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Director of the UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific Haoliang Xu congratulated the SAV on the achievements it has obtained in recent years, saying the supreme audit office plays a crucial role in ensuring full transparency and accountability in the public sector of UN member states, which.... |
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Kathmandu, August 30. Health ministers of member countries of World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region are meeting in New Delhi next week to discuss ways of addressing health impact of climate change, burden of tuberculosis and emergency risk management. |
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We don’t know if they flew economy or business class but Eurasian tench first arrived in Canada wiggling around in a picnic cooler on a commercial flight from Germany in 1986. Intent on farming them as a food source, the brazen Quebec businessman lugging the 30 freshwater fish declared his illegal cargo at Canadian customs. |
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SEARCA Headquarters in Los Banos, Laguna. LOS BAŇOS, Laguna -- A joint agreement calling for reinvigorated efforts to effectively shield the agriculture sector from the devastation caused by natural calamities in the Southeast Asia region, was signed here Friday by key officials from the national.... |
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Source: The Holy See in the Italian. Headline: ASIA/PAKISTAN – to Implement equal rights for all citizens, including minorities.
Lahore : “The government should give policy priority to the strengthening of the rights of minorities by adopting a series of legal measures, policies and administrative.... |
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By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana* The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought. Yet heat is only part of the picture. |
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Aug. 31. By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend: The UN Special Program for the Aral Sea Basin (UN SPAS) was presented at the headquarters of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Trend reports referring to Turkmen Foreign Ministry. |
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He had an illustrious military career - joining the Royal Marines in 1990 aged 18 and becoming a member of the Special Boat Service, the naval equivalent of the SAS, in 1994. Afterwards, he worked privately in Iraq and spent a year rescuing children from sex trafficking camps in Southeast Asia, but admits he struggled with civilian life. |
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KARACHI: The port city has been orphaned and abandoned. Once it was considered the cleanliest city of Asia but now it the sixth most unlivable city in the world.
These views were expressed by speakers at a press conference on garbage situation in the city held by the Pakistan Women’s Foundation for.... |
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Asia’s biggest cities, from Shanghai to Dhaka, are struggling to manage the impact of decades of growth. Some are sinking. Most are traffic-choked. And almost all struggle with chronic air pollution. Worst of all, coastal cities face the threat of being inundated by rising seas. |
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North America and Europe are the leading regions in terms of overall demand for chemical sensors. The concerning pollution levels in China, India, and other Asia-Pacific countries are also driving the demand for chemical sensors. Low prices, flexible applications, and speedy technological.... |
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Across the planet, more than a billion tons of essential, nutritious, life-sustaining food goes to waste each year. It is being eaten by weevils in sub-Saharan Africa and inadvertently passed over by harvesters in the rice fields of Southeast Asia. It gets scraped into the trash in restaurants in.... |
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It's just as we suspected. India's economic heartbeat, aka GDP, fell to a seven-year low of 5 per cent for the quarter ended June 2019. If March quarter's 5.8 per cent growth pushed India behind China, Friday's data dispatch puts Asia's third-largest economy even behind the Philippines and Indonesia in terms of real growth rate. |
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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo is seeking to speed up the development of four priority tourist destinations across the country, as part of his administration's efforts to boost the country's tourism industry. |
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PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia's 62nd National Day celebrations kicked off in grand fashion on Saturday (Aug 31), with tens of thousands of peole gathered around Persiaran Perdana in Putrajaya to witness the annual parade. Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin and Queen,.... |
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KUALA LUMPUR : AirAsia Group Bhd today signed two major agreements with Airbus, covering the order of an additional 12 A330neo and 30 A321XLR aircraft for US$8.1 billion (RM34.2 billion), as well as a memorandum of agreement to support the development of the Malaysian aerospace industry. |
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India announced its most sweeping bank overhaul in decades, on Friday, minutes before data showed growth in Asia’s number three economy slumped to a six-year low. Four new lenders that result from a series of state-bank mergers will hold business worth 55.8 trillion-rupee (Dh2. |
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SINGAPORE - Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Dwaipayan Sadhu as its head of retail banking in Singapore, effective Sept 1, 2019. Based in Singapore, he will report to Patrick Lee, chief executive officer (CEO) of the bank in the Republic; and Sebastian Arcuri, regional head of retail banking for Asean and South Asia. |
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Five other Vietnamese firms in Forbes Asia’s latest listing of 200 top-performing Asia-Pacific listed companies with revenues of above $1 billion include food giant Masan Group; electronics retail giant Mobile World; Vietnam’s biggest brewer Sabeco; the country's biggest dairy company Vinamilk, and.... |
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BEIJING, NETRALNEWS.COM The competition to design the mascot of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, with 120,000 RMB prizes (IDR 246 million) is open to the general public from all over the world. "We invite participants from all over the world to participate in designing mascots," said a.... |
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JAKARTA, NETRALNEWS.COM - Aircraft maintenance and repair company PT Garuda Maintenance Facility Aero Asia Tbk (IDX:GMFI), also known as GMF AeroAsia, is ready to serve the needs of military aircraft. "This year, GMF has entered the MRO industry in the field of defense, for the maintenance of.... |
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Kathmandu has one of the fastest rates of urbanisation in South Asia, with an annual urbanisation rate of 3.94 percent . As the city expands, its tentacles spreading out and engulfing the surrounding hamlets, fields and forests, it wouldn’t be inaccurate to assume drastic changes are yet to come. |
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Under law, a bride has to select one of three options on the certificate -- whether she is Kumari (virgin), widow or divorced. 28 Aug 2019 2:15 PM.
The deficit increased to 8.9 per cent of Pakistan's gross domestic product in the year that ended in June. 28 Aug 2019 10:50 AM. |
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THERE IS a push in America to subscribe to a “no first use” policy on nukes , in a bid to reduce risks and anxiety. But could that actually make things less stable? We tour.... |
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