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Once the world’s fastest-growing major economy, India is set to post the steepest quarterly decline in gross domestic product in Asia as it quickly becomes the global
With more than 65,000 new infections a day and total cases topping 3 million in a country of 1.3 billion, India’s road to recovery appears a long and hard one. |
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A slump in real yields on US Treasury bonds is set to stoke demand for Asian government debt as the search for income forces investors to take on more risk. Ten-year government yields, adjusted for expected inflation in 2021, are positive in Indonesia, India, China, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. |
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Sponsorship from Asia New Zealand Foundation is enabling the University of Canterbury (UC) Business School to deliver four online panel discussions to support the business community. The first webinar in the series is an international event, streaming in New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. |
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Stay-at-home orders have left vulnerable populations in a precarious situation. For Kansas-based Unbound , an organization that pairs sponsors with the elderly and children in countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, local staff lost the ability to check in on the people they helped. |
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US containerized soybean exports to Asia are seeing an earlier-than-usual seasonal surge in demand in August, with Taiwanese buyers leading the pack in purchasing, market sources said. Typically, the demand season in Asia for US containerized soybean imports starts around September. |
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Singapore, 26 August 2020. World Vision’s launched its first “Asia Pacific Child Well-Being Learning Exchange” in a virtual setting last week, in its continuing efforts to help vulnerable children and communities live life to its full potential. The initiative aims to bring together government, UN.... |
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TEHRAN – Utku Reyhan, the secretary-general of the nationalist Patriotic Party in Turkey, is of the opinion that West Asian countries including Iran and Turkey can form an alliance to confront common threats posed by the U.S. and its allies in the region. |
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Since the advent of technological innovations in warfare, ‘Cyberspace’ has considerably emerged as the new battlefield for states. The South Asian region has also been impacted by this complex warfare domain. This is primarily because India aspires to dominate the regional domain of cyberspace. |
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – President Director of PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BBCA) Jahja Setiaatmadja has his own assessment of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector in the country. According to Jahja, MSMEs in Indonesia are still unable to compete, making it difficult for them to enter the leading e-commerce platforms. |
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Moeldoko, Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic of Indonesia speaks in a Jak Post up Close Webinar accompanied with Nezar Patria, The Jakarta Post Editor-in-Chief and Ghina Ghaliya, The Jakarta Post journalist in Jakarta on Thursday, August 27. 2020. |
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The closing ceremony of the Equestrian Marathon and Military Rally contests of the International Army Games 2020 will be held for the first time at the Center of Asia sculpture complex on the banks of the Yenisei River in the Republic of Tyva. The names of the winners of the competitions will be.... |
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India, with its independence in August 1947, shared a lot of common ideals and institutions such as democracy, freedom of press, freedom of religion, respect for individual liberty, human rights, independence of judiciary, federalism etc. But the foreign policy of a country, far from being an.... |
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More than half of the Lebanese population faced the threat of a food crisis after the Beirut blast, the UN said in a statement. More than half of the country's population is at risk of losing access to their basic food needs by the end of the year, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia said in a statement. |
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Scientists have discovered a brand new strain of coronavirus in south east Asia which is '10 times more infectious' than the strain currently afflicting the world. The discovery has been made in Indonesia where coronavirus cases have begun to steadily rise again. |
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"Upon landing in the UAE [United Arab Emirates], all the participants have followed a mandatory testing and quarantine program. Total of 1,988 RT-PCR COVID tests were carried out between August 20th-28th across all participant groups in the UAE," the statement read. On Saturday, India reported 944 of the total 1,491 total deaths in Asia. |
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi greets his Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soreide with an elbow bump in Oslo on Thursday. Wang is on a five-nation tour of Europe. Photo: Xinhua.
China seeks to manage crisis, shore up ties with diplomatic flurry in Europe and Asia. |
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"Upon landing in the UAE [United Arab Emirates], all the participants have followed a mandatory testing and quarantine program. Total of 1,988 RT-PCR COVID tests were carried out between August 20th-28th across all participant groups in the UAE," the statement read. On Saturday, India reported 944 of the total 1,491 total deaths in Asia. |
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The Munich-based automaker takes a step forward with its first PHEV here. EXCLAIMED SMC Asia Car Distributors Corp. (ACDC) Chairman Ramon Ang, “ Maganda ang performance, matipid pa sa fuel, and grabe ang low-end torque (It performs well, is fuel-efficient, and has awesome low-end torque. |
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DJs Get Looze and Hoaprox were included in a list of 17 producers Mixmag Asia described as "making serious noise in the world right now" and turning heads in the dance community. The selected artists are "some of the very best newcomers, best kept secrets, and leading lights the continent has to offer," said Mixmag Asia. |
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Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), made the statement in his opening speech at an international workshop, themed “Vietnam nowadays through Eurasian lens”, held on August 28. |
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India has registered 78,761 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the worst single-day spike in the world, as the government continues to further ease pandemic restrictions nationwide. The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 948 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 63,498. |
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The crowded subway, a lifeline for millions of people in New Delhi, the capital, will be reopened in a phased manner from Sept. 7. Schools and colleges, however, will remain closed until the end of September. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and its fatalities are the fourth-highest. |
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Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal L. Sin (left) and the late President Ramon F. Magsaysay. (Photos from Wikipedia) MANILA -- As the nation marks on Monday the 113th birthday of the late beloved President-statesman Ramon F. Magsaysay, the Filipino Catholics also observe the 92nd birth anniversary of the departed Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal L. |
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Asia Today: India's tally surges as restrictions are eased |
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