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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Washington isn't asking any Asian nation to take sides as it engages with the region where China is battling for influence and aggressively expanding territorial claims in the South China Sea. Pompeo hailed an Indo-Pacific engagement framework.... |
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Asian factory activity contracted further in July, fueling worries that a Sino-U.S. trade war and a slowdown in China could tilt the world toward a global recession, which central banks will have to fight with depleted ammunition. Purchasing Managers' Indexes (PMI) showed manufacturing activity.... |
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Jia Wang, deputy director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, said there are cultural differences in how toilets are used. "It's more of an Asia thing, but not just Asia," she said. "A lot of other countries have this as well." Wang said seat toilets are becoming more common in.... |
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(Bloomberg) -- A fresh salvo in the U.S.-China trade war from President Donald Trump roiled financial markets a day after the Federal Reserve delivered the first interest-rate cut in a decade in part to combat the spat’s effects on global growth. The S&P 500 saw the biggest two-day drop since May,.... |
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Borders in Central Asia have long been a problem. They were drawn by the Soviet government in the 1920s as part of its nation-building effort to divide the communities of the region and these administrative lines changed many times over the ensuing decades. |
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HELSINKI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- The profit of the major Finnish forest industry company Metsa Group worsened remarkably in April-July, the company revealed on Thursday. The result was 128 million euros (142 million U.S. dollars), while last year in Q2 was 210 million. |
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Southeast Asian nations Thursday to speak out against what he called “Chinese coercion” in the South China Sea, although he emphasized that Washington was not asking them to “choose” between the United States and Beijing. |
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Second from left: Celine Chua, American Express Singapore vice-president and general manager, global commercial services; Geoff Begg, senior vice-president and general manager, global commercial services Asia Pacific, Amex; Campbell Wilson, senior vice-president, sales and marketing, Singapore.... |
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Cargoes of liquefied natural gas are trading in Asia below $4 per million British thermal units for the first time in several years, as new supply floods the global pool and as demand from North Asia remains weak, industry sources said. The last time a cargo traded below $4 was likely about three to.... |
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Following the seizure of the oil tanker ‘Stena Impero’ on 19 July, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the Asian Shipowners’ Association (ASA) jointly urge immediate action by the international community to stop the escalation of tensions and fully respect international law. |
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A type of tumor that can pass between dogs is showing researchers how cancer cells evolve. (Credit: Jess Wealleans/Shutterstock) Thousands of years ago in Asia, a dog got cancer. A single cell underwent a mutation that turned it into the beginnings of a tumor. The dog eventually died, but not before passing on a unique legacy: its cancer cells. |
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Bangkok (AFP) - China urged non-Asian nations to avoid sowing "distrust" and division over contested seas Wednesday in a swipe at the US shortly before its top diplomat was due to arrive at a Bangkok summit bearing a message of reinvigorated American trade and security engagement in the region. |
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AMMAN — Regional experts have recently gathered in Amman to promote cooperation in the deployment of green technologies, according to a UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) statement. The meeting, titled “Green Technology Transfer, Adaptation and Investment Required for.... |
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For thousands of young women who receive a diagnosis of cervical dysplasia, the decision on how to proceed can be uncertain, confusing, and difficult. In the majority of cases, moderate cervical dysplasia (also called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2, CIN2) will resolve itself, but some of these women will go on to develop cervical cancer. |
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In 2013, Burry reopened his hedge fund. Based in Cupertino, California, Scion Asset Management had assets under management around $263.23 million as of March 26. The latest quarterly filing, reporting holdings as of March 31, valued the long U.S.-listed equity portfolio at $98 million. |
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Readers hoping to buy Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust SGX:RW0U ) for its dividend will need to make their move shortly, as the stock is about to trade ex-dividend. This means that investors who purchase shares on or after the 5th of August will not receive the dividend, which will be paid on the 27th of August. |
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LOWER SUSSEX, Del. — Pitcher Madalyne Martinez held back the Asia Pacific bats and paved the way for District 9’s 4-2 victory in pool play on Wednesday at the Senior League Softball World Series.
Meanwhile, Beronica DeLosRios fueled the offense for the District 9 All Stars, a squad made up of.... |
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BANGKOK, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- China and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed here Wednesday to forge closer ties at the China-ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at the meeting that ASEAN and ASEAN-led.... |
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Jul.29 -- Tencent has lined up another high-profile partnership, teaming up with Qualcomm to work on mobile gaming devices. Bloomberg’s Ian King reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia. |
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Honorio Banario made some adjustments in his preparations as he takes on a Korea’s “Crazy Dog” Dae Sung Park in ONE: Dawn of Heroes at Mall of Asia Arena Friday. The former ONE featherweight champion was supposed to fight Timofey Natsyukhin in the semifinals of the ONE Lightweight tournament Grand Prix, but Natsyukhin bailed out due to injury. |
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Huge entourages, heavy security and demands for the sort of police protection normally reserved for heads of state -- European soccer teams jetting across Asia leave nothing to chance, but sometimes run into problems anyway. The money-spinning pre-season tours are a far cry from 30 years ago, when.... |
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The optimism after the third Trump-Kim summit at Panmunjom quickly evaporated.
By Ankit Panda and Prashanth Parameswaran
The Diplomat ‘s Ankit Panda ( ) and Prashanth Parameswaran ( @TheAsianist ) discuss recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, including North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s.... |
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© Ahn Young-Joon/AP A TV screen shows an image of a North Korean missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on July 26. A day after two North Korean missile launches rattled Asia, the nation said Friday that t had tested a "new-type tactical guided weapon" that was.... |
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Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, will meet 10 southeast Asian countries in Thailand on Wednesday as the UK government prepares to leave the EU and strengthen ties with countries around the world. On his first visit overseas since taking office last week, Mr Raab will meet with foreign.... |
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Authorities in Costa Rica and Panama arrested 46 people this Tuesday in a joint operation to break up a criminal organization in their two countries that has been trafficking migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Africa and Asia. Costa Rican authorities said they have carried out 36 simultaneous raids in.... |
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