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The Daily Star has won a gold and a bronze at the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2020, presented by WAN-IFRA (the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers). The newspaper won gold in the category "Best Special Project for Covid-19" and bronze in "Best in Audience Engagement". |
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Three Bangladeshi publicly traded companies - Square Pharmaceuticals, Renata and Fortune Shoes - have been listed in the Forbes ‘Asia’s Best Under a Billion 2020’ list. The list recognises 200 top-performing small and midsized publicly traded companies in the Asia Pacific region with sales under $1 billion. |
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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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During the meeting of representatives of ARIN-WCA member states which was held on November 17-19, Iran for the first time became member of strategic committee of the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network in West and Central Asia. According to UNODC website, Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Networks (ARINs).... |
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Almost half of the population in Central Asia is not digitally connected, missing out on employment opportunities, falling behind in learning and not receiving adequate healthcare, said World Bank representatives during an online briefing on “COVID-19 and the Digital Divide in Central Asia” today. |
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A proposed project of Chattogram Wasa set to withdraw 14 crore litres of water from the Halda river daily for an economic zone poses serious threat to the unique water body, the lone breeding ground for natural spawning of carp fish in South Asia. The agency has already been extracting 18 crore.... |
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The International Press Institute (IPI) and five South Asian media organisations on Thursday launched a cross-border cooperation to highlight attacks on journalists and create public awareness and influence policymakers to end impunity for crimes against journalists in the region. |
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The policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are having a significant impact on the cost of trading goods across borders. Despite measures taken by many countries to keep goods moving across borders, research at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) reveals.... |
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Also supporting the mood were statements from both China and the United States saying top-level trade representatives had held constructive talks over the |
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Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, must be crazy, literally. Or just a blind twit, like so many others in the “Western” establishment of lily-white bigots, racists and Christian imperialists. The king of them though happens to be Mike Pompeo, the soon to depart Secretary of State in the U.S. |
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The 38th general assembly of World Crafts Council for Asia and Oceania was held online on December 4-5. Addressing the meeting, Mahmoudian presented a report of the most important measures, activities and programs of Iran which have been taken in time of COVID-19 pandemic. |
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A migratory bird typically only seen in Central Asia and South Asia, but never before sighted in Taiwan, was spotted in Tainan, a local bird-watchers’ group said on Friday. A steppe gray shrike, Lanius pallidirostris , photographed by a bird-watcher surnamed Yang (楊) near the city’s border with.... |
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The Asia Cup 2020 had to postponed due to the Covid 19 pandemic.Pakistan was scheduled to host the Asia Cup but the PCB CEO Wasim Khan said the tournament will be hosted by Sri Lanka in 2021 while Pakistan will play host of it in 2022. Sri Lanka have the rights to hold Asia Cup in 2021. |
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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government today said the US State Department’s decision to terminate visits to Hong Kong under a longstanding programme is short-sighted and premised on false assumptions. The Hong Kong Cultural & Exchange Programme has been running for many years and.... |
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The Hospital Authority today announced that two patients at Pok Oi Hospital have tested preliminary positive for COVID-19. Thorough cleansing and disinfection have been arranged for the wards concerned. A 79-year-old male patient who has underlying disease was sent to the hospital by ambulance at noon on December 4 due to dizziness. |
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The new cases were quarantined right after their arrival, the committee added. It further said Vietnam has had 1,220 COVID-19 patients successful treated, and the fatalities remain at 35. Among those still under treatment, five tested negative once for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease, four twice and two thrice. |
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The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating 101 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 92 are locally transmitted. Among the locally transmitted cases, 29 have unknown sources of infection and 63 are linked with previous cases, of which 18 are related to the dance club cluster and.... |
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TEHRAN - Stefano Cusin, Italian-Canadian football coach and former coach of Shahr Khodro, left the Iran Professional League (IPL) at the end of last season but he still follows the country’s football and believes that IPL is the best league across Asia. |
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MANILA, Philippines JLL has been recognized as the Property Management Team of the Year at the annual RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Awards 2020 Southeast Asia. Showcasing the most inspirational initiatives and developments in land, real estate, construction and infrastructure in.... |
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MANILA, Philippines Learning outcomes of Grade 5 students showed that a large number of Filipino learners are not proficient enough in reading, writing and math to advance to secondary school, a Southeast Asia-wide study showed, according to Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian. |
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A security guard takes the temperature of clients entering a shopping center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on May 25, 2020. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP)
Kyrgyzstan on Saturday announced that citizens of all countries would be allowed to enter the Central Asian country, lifting border restrictions it had instituted at the start of the pandemic in the spring. |
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Image of the week: Fall of Arcadia. In an echo of a trend seen in parts of Asia at the start of the Covid-19 crisis, a mannequin in a central London fashion outlet has been thoughtfully accessorised with a face-mask. This mannequin’s problems go beyond a mere pandemic, however, as this is the window of the flagship Topshop store on Oxford Street. |
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The Leisure & Cultural Services Department today said that a library staff has tested positive for COVID-19. The patient worked on the 9th floor of Fa Yuen Street Municipal Services Building in Yau Tsim Mong District and performed support duties without contacting members of the public. |
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Government expresses regret over US State Department decision to terminate exchange visits Government expresses regret over US State Department decision to terminate exchange visits A US State Department decision to terminate visits to Hong Kong under a long-standing programme is short-sighted and.... |
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A recent study on Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) in Asia and Africa has found that the dangerous pest species had multiple episodes of invasion in India, particularly Kerala, and that new snail populations continue to arrive in India from snail-infested countries across the world. |
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