Vientiane (AsiaNews) In Laos Christians can practise their faith more or less freely in the capital Vientiane and in the larger cities, not so in rural areas where they face discrimination and persecution from other Laotians, often with the support of local authorities. |
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SHANGHAI Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 24, 2020 , 111, Inc. ("111" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YI), a leading digital healthcare platform dedicating to digitally connecting patients with drugs and healthcare services in China , hosted its 3rd annual China Online Healthcare Summit and.... |
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CHONGQING, China Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On 24 September, Chongqing Jiangxiaobai Liquor Co. Ltd. raised series C financing. The investment was led by China Renaissance New Economies Fund, Baillie Gifford, Loyal Valley Capital, followed by CMB International Capital, Kunyan Investment and Wens Investment. |
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WENCHANG, China Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Wenchang Convergence Media Center, on September 30 , the live streaming activity - "Breakfast in Thousands of Cities, A Bite of Wenchang" under the theme of "Fall in Love with a City" was held in Wenchang, a famous hometown of overseas.... |
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HONG KONG Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Quality of product or service' is now identified by most consumers in mainland China (66%) and Hong Kong (67%) as the top attribute when making a purchase, surpassing 'value for money' which was the most important purchase driver at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a KPMG global survey. |
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TEL AVIV, Israel Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading AI chipmaker Hailo announced today the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-performance AI acceleration modules for empowering edge devices. Integrating the Hailo-8™ processor, the modules can be plugged into a variety of edge devices,.... |
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WINNIPEG: The pandemic's crushing effect on international travel has grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root widely used in Asia to treat everything from the common cold to impotency, at a time when health is top of consumers' minds. Canada is the world's second-largest ginseng exporter after.... |
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SINGAPORE Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its streak of successful contributions and positive feedback in developing cloud-based, digital and intelligent services for global events and conferences, Tencent Cloud today announced its collaboration with Hylink, China's leading digital agency.... |
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HONG KONG: Asia-Pacific mergers and acquisitions are forecast by bankers to remain buoyant after surging 63per cent in the third quarter, driven by technology companies and conglomerates making strategic moves as they emerge from the pandemic. Japanese companies are at the forefront of the M&A boom,.... |
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Property group Hammerson , which owns the Dundrum Town Centre, has appointed Rita-Rose Gagné as its new chief executive. Ms Gagné joins the company from real estate company Ivanhoe Cambridge where she served as president of growth markets and had responsibility for $7.6 billion (€6.5 billion) of assets across Asia Pacific and Latin America. |
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The World Bank’s October 2020 Economic Update for EAP elaborated that the region as a whole is expected to grow by only 0.9% in 2020, the lowest rate since 1967. While China is forecast to grow by 2.0% in 2020 – boosted by government spending, strong exports, and a low rate of new Covid-19.... |
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relief package also lifted the markets. House Democrats have released a scaled back $2.2 trillion proposal to extend support to the U.S. economy. The latest survey from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the manufacturing sector in China continued to expand in September, and at a faster.... |
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Psst! We are giving away movie passes here! https://t.me/asiaonecom The Jakarta Health Agency has reported that almost half of all Covid-19 patients in the capital are asymptomatic.
The agency spokesperson Fify Mulyani said around 45 per cent of confirmed patients in Jakarta showed no symptoms at all. |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday while upbeat manufacturing data lifted shares in China as investors studied the outcome of the debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Hong Kong and Shanghai led regional gains while Japan’s Nikkei 225 edged lower. Overnight, the S&P 500 lost 0. |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday while upbeat manufacturing data lifted shares in China as investors studied the outcome of the debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Hong Kong and Shanghai led regional gains while Japan’s Nikkei 225 edged lower. Overnight, the S&P 500 lost 0. |
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A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street recovered some of this month's losses as investors looked ahead to a debate between President.... |
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The numbers released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Wednesday brought the caseload to 23,812, including 413 deaths. Eighty-one of the new cases came from the Seoul metropolitan area, where health workers have struggled to stem transmissions linked to various sources, including.... |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday while upbeat manufacturing data lifted shares in China as investors studied the outcome of the debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden. Hong Kong and Shanghai led regional gains while Japan’s Nikkei 225 edged lower. Overnight, the S&P 500 lost 0. |
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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Jakarta administration is setting up a two-hectare plot of land in Rorotan public cemetery in North Jakarta for Covid-19 graves as burial space for victims of the coronavirus in the capital city is running out. |
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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Indonesia's House of Representatives members have called on Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto to rework his communication skills following a series of public gaffes that appear to have persuaded him to lie low despite the country's battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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There's this memorable anecdote in Mario Puzo's crime classic, The Godfather, where the mafia don from New York sends his henchman to reason with a Hollywood mogul who is standing in the way of his godson getting a film role perfect for him in every way, except that he has alienated the studio big shot who now hates his guts. |
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A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street recovered some of this month's losses as investors looked ahead to a debate between President.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID-19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear would possibly worsen transmissions. The numbers released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on.... |
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A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street recovered some of this month's losses as investors looked ahead to a debate between President.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID-19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear would possibly worsen transmissions. The numbers released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on.... |
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