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(Bloomberg) -- For Kuok Meng Xiong’s family office, 2020 was a bumper year with investments in technology startups like Bytedance Inc. doing well throughout the pandemic. Despite this good fortune and promises of a vaccine, the grandson of billionaire Robert Kuok remains wary about private deals in the year ahead. |
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) priced a $4.5 billion 5-year global bond, proceeds of which would be part of ADB’s ordinary capital resources. “The dollar market has seen a very active start to the new year,” said ADB Treasurer Pierre Van Peteghem, according to ADB press statement received here Thursday. |
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Warfare History Network History, Asia Japan’s ambitious plan to build aircraft carriers in wartime could not be supported by available resources. Here's What You Need to Know: The Japanese war effort was unbalanced and crippled by industrial and managerial weaknesses. |
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Media workers should be among those to be prioritized in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccine once it is available. Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar stressed this in a virtual radio interview Wednesday, pointing out that they serve as frontliners in the fight against the pandemic. |
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Additional Definitions. Emerging markets consist of the Latin America region in its entirety; the Asia, Middle East and Africa region excluding Australia, New Zealand and Japan; and the following countries from the Europe region: Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, Czech Republic,.... |
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Following Joe Biden’s election as the forty-sixth president of the United States, many people in Taiwan feared that U.S.-Taiwan relations would suffer. According to one poll conducted prior to the presidential election, Taiwan was the only place in Asia surveyed where the population favored President Trump’s reelection. |
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Employers and workers of various businesses hold placards as they protest against the strengthening of measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic in front of the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv on Nov. 11, 2020. The government imposed the "weekend lockdown" and uniform nationwide quarantine measures later on Nov. |
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One week into the job, US President Joe Biden has sent a clear warning to Beijing against any expansionist intentions in East and Southeast Asia. In multiple calls and statements, he and his top security officials have underscored support for allies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines,.... |
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(AGENPARL) – GLOBAL, gio 28 gennaio 2021 The Singapore-based shipmanager attributes the reduction to fleet renewal, green-tech, operational excellence, and the use of alternative marine fuels. Eastern… Related Stories Thailand continues LNG trading trial Globus to raise $16.3m from latest share placement Asia is next big growth market for. |
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Prudential (2378) yesterday said it would separate its US business, Jackson, through a demerger to better focus on Asian and Africa and that... |
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Dear All, Please join us at 6.30pm GMT on Tuesday February 23rd for a joint Islamic Art Circle and Royal Asiatic Society Zoom lecture by Dr. Erin O'Halloran entitled From the Khilafat Crisis to the Arab Revolt: The Middle East in Indian nationalist politics between the wars. Dr. |
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Job Description: Wilmington College invites applications for a two-year ASIANetwork-Luce Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Asian History housed within the History Department. The Fellow will teach three courses (on a 2/1 or 1/2 basis) during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, participate.... |
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Speaker: Qiao Yang (History of Asia; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Time: 02 January 2021, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm Central European Time (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EST; China: 1:15 am–2:45 am CST) This talk is part of a series of virtual lectures hosted by the International.... |
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Pirkka Tapiola is European Union ambassador to Thailand. Karin Hulshof is regional director for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is time to rethink policies that are keeping millions of children out of school and hindering their learning process. |
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Caleb Weiss joins Tom and Bill to discuss France’s intervention in West Africa. Branches of both Al Qaeda and ISIS are fighting for territory, but France’s patience may be starting to wear thin.
Powered by RedCircle Take a look around the globe today and you’ll see jihadists fighting everywhere from West Africa to Southeast Asia. |
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After a sluggish start to the year, US imports from Asia came roaring back in the second half, with an even higher concentration than usual flowing through the largest container gateways.
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Daniel Pearl. Mr Pearl was working as the Wall Street Journal’ s South Asia bureau chief in 2002 when he was abducted in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi and beheaded. The brutal killing shocked the world and brought attention to the Islamic extremism that Mr Pearl was reporting on at the time of his death. |
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Bangladesh is likely to recover faster than its Asian peers from the Covid-19 fallout thanks to improving exports, growth in domestic consumption and remittance inflow, according to a study of Standard Chartered bank. In fiscal 2020-21, the economy will bounce back led by growing exports and.... |
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Monet Stokes is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Tsinghua University. She focuses on policy, economics, and culture in East Asia. |
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China will donate three lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses to Sri Lanka, stepping up its vaccine diplomacy in South Asia as India rushed its domestically manufactured coronavirus vaccines to several countries in the subcontinent as well as across the globe. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on.... |
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The geographical split in our order book has shifted, with substantial diversification in the geographical origin of our clients: in particular the major trends already observed in Asia and North America. Japan and South Korea thus accounted for 21% of the total order book in 2020, with €5. |
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. Romanian technology startup Atta Systems, a software service provider, is expanding to Asia by opening an office in Singapore, the company announced on January 27. The next step of its expansion will be on the east coast of the United States. "We enjoy taking on difficult technical (... |
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Armenian Scholar Yeghia Tashjian wrote that the Azerbaijan-Turkey-Pakistan alliance concerns Armenia and India. He stated that Turkey has been assisting Pakistan when it comes to Kashmir, and Islamabad returns the favor by pledging support to Turkey in its aggressive policies in the South Caucasus and Western Asia. |
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Bengaluru — An almost 60% surge in shares of American Airlines led stellar gains for a series of social media hyped stocks on Thursday, broadening a battle between small-time traders and major Wall Street institutions that has shaken US and European stock markets. The battle also moved into Asia, with surges in several Australian companies. |
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Armenian Scholar Yeghia Tashjian wrote that the Azerbaijan-Turkey-Pakistan alliance concerns Armenia and India. He stated that Turkey has been assisting Pakistan when it comes to Kashmir, and Islamabad returns the favor by pledging support to Turkey in its aggressive policies in the South Caucasus and Western Asia. |
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