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Asia Schools in South Korean Capital Go Back Online as COVID-19 Cases Surge
Cho Hee-yeon, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education superintendent, checks the temperatures of students entering Kyungbock High School in Seoul, South Korea on May 20, 2020. / Getty / Kyodo.
By Kyodo News 26 August 2020. |
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1 of 4 A worker disinfects as a precaution against the coronavirus on a street in Goyang, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. South Korea is closing schools and switching back to remote learning in the greater capital area as the country counted its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases in coronavirus cases. |
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Covid-19 continues to fill the news, while the horrors inflicted by pandemic panic are largely ignored. Perhaps nowhere is this truer than with America’s largest former territory and Asia’s first democracy, the Philippines. There President Rodrigo Duterte has declared martial law in all but name and.... |
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday, declared that chloroquine prevents the dreaded coronavirus. Its Director General, Prof. Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye, during an online interactive session with journalists said: “We realise that chloroquine can be.... |
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Southeast Asia’s canneries have improved in their sourcing of traceable and sustainably fished tuna, but need to urgently eliminate forced labour at sea, said environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, which has called for verifiable time-bound commitments from the industry. |
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Thailand's economic fundamentals and fiscal position remain strong, the finance minister said on Wednesday, despite the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic on the tourism-reliant country.
Southeast Asia's second-largest economy shrank 12.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the sharpest drop since the 1998 Asian financial crisis. |
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Whitehaven Coal has had a 95 per cent fall in full-year profit due to lower coal prices but management is adamant there is strong demand for its supplies in Asia. Whitehaven’s net profit after tax dipped to $30.0 million after coal prices slipped due to ongoing US-China trade disputes and declined further as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. |
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Stocks in Asia Pacific were lower in Wednesday afternoon trade as major indexes on Wall Street notched new records yet again overnight. Mainland Chinese stocks fell by the afternoon, with the
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 was 0.18% lower while the Topix index shed 0.21%. South Korea's
hovered above the flatline. |
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[서울=뉴시스] Reporter Kim Hee-joon = East Asia Super League (EASL) said on the 20th, “The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has agreed to support and endorse EASL to hold annual league competitions for the best professional basketball teams in East Asia for the next 10 years. “He said. |
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SEOUL, South Korea Health officials in South Korea ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work as the country counted its 13th straight day of triple-digit jumps in coronavirus cases. Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said those who refuse could have their licenses suspended or revoked, or even face a prison term of less than three years. |
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NEW DELHI: India, one of the eight members of the principal Eurasian plurilateral Shanghai Cooperation Organisation , is quietly nudging the group to adopt English as a working language for the group’s meetings and documents. The request has been put forward by India during the course of various meetings conducted by SCO, it has been learnt. |
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For the past three decades, Vietnam has known only good — or great — economic news. The nation’s consistent growth as an exporter, propelled by Communist leaders who began embracing market-oriented policies in the late 1980s, pushed many into the middle class. The coronavirus pandemic changed all that. |
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BENGALURU, India – On June 9, an Indian health education minister posted an infographic on Twitter showing COVID-19 infections and deaths in the city of Bengaluru were running about half the rate in New Zealand, a country acclaimed globally for reining in the disease. |
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From China to Malaysia, the region’s obesity rate continues to climb due to rising incomes and urbanisation; Experts urge governments to make weight loss surgeries and aftercare more affordable as obese people are more likely to become severely ill with the virus. |
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Pedestrians walk in front of a quotation board displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo May 1, 2020. — AFP pic. SINGAPORE, Aug 26 — Asian stocks eased from a two-year high today, as a mixed bag of economic data had investors a touch more circumspect about the global recovery,.... |
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Firefighters battle the burning peatland in Malaysia’s Kampar. Photo: AFP.
Indonesia’s rain during dry season means Southeast Asia may be spared toxic haze this year.
Smog blanketed parts of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia for months in 2019 after more than 1.6 million hectares of land was burned; Fires last year alone cost Indonesia US$5. |
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Asian stock are mostly lower on Wednesday following the mixed cues overnight from Wall Street. Investors also turned cautious as they looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech to the Jackson Hole symposium on Thursday. Analysts have suggested Powell will signal an increased.... |
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SYDNEY, Aug 26, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Novotech, the largest biotech specialist CRO in the Asia-Pacific region, was awarded the '2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company of the Year' in an overnight virtual global ceremony. This is the fourth ... |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street following talks between the United States and China on the status of a deal meant to work as truce in their trade war. The market has meandered recently on snippets of news about the coronavirus,.... |
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Asian stocks eased from a two-year high on Wednesday, as a mixed bag of economic data had investors a touch more circumspect about the global recovery, while oil jumped to a five-month peak owing to a hurricane disrupting output in the Gulf of Mexico. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged down 0. |
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(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are mostly lower on Wednesday following the mixed cues overnight from Wall Street. Investors also turned cautious as they looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech to the Jackson Hole symposium on Thursday. |
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The package's total funding is estimated at 18.6 trillion VND (808 million USD), which will be used to offer preferential loans to employers to develop production and trade, and generate more jobs, and give direct aid to affected workers. Beneficiaries will include small and medium-sized.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work as the country counted its 13th straight day of triple-digit jumps in coronavirus cases. Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said those who refuse could have their licenses suspended or.... |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street following talks between the United States and China on the status of a deal meant to work as truce in their trade war. The market has meandered recently on snippets of news about the coronavirus,.... |
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The investment is part of Afton’s “Made In” strategy that focuses on globally lean supply chain solutions that enable quicker support and more effective supply to its customers in Asia. It will also provide the additional infrastructure required to support the company’s long-term global growth plans. |
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