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Shanghai. PAYMENTS giant Visa plans to halve its global fraud rate by 2025, having been using artificial intelligence to prevent an estimated US$25 billion in fraud annually. Speaking at the Visa Asia-Pacific Security Summit 2019 held in Shanghai, Visa's group executive for Asia-... |
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Singapore. STARTUPS around Asia are set to springboard their businesses through Accelerating Asia's (AA) accelerator programme. Accelerating Asia, an independent startup accelerator headquartered in Singapore, unveiled the first 10 firms participating in its accelerator programme,... |
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Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi. THOUGH apparently, US’ new South Asian policy is reflective of the fact that Islamabad holds no significance in the eyes of tactical US policymakers, yet seen from an insightful perspective, it looks totally illogical that Washington could hibernate Pakistan’s importance in the long term. |
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NEW YORK -- Harley-Davidson is developing smaller motorcycles with a Chinese partner in an attempt to cultivate new markets as ridership in the U.S. and Europe stalls. The U.S. motorcycle maker announced Wednesday that it signed an agreement with Qianjiang Motorcycle, which will produce the new model at Qianjiang plants in China. |
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BANGKOK/JAKARTA -- Video streaming is king in smartphone-savvy Southeast Asia, and global heavyweights like Tencent Holdings and Netflix are battling along with regional tech companies over a burgeoning market set to expand into the tens of billions of dollars per year. |
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REUTERS: Apple Inc has asked its major suppliers to assess the cost implications of moving 15per cent-30per cent of their production capacity from China to Southeast Asia as it prepares for a restructuring of its supply chain, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report on Wednesday. Apple's request was a result of the extended Sino-U. |
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REUTERS: Apple Inc has asked its major suppliers to assess the cost implications of moving 15per cent-30per cent of their production capacity from China to Southeast Asia as it prepares for a restructuring of its supply chain, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report on Wednesday. Apple's request was a result of the extended Sino-U. |
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BANGKOK – Human rights groups demanded Southeast Asian governments on Wednesday protect the rights of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim community and urged safe conditions to be in place before their repatriation from refugee camps in Bangladesh. The call came ahead of this weekend’s 34th annual summit of.... |
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All four reservoirs that supply Chennai, known as the Detroit of South Asia for its flourishing automobile industry, have run dry this summer, largely because of poor monsoon rains last year.
Hotels in Chennai are rationing water for guests amid searing heat while companies limit showers as the city of 4. |
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From monitoring crops in South America to helping to preventing deforestation in Asia, space technology is a major export success story for Scotland. Not only does the sector sell satellites and associated software to the world’s space-exploring nations, the use of satellite data in a variety of.... |
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ISLAMABAD - Following years of tireless investigation, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that two recent temperature readings have been accepted among the hottest recorded on Earth. One of the scorching marks came from the Middle East, the other from South Asia. |
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LAHORE - Pakistan’s young and promising talent Rizwan brothers, Haider Ali Rizwan and Hasnain Ali Rizwan, have vowed to excel in the South Asia Regional Qualifying Event of ITF Asian 12&U Team Championship, to be played from June 23 to June 28 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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Asia’s 380-cst high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) front-month time spread hit a near seven-month high on Wednesday as tightening arbitrage flows into the Singapore trading and storage hub squeezed the near-term supply outlook, trade sources said. The tighter supply outlook has also been supported by.... |
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June 19, 2019, 8:21 pm Naleen Edirisinghe, DGM-Branch Credit accepting the award from Claudia Arce, chairperson of the Global Climate Partnership Fund. Also in the picture are Luke Franson-Head of Green Lending, GCPF and Nalaka Wijayawardana, DGM-Marketing, Cards & Deposit Mobilization. |
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June 19, 2019, 8:17 pm SriLankan Airlines has become the first customer in South Asia to sign a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the Skywise Health Monitoring (SHM) application from Airbus. Once deployed, SHM will save time and decrease the cost of unscheduled maintenance for the airline. |
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Facebook has created new maps of the Asia Pacific with an unprecedented level of detail about where people are living in an effort to help authorities better respond to natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
No personal Facebook data has been used to create the maps, which are aimed primarily at.... |
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Hotels in Chennai are rationing water for guests amid searing heat while companies limit showers as the city of 4.6mn faces its worst shortage in years. All four reservoirs that supply Chennai, known as the Detroit of south Asia for its flourishing automobile industry, have run dry this summer, largely because of poor monsoon rains last year. |
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For the past year Casa Systems Inc.’s stock price has bigger decline than Wireless Telecom Group Inc. Summary. Casa Systems Inc. beats Wireless Telecom Group Inc. on 9 of the 12 factors. Casa Systems, Inc. provides software-centric broadband products in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. |
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June 19, 2019. (Reuters) – Apple Inc has asked its major suppliers to assess the cost implications of moving 15%-30% of their production capacity from China to Southeast Asia as it prepares for a restructuring of its supply chain, according to a Nikkei Asian Review report on Wednesday. Apple’s request was a result of the extended Sino-U. |
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Playing hardball. Apple has reportedly asked each of its largest suppliers to evaluate the costs to shift between 15% and 30% of its production out of China to other countries in Southeast Asia, according to a report by the Nikkei Asian Review. The company made this request to Foxconn , Pegatron,.... |
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If we find a moment to raise our heads above the Brexit debate, we will see that the world around is changing fast. The global balance of power is tilting towards Asia, just at the moment that alliances in the West begin to fray. Rising powers are flexing their muscles and threatening to shake-up the international order. |
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Irvine, Calif., June 19, 2019 — The UCI Libraries are sponsoring an exhibit at the University of California, Irvine that highlights newly discovered U.S. archival materials on Korean “comfort women” – females forced into sexual slavery before and during World War II in Asian-occupied territories –.... |
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The Papua conflict, among the longest in Asia, has continued for over five decades, with many lives lost as well as material losses. A decade ago under Muridan Widjojo (now deceased), the Papua Research Team of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) published the Papua Roadmap: Negotiating the.... |
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UPDATED at 12:48 p.m. EDT on 2019-06-18. Manila will bring up Beijing's continued aggression in the South China Sea when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Thailand later this week, Philippine officials said Tuesday, a week after a Chinese ship rammed a Filipino fishing boat in the disputed maritime region. |
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OTTAWA -- Canada is eager to bring its abundant natural gas to Asian markets and reduce its reliance on U.S. buyers, Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi told Nikkei. In an interview in the Canadian capital Ottawa, Sohi named Japan, China and India as potential destinations once Canada begins.... |
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