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Global markets are on the rise Wednesday as investors wait to hear what steps the U.S. Federal Reserve will take to ensure a post-pandemic recovery. In Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei index finished the trading session up 0.1%. In late afternoon trading on, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was essentially unchanged, while Shanghai's composite index was down 0. |
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While the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the death of coal in developed nations, the dirtiest fossil fuel is alive and kicking in Asia. Demand for electricity plunged -- and with it the need for coal -- as factories around the world sat dormant and people spent months at home. In the U.S. |
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Asia Indonesia: Protecting orangutans from the coronavirus. Can humans spread COVID-19 to orangutans? Authorities in Indonesia are not willing to take any risk, as they shut down two orangutan rehabilitation centers to limit the apes' interaction with the public.
Date 10.06.2020; Duration 01:29 mins. |
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NEW YORK June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- , a top podcast hosting platform and Voxnest brand, announced its new partnership with South Asia's largest audio streaming platform, , today. The integration will give podcasters on Spreaker the opportunity to get discovered by a new audience and South Asian.... |
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HONG KONG June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AXA has today launched a free in-depth resource to guide companies in safeguarding their employees' mental health as they return to work amid the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region, co-authored with Columbia University WHO Center for Global Mental Health. |
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Global markets are on the rise Wednesday as investors wait to hear what steps the U.S. Federal Reserve will take to ensure a post-pandemic recovery. In Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei index finished the trading session up 0.1%. In late afternoon trading on, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was essentially unchanged, while Shanghai's composite index was down 0. |
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Transparency Market Research (TMR) released a syndicate report that unshackles the key factors responsible for market growth. The global pharma blisters packaging market can be segmented on the basis of end-user, application, and region. The heavy demand for pharmaceutical products in India and China has pushed market growth in Asia Pacific. |
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Rice production is a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the national budget of many Asian countries, but the extent of emissions varies strongly across agro-environmental zones. It is important to understand these differences in order to improve the national GHG inventory and effectively target mitigation options. |
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Pakistan should impose intermittent lockdowns in a two-weeks-on and two-weeks-off cycle to try to rein in an accelerating Covid-19 outbreak, the World Health Organization has said. The South Asian nation of 220 million had seen cases spike since easing restrictions last month, while hospitals have warned they are starting to fill up. |
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On Tuesday, a picture of a very large grasshopper in Sankhamul posted to social media left many wondering if the locust swarm that has devastated parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East was on its way to Nepal. More than a week ago, a similar insect had been sighted around Kathmandu’s Bhotahity and there were anecdotal reports from Patan. |
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Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI. Headline: ASIA/TURKEY – “Egyptian Fatwa” against those who want to re-transform Ayasofya in Mosque. The pronouncement of the Council of State is awaited. Istanbul – The Turkish Council of State, in a session put on the agenda for next Thursday 2 July, will consider.... |
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A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Shares were trading slightly higher in Asia on Wednesday after a weekslong rally on Wall Street hit the brakes. |
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Equities were mixed in Asia on Wednesday as investors appeared to run out of steam after an extended rally fuelled by economic recovery hopes as coronavirus restrictions are eased around the world. While the World Health Organization said a record number of new virus cases were registered globally.... |
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The oil and gas industry is cutting spending and postponing investment decisions. Although a rebound in demand is expected in 2021, the IEA does not expect a quick return to pre-crisis levels. For the full year, more mature markets across Europe, North America and Asia are forecast to see the.... |
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If Southeast Asian nations aspire to avoid prolonged pandemic-driven recessions, many will need to open their closed borders and welcome back the foreign tourists that buoyed their economies before Covid-19. Since the Covid-19 outbreak began in January, which first severely cut the number of Chinese.... |
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Shares were trading slightly higher in Asia on Wednesday after a weekslong rally on Wall Street hit the brakes. Markets rose Wednesday in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but fell in Shanghai after the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, its largest loss in almost three weeks. Skeptics have been saying for weeks that the rally may have been overdone. |
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SYDNEY, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Economic distancing from China or self-isolation will worsen the economic conditions and prolong the path toward recovery, Shiro Armstrong, director of the Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University, has said. |
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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after the Nasdaq hit a record high.
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A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Shares were trading slightly higher in Asia on Wednesday after a weekslong rally on Wall Street hit the brakes. |
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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after the Nasdaq hit a record high.
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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after the Nasdaq hit a record high.
A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank electronic board showing the Hong.... |
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BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were trading slightly higher in Asia on Wednesday after a weekslong rally on Wall Street hit the brakes. Markets rose Wednesday in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but fell in Shanghai after the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, its largest loss in almost three weeks. Skeptics have been saying for weeks that the rally may have been overdone. |
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Tiger Trade is a mobile and web trading app launched by global online stock brokerage Tiger Brokers. - Tiger Trade's backers include Interactive Brokers, Barron's top online broker, Xiaomi, Chinese tech giant, and Jim Rogers, Wall Street investment guru. |
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NEW DELHI (THE STATESMAN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Despite Covid-19 ravaging almost the entire world, China has continued to push forth its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), taking advantage of the vacuum created by the months-long pandemic. Among Southeast Asian countries, Laos, a tiny and an.... |
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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - There was a semblance of normality when passengers thronged to train stations in Bogor and Bekasi in West Java on Monday (June 8) morning to commute to their workplaces in Jakarta after having not done so for two months during the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in the capital. |
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