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(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks are poised for a firmer open Tuesday after a surge in technology stocks led U.S. gains. The Chinese yuan extended its decline following steps to curtail its rally. Futures indicated more modest gains in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong than on Wall Street where technology leaders including Amazon. |
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Artificial intelligence could add US$366 billion to Indonesia’s gross domestic product in the next decade and almost $1 trillion in added GDP across Southeast Asia, a recent study has shown. The study by consulting firm Kearney and Singapore-based investment firm EDBI says that 80 percent of.... |
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Singapore. US-BASED Owl Ventures is seeing growing appetite from South-east Asian investors for education technology (edtech), both for attractive returns and as a form of impact investing, the firm's managing director Ian Chiu and operating adviser Ilaria Chan told The Business Times.... |
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AQUATICS. Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in Madrid from Feb. 14-16: China team withdrew. Diving World Series in Beijing from March 7-9 canceled. Men´s Water Polo World League from March 12 postponed. Women´s Water Polo World League from March 12 postponed. |
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The Qualifiers heading to Qatar begin next Thursday, October 8. The Peruvian Selection He carries on his shoulders the responsibility of being one of the 32 casts that will visit Asia at the end of 2022, so he needs all the support of his fans to accomplish the feat once again. |
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Gebrüder Weiss opens a new representative office for air and sea freight services in Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand’s South Island, on October 12, 2020. This is the second location, after Auckland, that the globally active transport and logistics service provider has opened this year.... |
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China has successfully built up priceless relations characterized by mutual respect and common values with the Southeast Asian countries. It is due to its rich, modern and multilateral foreign policy of peace, commerce, and generosity that many nations are predictably – and justifiably – not keen to.... |
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Asia-Pacific countries including Singapore, Australia and Japan are gradually easing some international travel restrictions as coronavirus cases slow, in hopes of helping to revive their economies. International travel in Asia has collapsed during the pandemic due to border closures, with passenger.... |
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, and then Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe attend the East Asia Summit in Bangkok on November 4, 2019. Japan has long-standing ties with Southeast Asia, and those ties are likely to continue growing with the region’s centrality in the notion of the Indo-Pacific. |
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It is an undeniable fact that South Asia is changing in ways that would not have been imaginable just a few years ago and Pakistan, along with China, is the main driver of this change. That is primarily because Pakistan is China’s main partner at a time when the Middle Kingdom is using a strategy.... |
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Asia-Pacific countries including Singapore, Australia and Japan are gradually easing some international travel restrictions as coronavirus cases slow, in hopes of helping to revive their economies.
International travel in Asia has collapsed during the pandemic due to border closures, with passenger.... |
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AQUATICS. Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in Madrid from Feb. 14-16: China team withdrew. Diving World Series in Beijing from March 7-9 canceled. Men’s Water Polo World League from March 12 postponed. Women’s Water Polo World League from March 12 postponed. |
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iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (Nasdaq: ICLK) was founded in 2009, headquartered in Hong Kong, and listed on Nasdaq in 2017 under ticker ICLK. The company operates as an independent online marketing technology platform that possesses omni-channel marketing capabilities, and is a provider of.... |
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* Graphic: World FX rates tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh * Graphic: Foreign flows into Asian stocks tmsnrt.rs/3lKhL5I * Yuan falls after PBOC removes reserves for forward trading * Rising COVID-19 cases weigh on Malaysian stocks * Indonesian stocks gain on easing of coronavirus curbs By Shriya Ramakrishnan Oct.... |
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NEW DELHI -- Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced new measures to boost domestic demand by about 730 billion rupees ($9.95 billion) as Asia's third largest economy continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic, including extra capital spending on infrastructure projects and festival season schemes for government employees. |
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. The writer is a distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance.
Everything is happening so fast that we feel as if the future is being compressed into the present at frightening speed. |
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Last week, I wrote in this column how thankful we are in the government for the high trust and approval ratings that the Filipino people gave to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the latest Pulse Asia Survey. According to Pulse Asia, the President’s rating of 91 percent for both trust and performance.... |
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Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Europe and Central Asia need an integrated package of financial and non-financial instruments to help them adapt to the twin challenges of COVID-19 and accelerated digitalization, according to the panel for the recent GMIS Digital Series webinar, Taras.... |
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - China and Cambodia signed a free trade agreement on Monday as China’s foreign minister visited Phnom Penh as part of a four-nation Southeast Asian tour. China’s foreign ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make official visits this week to Cambodia,.... |
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Investors growing wary over upcoming earnings reports have been cashing in recent gains, helping pull Japanese shares lower. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.3% to finish at 23,558.69. Big exporters logged some of the largest losses, with Toyota Motor Corp. falling 0.8% and Honda Motor Co. shedding 1. |
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China’s foreign ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make official visits this week to Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos and Thailand, along with a transit visit to Singapore.
Cambodia is Beijing’s most loyal ally in the region, and its economic growth has depended on aid and investment from China. |
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HONG KONG Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited ("iClick" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ICLK), an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider in China , today announced that it has increased its controlling interest in Changyi ( Shanghai ) Information Technology Co. |
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — China and Cambodia signed a free trade agreement on Monday as China's foreign minister visited Phnom Penh as part of a four-nation Southeast Asian tour. China’s foreign ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make official visits this week to Cambodia,.... |
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CAIRO 12 October 2020: Minister of International Cooperation Rania al-Mashat that Egypt was ranked the first place in the Middle East and West Asia regions for taking 21 measures to support women during the Coronavirus pandemic period. Al-Mashat's comments came while marking the International Day of the Girl Child, which falls on October 11. |
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TIANJIN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ice Cream China 2020, Asia's biggest ice cream fair, opened on Monday in north China's Tianjin Municipality, attracting more than 300 companies and over 10,000 buyers. The three-day exhibition, covering an area of over 30,000 square meters, showcases a wide range of.... |
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