list of achievements during his 20-year term. Social media monitoring tool CrowdTangle identified at least 6 Facebook pages and groups that shared the claim on the social media platform, with the oldest post dated August 2018. |
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Indonesian police said Thursday they have arrested 230 people suspected of starting some of the fires that are spreading health-damaging haze across a large part of Southeast Asia. Among those arrested are three men who were caught Monday while trying to clear land to plant crops in Tesso Nilo.... |
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BANGKOK — Shares opened higher in Europe on Thursday after a mixed session in Asia following the Federal Reserve's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate for a second time this year. Germany's DAX edged 0.1 percent higher to 12,406.82 while the FTSE 100 in Britain advanced 0.2 percent to 7,331.84. |
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