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Health officials disinfect the desks as a precaution against the coronavirus for the upcoming college entrance exams in a classroom at a high school in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. About 490,000 high school seniors and graduates across the country are expected to take the College Scholastic Ability Test on Thursday, Dec. |
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Namaskar At the outset, I would like to thank Smt. Kunda Mahurkar, National Chairperson, SPIC MACAY, for inviting me to speak as the Chief Guest at the 'Global Heritage Series' on the essence of spreading Indian and world heritage. I also wish to convey my greetings to Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia ji, Smt. |
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In the first such cross-border media collaboration in South Asia, five news organisations have partnered with The International Press Institute (IPI) to investigate and document attacks on journalists in the region. — AP/File.
KARACHI: In the first such cross-border media collaboration in South.... |
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Thai officials saw a profit and put them in villages designed for maximum tourist visibility instead of special camps.
Odachi wants to remind Japan that before its modern success came the sacrifices of the young pilots who gave their lives.
A year after massive protests against Chinese control.... |
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The pandemic has hit India's labour market hard. Lockdowns in Asia's third-largest economy have shuttered businesses, triggered a mass exodus of labourers from big metropolises, and forced the corporate sector to scale back drastically amid the continued economic uncertainty. |
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Western Asia. Western Asia West Asia Southwestern Asia or Southwest Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia . The concept is in limited use, as it significantly overlaps with the (or Near East ), the main difference being the exclusion of Egypt (which would be counted as part of The term is.... |
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SEOUL — South Korea will host a meeting of an international organization for railway cooperation across Europe and Asia next year, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Saturday. The 49th annual ministers’ meeting of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD) will be held.... |
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The first doses are set to be administered on December 8, with the National Health Service (NHS) giving top priority to vaccinating the over-80s, frontline healthcare workers and care home staff and residents. Britain gave emergency use approval for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech last.... |
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THE UK government simultaneously hosted the 26th Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Energy Transition Council meeting online in three groups including Africa regions, Asian countries and the countries with economic transitions on 4 December. |
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KUALA LUMPUR – As more countries in Southeast Asia make strides towards embracing the global energy transition, PETRONAS has called for a stronger collaboration amongst ASEAN governments, energy players as well as the public and private sectors to collectively leverage on each other’s strengths in achieving a sustainable, low-carbon future. |
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MANILA, Philippines—Finland reopened its embassy in Manila after almost a decade in apparent recognition of the importance of Asia in world economy and geopolitics. Finnish Ambassador Juha Markus Pyykkö was among the seven new ambassadors welcomed by President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (Dec. 2) in Malacañang. |
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Gilas Pilipinas coach Jong Uichico said that if he could have it his way he would consider forming a mixture of professional and amateur players for Window 3 of the FIBA Asia Cup qualifying tournament next year. Uichico, who mentored the national team to a 2-0 record in Window 2 of the qualifiers.... |
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By Amit Sinha New Delhi, Dec 4 (UNI) Natural gas supplies to the People’s Republic of China have helped drive Central Asia’s economic growth for the last decade. For no country is this more true than for Turkmenistan: over 90 percent of Turkmenistan’s total exports is natural gas exports to China. |
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An enduring mystery of the Covid-19 pandemic is why East Asian countries across the board have experienced far fewer cases and deaths than the U.S. and Europe. Some doctors and scientists are beginning to take a closer look at theories that some people in East Asia and Southeast Asia have had.... |
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After implementing tighter restrictions on December 5, the government is to decide on December 6 whether to impose new measures in a country that had seen initial success through aggressive contact tracing and other steps. The new cases bring the country’s tally to 37,546, with 545 deaths, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported. |
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Asia Xinhua: China Removes All Remaining Counties From Poverty List NOV 26, 2020 ASIA.
Australia War crimes report alleges elite Australian soldiers executed Afghan ci... NOV 19, 2020 AUSTRALIA. |
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After implementing tighter restrictions on December 5, the government is to decide on December 6 whether to impose new measures in a country that had seen initial success through aggressive contact tracing and other steps. The new cases bring the country’s tally to 37,546, with 545 deaths, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported. |
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* Manchester City climbed into the Premier League top four after first-half goals from Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne secured a comfortable 2-0 home win over struggling Fulham on Saturday. * Everton were held to a 1-1 draw at Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday after Dominic Calvert-Lewin.... |
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“Oh, absolutely. I said yes right on the spot,” Fauci told NBC’s “Today” in an interview. The confirmation came a day after Biden disclosed he has asked Fauci to be his chief medical adviser and part of his administration’s COVID-19 response team. “I asked him to stay on the exact same role he has.... |
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"Although we are seeing a number of companies announcing global refinery rationalisations or shutdowns - in Europe, the US and at some scale in Asia - we still see opportunities in certain geographies," stated Nasser. "We expect more than half the world’s new refining capacity that will come on.... |
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A technology company at the Science Park has developed a compact little robot called Rice that is proving useful during these times of social distancing. It can deliver documents and food automatically, as long as the destination address is input properly. Rice can navigate through different floors of a building, even using the lift by itself. |
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Indian Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh has pitched for a third aircraft carrier with the Narendra Modi government calling it a necessity in the current security environment in Asia. Given that an aircraft carrier takes 18 years to build also keeping in mind the cabinet approval, as in the case of.... |
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Prince Fahd bin Jalawi bin Abdul Aziz was recently appointed president of the West Asian Triathlon Federation (WATF). The federation’s general assembly on Friday recommended the prince, who is vice president of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee (SAOC), president of the Saudi Triathlon Federation.... |
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SYDNEY Asian shares firmed toward recent peaks on Monday as Chinese markets swung higher, while investors waited to see if the recent sell-off in longer-dated |
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(Bloomberg) — Asia’s biggest oil importers are testing the waters in the hope that the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will set the stage for a resumption in crude oil exports from Iran and Venezuela. Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said this week the country would.... |
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Markfed, which is one of the Asia's largest marketing cooperative federation is in the field of honey’s marketing for the past two decades. With several big companies having failed the ‘honey purity’ test conducted by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through a laboratory in.... |
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