MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases. |
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MY mother Yu Yu Williamson, who died at the age of 68 from blood cancer, was a dedicated human rights campaigner who fought for two decades to raise awareness of the persecution of religious and minority groups in China, including the imprisonment, torture and execution of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, House Christians and Tibetans. |
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By Humeyra Pamuk and David Brunnstrom. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A warm welcome and expressions of solidarity against China likely await U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next week when he visits East Asia for the first time in over a year, but the looming U.S. |
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NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (Oct 3) opened a Himalayan tunnel that will drastically reduce the time needed to rush troops to the country's remote Chinese border as tensions grow between the Asian neighbours. The tunnel traverses India's northern Himachal.... |
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VGP - With a tech-led recovery and consistent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, Viet Nam’s economy is set to rebound strongly by 8.1% in 2021, according to HSBC’s latest report titled “Asia Economics: It's About Stamina”.
Accordingly, Viet Nam is the only ASEAN economy where HSBC continues to forecast positive growth this year. |
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PHNOM PENH -- Preparations are underway for a China-backed expansion at Cambodia Ream Naval Base, a facility the U.S. fears will be transformed to host Chinese military assets. A top Royal Cambodian Navy official told Nikkei Asia on Saturday that the Chinese government was supporting a project to.... |
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Many agricultural waste residues are generated in Southeast Asia while some areas in the region still do not have electricity. This study explores the potential effective utilization of agricultural residues in Southeast Asia to generate power. Firstly, visualization of the potential for energy.... |
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The US announced it’s opening a trade investigation into Vietnam’s currency policy to determine whether an undervalued dong hurts American businesses. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced the so-called 301 case late Friday in Washington, which will also target the Asian country’s import of illegal timber. |
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The first World Expo in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region runs from 1 October 2021 until 31 March 2022 and will bring together more than 190 countries to explore new ideas, form new connections and collectively tackle some of the greatest global challenges of our time. |
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For millennia, the Himalayas have not only been our protector but also a region touched by three of the major linguistic, racial, and cultural dividing lines of Asia. The valleys of this great mountain range have been inhabited by people speaking Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages, by.... |
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases. |
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state have continued to show improvement but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases on Saturday. |
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Melbourne’s latest 14-day average stood at 12 cases, and there have been 11 cases with an unknown source in the past two weeks up to Wednesday. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said a recent outbreak linked to southeast Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre showed why it was unsafe to ease restrictions. |
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Asia Today: Victoria premier concerned over mall outbreak |
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Beijing – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vow to snuff out emissions by 2060 completes a diplomatic pirouette that moves China to the heart of the global green agenda, wrong-foots the U.S. and cuddles up to Europe’s climate advocates in one nimble step. The Chinese leader last month chose the U.N. |
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“Like its neighbouring countries, Vietnam’s economy has been struggling after months of fighting against the pandemic. It is nonetheless still an outlier given its effective response to the COVID-19 outbreak, with impressive growth. Therefore, its economy is expected to witness positive signals soon.... |
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— South Korea’s daily coronavirus tally has remained in double digits for a third straight day, as authorities called for vigilance during one of the country’s biggest holidays. The 75 cases added in the past 24 hours took the country’s total to 24,027 with 420 deaths. |
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— South Korea’s daily coronavirus tally has remained in double digits for a third straight day, as authorities called for vigilance during one of the country’s biggest holidays. The 75 cases added in the past 24 hours took the country’s total to 24,027 with 420 deaths. |
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Nikos Tsafos. The bottom line: Major suppliers cut production in response to historically weak prices, and those cuts helped prop up prices, more so in Europe and Asia than in the United States. Unlike in oil, this adjustment happened without any coordination among major suppliers and without major.... |
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Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gavin Haley has teamed up with rising K-R&B artist SOLE to release an Asia-exclusive rework of his hypnotic hit “ The Way I Am” . Fans in Asia can listen to this version of the song one month before it becomes available worldwide, stream it here: ffm. |
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WASHINGTON--U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Asia next week demonstrates Washington's strong commitment to allies and partners in the region, the top American diplomat for East Asia, David Stilwell, said on Friday. Pompeo said earlier on Friday he would go ahead with the trip to Japan,.... |
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IN ITS bid to learn the best practices in holding elections amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to closely coordinate with its fellow election management bodies in neighboring countries. In a statement, Comelec Chairman Sheriff Abas said.... |
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— South Korea’s daily coronavirus tally has remained in double digits for a third straight day, as authorities called for vigilance during one of the country’s biggest holidays. The 75 cases added in the past 24 hours took the country’s total to 24,027 with 420 deaths. |
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In a briefing call on the trip for reporters, Stilwell said the United States saw the decision by new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to host Pompeo as a reaffirmation of an ever-strengthening partnership. Stilwell said a ministerial meeting of the “Quad” grouping of the United States, Japan,.... |
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MELBOURNE – The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases. The figures take the state toll to 805 and the national death count to 893. |
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