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Asia United Bank (AUB) posted a 10 percent decline in net income to P2.3 billion for the first half of 2020 despite the 18 percent year-on-year increase in operating earnings. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AUB said operating gains were partly offset by the P1. |
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart K. P. Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours. Oli called Modi on the occasion of India's.... |
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged never to "repeat the tragedy of war" as commemorations marking VJ Day — the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia — got underway Saturday. With many events muted this year due to the coronavirus pandemic , a somber Abe wore a face mask as he.... |
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart K. P. Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours. |
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — When the Dharala River burst its banks in early July, Kamal Hossain left his home with five members of his family to take shelter in a school in northern Bangladesh, carrying their most prized belongings: cattle, a few sacks of rice and clothes. Like him, an estimated 17. |
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August 15, 2020. MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart K. P. Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours. |
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SWITZERLAND. The domestic stock market presents itself more strongly in the new trading week. The leading index SMI was able to post gains of 0.67 percent at 10,298.82 points at the start of the stock market and is also proving to be firmer. Also the small caps indices SLI and SPI started firmer with surcharges of 0. |
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The Trump administrations escalating pressure campaign against China calls for a beefed up military presence to challenge Beijings claims in Asia, signaling a widening role for the U.S. Navy. |
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MANILA Fifteen more Filipinos abroad were added to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) case count, bringing the total to 9,893. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday reported that three Filipinos also died in the Americas while 19 recovered in the same region, including in the Asia Pacific and Europe. |
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In an article published on August 13, the newspaper said the coronavirus has shown how companies have to face risks as supply chains rely on each single country. Therefore, Telsa is not alone in choosing Vietnam. In recent years, the Southeast Asian nation has become a popular option for companies.... |
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JEJOMAR Villacorte, an elementary teacher from Tacloban City, won first place in the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding’s (APCEIU) Challenge for 2020 Sharing Stories on Asia Pacific Education Movement (SSAEM) Online Conference. Dr. |
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Jack Burton is an American writer, broadcaster, linguist and journalist who has lived in Asia since 1987. A native of the state of Georgia, he attended the The University of Georgia's Henry Grady School of Journalism, which hands out journalism's prestigious Peabody Awards. |
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Acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long suggested increasing community concern about COVID-19 at a meeting of the National Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on August 14. Violations of COVID-19 prevention and control measures must be strictly punished, he added. |
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PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) has agreed to join Muafakat Nasional (MN) that will support Perikatan Nasional (PN) as a grand coalition, said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Saturday (Aug 15). The Bersatu president said several discussions.... |
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SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, Anthony Tan, the CEO of South-east Asia's biggest ride-hailing firm, recalls how he mistook the infection to be a China-only problem, similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or Sars in 2003. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Northeast Asia doesn’t so much repeat history as drag it along like an anchor. The bombs stopped falling 75 years ago, but it is entirely possible — crucial even, some argue — to view the region’s world-beating economies, its massive cultural and political reach and its bitter trade,.... |
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BETTER DAYS. With all that has been happening here in our country, it easy to overlook good news. Amid the pandemic, it would be far from our minds to think that some of our fellow Filipinos would stand out to be among the most innovative thinkers, not only in Asia, but potentially across the globe. |
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Thousands of migrant workers from Central Asia are stuck in Russia because of travel bans, leading some to rely on money from home in a painful reversal of one of the biggest remittance flows in the world.
“We’re up to our ears in debt,” said Tolib, a 26 year-old unemployed security guard, who was.... |
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SEOUL/TOKYO -- The leaders of Japan and South Korea gave contrasting speeches Saturday at ceremonies in the two capitals to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia. At a colorful event attended by veterans to mark what is called Liberation Day in South Korea, President Moon.... |
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Saturday - the 75th anniversary of Japan's World War Two surrender, but avoided a personal visit that would anger China and South Korea.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, whose ties.... |
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ADB President, ICRC President Discuss Collaboration in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States. News Release | 15 August 2020. MANILA, PHILIPPINES (15 August 2020) - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer.... |
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TOKYO (AP) — The Pacific War was so massive, so calamitous, it can be difficult to put it in context. There was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that triggered the Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Midway that changed the course of the war and the dramatic flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The events continue to reverberate in Asia today. |
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Here are some important events that continue to reverberate in Asia today: COLONIZING KOREA: During Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, Koreans had to adopt Japanese names, worship Japan's Shinto religion and speak Japanese. They were treated as second-class citizens. |
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TOKYO (AP) — The Pacific War was so massive, so calamitous, it can be difficult to put it in context. There was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that triggered the Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Midway that changed the course of the war and the dramatic flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The events continue to reverberate in Asia today. |
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SEOUL--South Korea has reported 166 newly confirmed case of the coronavirus, it’s highest daily jump in five months, as health authorities fear transmissions are getting out of control in the greater capital area that’s home to half of the country’s 51 million people. |
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