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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the S&P 500 logged a fresh all-time high. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged higher after the country reported its exports fell 19% in July from a year earlier. Markets in Hong Kong were closed due to a tropical storm. The data was an improvement over a 26. |
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India reported 1,092 new fatalities from COVID-19 on Wednesday, its highest single-day total. The country has the fourth-most deaths in the world and the third-most cases, with over 2.7 million including more than 64,000 new infections reported Wednesday. |
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Singapore: Asian investors, spooked by a pandemic with seemingly no end in sight, are flocking to a growing segment of the mutual fund industry - income funds backed by corporate debt that pay out monthly.
Workers preparing for retirement in Hong Kong and Singapore have turned to income funds that.... |
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The figures released by South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday brought the national caseload to 16,058, including 306 deaths. It was the sixth straight day the country reported daily increases in triple digits, with most of the cases coming from the densely populated.... |
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Those numbers “will likely be greatly amplified” if services falter elsewhere in Latin America, Africa and Asia, Marie Stopes’ director of global evidence, Kathryn Church, has said. The World Health Organization this month said two-thirds of 103 countries surveyed between mid-May and early July.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 297 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily rise since early March, as the country began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control. |
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Seventy-five years have passed since that fateful summer day when Japanese Emperor Hirohito, through a radio address, announced to the people that the country was accepting unconditional surrender, an act that closed the curtain on World War II. On this anniversary, we express our condolences to the.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has reported 297 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily rise since early March, as the country began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control. |
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The figures released by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday brought the national caseload to 16,058, including 306 deaths. It was the sixth straight day the country reported daily increases in triple digits, with most of the cases coming from the densely populated.... |
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Credit: KSU sorghum breeding program. August 19, 2020 - Sorghum, a common food item in regions of Africa and Asia, has one missing puzzle piece. The missing piece? Protein digestibility, which researchers in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University are trying to find. |
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SEOUL, South Korea South Korea has reported 297 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily rise since early March, as the country began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control. The figures released by South Korea’s Centers for.... |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the S&P 500 logged a fresh all-time high. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged higher after the country reported its exports fell 19% in July from a year earlier. Markets in Hong Kong were closed due to a tropical storm. The data was an improvement over a 26. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 297 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily rise since early March, as the country began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control. |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 297 new cases of the coronavirus, its biggest daily rise since early March, as the country began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control. |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the S&P 500 logged a fresh all-time high. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged higher after the country reported its exports fell 19% in July from a year earlier. Markets in Hong Kong were closed due to a tropical storm. The data was an improvement over a 26. |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mixed on Wednesday despite the mostly positive cues overnight from Wall Street after the S&P 500 Index rose to an all-time high. Investors remained cautious due to the deadlock in the negotiations for a coronavirus stimulus package in the U.S. |
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ALOR SETAR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Kedah has ramped up restrictions in areas where Covid-19 cases have been detected in the northern Malaysian state. The restrictions will take effect immediately. Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said dining-in would no longer be allowed at eateries in.... |
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Stocks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the S&P 500 logged a fresh all-time high. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index edged higher after the country reported its exports fell 19% in July from a year earlier. Markets in Hong Kong were closed due to a tropical storm. The data was an improvement over a 26. |
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The data was an improvement over a 26.2% drop in June and slightly better than expected, while an 8.2% increase in exports to China was the first since early-2019 and suggests the recovery there is helping offset weak demand in other markets, said Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics.
The nearly 21% decline in exports to the U. |
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Iconic UK music brand NME has launched in Asia, even as the entertainment industry is hit by the coronavirus. NME says its new Singapore-based website will deliver a fresh approach to the Southeast Asian music scene. The company says it will initially focus on Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines and has plans to rapidly expand in the region. |
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(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are mixed on Wednesday despite the mostly positive cues overnight from Wall Street after the S&P 500 Index rose to an all-time high. Investors remained cautious due to the deadlock in the negotiations for a coronavirus stimulus package in the U.S. and as they looked ahead to the release today of minutes of the U. |
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The data was an improvement over a 26.2% drop in June and slightly better than expected, while an 8.2% increase in exports to China was the first since early-2019 and suggests the recovery there is helping offset weak demand in other markets, said Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics.
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(Bloomberg) -- India’s only international financial hub is seeking to seize a major part of the offshore rupee trading business within two years, a target that is both ambitious as well as crucial for its plan to be an alternative global financial gateway. |
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A team led by Charles Harvey, an MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Alison Hoyt, PhD ’17, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, has used precise satellite elevation data gathered from 2007 to 2011 to document the environmentally dangerous effects of peatland drainage in Southeast Asia. |
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Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus A UN survey showed that around two-thirds of countries had at least one service severely affected, including South Africa, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan - with South Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, having the highest proportion of countries reporting disruptions in service availability. |
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