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— India registered another record daily increase with 7,466 new coronavirus cases. The Health Ministry's new figures on Friday show India now has 165,799 cases with 4,706 deaths, which both now exceed China. India's two-month lockdown is set to end on Sunday. |
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Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day.
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Stocks in Asia Pacific mostly edged lower in Friday morning trade as investors watch for market reaction to China's controversial national security law for Hong Kong that was approved on Thursday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dipped 0.71% by the afternoon as shares of
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 declined 0. |
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is relaxing a lockdown in the capital, the country’s epicenter of coronavirus infections, in a tightrope move as the economy weakens and the government spends money to help feed millions of poor families restricted to their homes. |
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Asia Today: Duterte easing lockdown in Philippine capital |
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Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Friday in Asia after Wall Street’s rally petered out amid worries about flaring U.S.-China tensions. Benchmarks declined in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day. |
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MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is relaxing a lockdown in the capital, the country’s epicenter of coronavirus infections, in a tightrope move as the economy weakens and the government spends money to help feed millions of poor families restricted to their homes. |
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BANGKOK – Shares fell Friday in Asia after Wall Street’s rally petered out amid worries about flaring U.S.-China tensions. Benchmarks declined in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day. |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are lower on Friday as worries about rising U.S.-China tensions more than offset optimism about a recovery in growth as more economies reopen. China approved a controversial national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday, triggering concerns that the new law will end the city's autonomy. |
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On Thursday, U.S. stocks erased gains to close in the red after President Donald Trump announced plans to hold a Friday press conference on China . Beijing has just passed a controversial national security law which is widely expected to erode Hong Kong's autonomy. |
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BANGKOK Shares fell Friday in Asia after Wall Street’s rally petered out amid worries about flaring U.S.-China tensions. Benchmarks declined in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day. U. |
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Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day.
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Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day.
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Wall Street’s rally ran out of fuel in the last hour of trading on Thursday, and the market fell to its first loss in four days amid worries about rising U.S.-China tensions. The S&P 500 had been climbing for much of the day and was up as much as 1.1% at one point. |
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People wear masks in Manila on March 10. Doctored advisories on lockdown extension are among fake news shared. (AP pic) HONG KONG: False alerts about a man shot dead at a coronavirus checkpoint, old footage of a supermarket stampede in reports of panic buying, and a 2015 video of a police raid on a brothel recirculated with a misleading claim. |
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PARIS — Several European countries including France and Britain on Thursday moved to further lift crippling coronavirus lockdown measures, but fresh restrictions in parts of Asia signalled the crisis is far from over. As much of the world grapples to find the path forward, with the deadly virus.... |
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HONG KONG: False alerts about a man shot dead at a coronavirus checkpoint, old footage of a supermarket stampede in reports of panic buying, and a 2015 video of a police raid on a brothel recirculated with a misleading claim. A deluge of online misinformation and hoaxes during the coronavirus crisis.... |
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By Arundhati Dutta. Indonesia and the Philippines stocks rose on Friday as their economies started returning to life after the coronavirus-induced lockdowns, while Singapore and Thailand tracked broader Asia lower on flaring Sino-U.S. tensions. Beijing and Washington have traded blows over Hong.... |
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BANGKOK – Shares fell Friday in Asia after Wall Street’s rally petered out amid worries about flaring U.S.-China tensions. Benchmarks declined in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. Investors are nervously awaiting a news conference about China by President Donald Trump later in the day. |
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HONG KONG: False alerts about a man shot dead at a coronavirus checkpoint, old footage of a supermarket stampede in reports of panic buying, and a 2015 video of a police raid on a brothel recirculated with a misleading claim. A deluge of online misinformation and hoaxes during the coronavirus crisis.... |
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The pandemic’s pace is accelerating, especially in Asia and Latin America. The coronavirus pandemic’s pace is quickening worldwide, with nearly 700,000 new known infections reported in the last week after the pathogen found greater footholds in Latin America and the Gulf States.
The virus has infected more than 5. |
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(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are lower on Friday as worries about rising U.S.-China tensions more than offset optimism about a recovery in growth as more economies reopen. China approved a controversial national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday, triggering concerns that the new law will end the city's autonomy. |
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AKP Phnom Penh, May 29, 2020 -- Cambodia has reaffirmed that it will host the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in November, said H.E. Luy David, Secretary of State of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, stressing that it will be the world’s largest summit post-COVID-19. |
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While our current global economic situation has been expressed — both metaphorically and visually — as akin to falling off a cliff, there is one very sizeable group that has been teetering on the edge for some time.
Almost five years ago, the Asian Development Bank estimated a global trade finance gap of $1. |
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A police personnel wearing a face shield stands guard at a market place in Ahmedabad as customers wait in queue for shopping. The misinformation being spread online is helping to fuel panic in Asia. – AFP pic, May 29, 2020.
FALSE alerts about a man shot dead at a coronavirus checkpoint, old footage.... |
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