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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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Beijing, meanwhile, has gone 14 days without a case of local transmission, and city authorities on Sunday said they were downgrading the emergency response level from two to three. The move is largely symbolic, with measures including mandatory social distancing, temperature checks and 14-day.... |
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© Provided by Associated Press A man wearing a face mask to protect against the new coronavirus opens his health code on his smartphone before entering a cafe at a shopping district in Beijing, Sunday, July 19, 2020. China on Sunday reported another few dozen of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in.... |
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Standard Chartered and Bank of East Asia said they would shorten branch opening hours. — Reuters pic. HONG KONG, July 20 — HSBC, Standard Chartered and other banks in Hong Kong closed branches or curtailed their working hours today after a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in the Asian financial hub. |
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Sai Surya Yarlagadda and Irsyad Ramthan founded Young Sustainable Impact Southeast Asia (YSI SEA) in 2017, when they were engineering students at National University of Singapore (NUS). YSI SEA is a social enterprise born out of an idea that started in Oslo , Norway to encourage youths around the.... |
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PETALING JAYA: The Pew Research Center classifies Malaysia among the world’s most morally conservative countries, but that is a misnomer. Malaysians are, in fact, among the most aggressive on social media. This aggression mostly manifests in derogatory comments, according to Women’s Centre for Change (WCC). |
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An American initiative known as Indo-Pacific Partnership which was put forward at the end of 2017, has been the subject of heated discussions of late. Unlike before, when it was deemed a general idea, now, it appears that the Trump administration has resolved to provide it with a specific meaning. |
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WASHINGTON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Several U.S. economists have been encouraged by the rebound of the Chinese economy, as recent data indicated that the Asian country is the first major economy to get out of the COVID-19-induced recession. "This is very encouraging news. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Stocks looked set for a mixed start to the week ahead of a ramp up in the earnings season. The euro fluctuated as EU leaders failed to reach an agreement on a recovery package over the weekend. Futures dipped in Japan, and were little changed in Hong Kong and Australia. |
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DHAKA — The death toll from heavy monsoon rains across South Asia has climbed to nearly 200, officials said on Sunday, as Bangladesh and Nepal warned that rising waters would bring further flooding. Torrential rains during the monsoon season between June and September trigger floods, landslides and.... |
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Japan’s government will start paying its firms to move factories out of China and back home or to Southeast Asia, part of a new program to secure supply chains and reduce dependence on manufacturing in China. Fifty-seven companies including privately-held facemask-maker Iris Ohyama and Sharp will receive a total of 57. |
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Now that Southeast Asia's richest and most technologically advanced nation has opted for the European companies, the next focus is other countries in the region. Companies and individuals are tending to make greater use of the internet for remote work and education, e-commerce, and video streaming due to the coronavirus pandemic. |
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In a global market where hardly anything made sense this year, one trend seems to be supported by economic reality: Asian stocks’ outperformance versus the rest of the world driven by the region’s better containment of the coronavirus. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index is set to beat the S&P 500 and the.... |
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BAGHDAD (Agencies): Iran’s Foreign Minister says the bellicose behavior displayed by the United States and Israel toward the countries in West Asia is inherent to the duo, and they cannot alter this reality by adopting makeshift policies.
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks on Sunday in a meeting.... |
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The death toll from heavy monsoon rains across South Asia has climbed to nearly 200, officials said Sunday, as Bangladesh and Nepal warned that rising waters would bring further flooding. Torrential rains during the monsoon season between June and September trigger floods, landslides and lightning.... |
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Author: Elizabeth Jangma, Ye Kaung Myint Maung, & Roseanne Gerin, Radio Free Asia. 17 Junly 2020. Hundreds of migrant jade prospectors continue to scour slag heaps for pieces of the precious gemstone amid dangerous conditions during the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining area, despite a.... |
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Jade Scavengers Keep Working in Myanmar’s Hpakant, Despite Deadly Hazards Author: Elizabeth Jangma, Ye Kaung Myint Maung, & Roseanne Gerin, Radio Free Asia, Published on: 18 July 2020. 17 Junly 2020. Hundreds of migrant jade prospectors continue to scour slag heaps for pieces of the precious.... |
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From factory floors in India to the warehouses of Cambodia, garment workers for global brands say the collapse in demand triggered by the coronavirus is being used as a cover to break their unions. The crippling effect of the pandemic has seen orders worth billions of dollars cancelled across.... |
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Wall Street is drifting lower Thursday after mixed reports on the economy highlighted its uncertain path, including one showing that layoffs continue at a stubbornly steady pace. The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower in early afternoon trading, following up on declines across Europe and Asia, as a worldwide rally for markets fades. |
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THE Asia and Pacific region should set more aggressive targets for universal electricity access over the next decade, an energy sector expert from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. Around 200 million people in developing countries within the region had no access to electricity in 2018, down.... |
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World Iranian health officials play down president's figure of 25 million COVID-19 infections.
FILE PHOTO: A man walks past Mofid Children's hospital, where children suspected of being infected with COVID-19 are treated, in Tehran, Iran, Jul 8, 2020. (Photo: WANA - West Asia News Agency - Abdollah.... |
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International financial organizations and individual governments have been sending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Central Asian states to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, with the exception of Turkmenistan, where the authorities continue to claim there are no cases of coronavirus. |
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Global Isopropyl Palmitate Market 2020 – Industry Scenario, Strategies, Growth Factors and Forecast 2026. Recently, the Market Research Store published a new research report on the global . In this report you will find the thorough study on the past market scenarios on the basis of the data.... |
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From factory floors in India to the warehouses of Cambodia, garment workers for global brands say the collapse in demand triggered by the coronavirus is being used as a cover to break their unions. The crippling effect of the pandemic has seen orders worth billions of dollars cancelled across.... |
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South Korea is a thriving modern democracy and a relative beacon of openness and freedom in Northeast Asia. It stands proud among the far more oppressive Chinese Communist Party and the totalitarian rule of the Kim family in North Korea. Yet its two main cities, Seoul and Busan, are both without a mayor for the first time in 70 years. |
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