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Before a planned trip to the U.S., Cheng wanted to get vaccinated against COVID-19. To do so, he asked a friend working at a cold-chain logistics company in southeast China to pretend he was employed by the firm, allowing Cheng access to one of the country’s experimental shots. |
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SINGAPORE -- Governments across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are moving to impose more taxes on digital companies, stirring unease among multinational internet businesses that have boomed amid the coronavirus pandemic. From Thailand to Indonesia, new levies have kicked in or are being introduced. |
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The analyst said currently, India and Australia are the only Asia Pacific countries where renewable power already costs lower than new-build coal. It predicted the trend would spread to the entire region by the end of the decade, while India and Australia would see renewables becoming further cheaper than coal. |
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Moscow: China's Xi Jinping did it. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan did it. Leaders across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific also have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden. But even as Washington moves on with the delayed presidential transition, Russian President Vladimir Putin has held back on well-wishes to Biden. |
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Asian markets drifted Friday as investors took their feet off the pedal after rallying for the past month on vaccine optimism and easing US political uncertainty. Hopes are high that with at least three inoculations close to being rolled out, life can begin to get back to normal next year and give a much-needed boost to the battered global economy. |
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People visit the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 13, 2019. (Xinhua/U Aung) YANGON, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Yangon is Myanmar's largest city and economic center. It is an important gateway and window to Myanmar, which has seen an increasing influx of foreign tourists and investors in recent years. |
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Swiss Pavilion participates for the 4th consecutive time at the Singapore event. SINGAPORE - - 27 November 2020 - Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) and the Swiss Business Hub ASEAN said today that their Swiss delegation will participate at this year's Singapore FinTech Festival 2020 through its digital Swiss Pavilion. |
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Ninety-Percent of Workers with Children Under Age Six Require Flexible Work Measures to Balance Work and Life. TAIPEI Nov. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese Taipei won the 2020 APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies (HWHE) Research Prize since its inauguration in 2019. |
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By Dr. Rommel C. Banlaoi* On 15 November 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, all members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with five of its strategic partners, namely China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.... |
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By Saji Thomas. Police are investigating a violent attack on indigenous Christian villagers in India’s Chhattisgarh state in which 15 persons were injured, four of them seriously. The seriously injured have been admitted to a government hospital and the rest were discharged after receiving first aid following the Nov. |
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By Felix Imonti. With twenty percent of the world’s population, China has only seven percent of the fresh water. Yet the country controls crucial fresh water sources needed by three billion people in Asia. And it will not share it. As Chinese troops swept into Korea in 1950, Mao Zedong was seizing.... |
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* Graphic: Foreign flows into Asian stocks https://tmsnrt.rs/3lKhL5I * Thai stocks eye best month since Jan. 2001 * India's GDP for the September quarter due at 1200 GMT By Shruti Sonal Nov 27 (Reuters) - Emerging Asian stock markets were mixed in subdued trading on Friday... |
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PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - By-elections will be held simultaneously in the Gerik parliamentary ward in Perak and Bugaya state seat in Sabah. Election Commission (EC) chairman Abdul Ghani Salleh said on Friday (Nov 27) that nomination day for both by-elections would be on Jan 4, with early voting on Jan 12, polling on Jan 16. |
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Taipei: Taiwan and the US are moving ahead with a plan to finance infrastructure and energy projects in Asia and Latin America as a way to provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative. The informal US-led alliance would use capital raised from the private sector to provide greater.... |
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(marketscreener.com) Indian shares were flat on Friday, ahead of GDP data that is likely to show Asia's third-largest economy entered a recession in the September quarter in a coronavirus-induced slump. https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/index/SENSEX-30-7426/news/Sensex-Nifty-flat-ahead-of-GDP-data.... |
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Australian government has confirmed support for Southeast Asian countries, including Cambodia, to have access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.
The information was shared by Ambassador Pablo Kang during a meeting with Minister of Health Mam Bunheng here recently. |
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This upcoming will be a penumbral lunar eclipse, and it will grace the skies in many parts of the world, especially North and South America, Australia, and parts of Asia. What is a penumbral lunar eclipse? Earth’s shadow is composed of two components—a dark inner circle where all of the sunlight is.... |
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Nov.26 — Mitul Kotecha, senior emerging markets strategist at TD Securities, discusses the outlook for Asian currencies and the dollar. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and David Ingles on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia. |
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Microsoft has always been a software company, and its major push towards being a product-independent company under CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership has also been very well documented. Despite that, Microsoft’s Xbox gaming business has still been rather tied to its console hardware for the most part — and for obvious reasons. |
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for 2021. The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) secured a spot on the list at 76. This year’s ranking of the top Asian universities features 650 institutions, making it the biggest Asia ranking ever published. As many as 39 other universities from Pakistan also have made it to the ranking. |
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Taipei: Taiwan and the US are moving ahead with a plan to finance infrastructure and energy projects in Asia and Latin America as a way to provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative. The informal US-led alliance would use capital raised from the private sector to provide greater.... |
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Taipei: Taiwan and the US are moving ahead with a plan to finance infrastructure and energy projects in Asia and Latin America as a way to provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative. The informal US-led alliance would use capital raised from the private sector to provide greater.... |
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A survey conducted by the Transparency International (TI) has found that India has the highest rate of bribery in the region.
The results of the survey – the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Asia -showed that India also had the highest rate of people using personal connections to access public services. |
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Taipei: Taiwan and the US are moving ahead with a plan to finance infrastructure and energy projects in Asia and Latin America as a way to provide an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative. The informal US-led alliance would use capital raised from the private sector to provide greater.... |
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Asian shares stalled near record highs on Friday as investors weighed renewed doubts about a highly-anticipated coronavirus vaccine against hopes that some of the region's economies will recovery quicker than their Western peers. |
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English Situation Report on Afghanistan and 22 other countries about Agriculture, Coordination, Epidemic and more; published on 27 Nov 2020 by IOM |
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