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— Officials have tested more than 4.4 million residents in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang after the discovery of a new cluster. So far, only one case has been confirmed from the testing. Another case was reported in a different city in Liaoning province. |
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SYDNEY More Australian states and territories are reimposing travel restrictions to prevent the coronavirus spreading from new outbreaks in New South Wales and Victoria states. The Australian Capital Territory has shut out non-residents who have been in the northern beaches of Sydney, where the.... |
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Singapore – For decades, most Southeast Asian economies climbed the income ladder by pursuing a growth strategy based on ramping up investment in export-oriented manufacturing and services, relentlessly upskilling their domestic workforces, and leveraging technological advances. |
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JIEYUAN VILLAGE, China – When the Chinese government offered free cows to farmers in Jieyuan, villagers in the remote mountain community were skeptical. They worried officials would ask them to return the cattle later, along with any calves they managed to raise. But the farmers kept the cows, and the money they brought. |
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TAIPEI – Consider for a moment, in this time of anguish and loss and death, of mass unemployment and flattened national economies, the Twilight Zone alternate reality that is Taiwan. For months and months, life on the island has been, in a word, normal — spookily so. Weddings have been held worry-free. |
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FILE – The Philippines’ Margielyn Didal during the 30th Southeast Asian Games skateboard competitions at Sigtuna Hall, Tagaytay International Convention Center. INQUIRER PHOTO/LYN RILLON.
MANILA, Philippines—Olympic hopeful Margielyn Didal has been named one of the nominees for the Asia Skater of the Year in the 2020 Asia Skateboarding Awards. |
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“What are the facts? For years as the rest of Southeast Asia’s capital cities invested in building multi-billion-dollar airports, NAIA was mired in scandal after scandal. Whilst it may no longer be among the world’s worst airports, it is lifetimes away from the world’s best and from what our fellow countries have across ASEAN,” Morillo emphasized. |
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Lockdowns and harsh laws meant to fight the virus have also seen governments quash dissent. |
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SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s leading medical group says the New South Wales state government has put the rest of the country at risk by its decision not to go “hard and early” in its response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches, which is suspected to have also caused new cases in neighboring Victoria state. |
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Here's What You Need to Remember: In East Asia, all of Japan, China, South Korea, and India either have blue water forces, or are moving quickly in that direction. Australia might join them, although this would require a workable replacement strategy for the Collins-class submarines. |
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Then, last January, Prof Shi and two colleagues published a paper in Nature that revealed the existence of a virus called RaTG13 that was taken from a horseshoe bat and stored on their premises, the biggest repository of bat coronaviruses in Asia. This paper, submitted on the same day China admitted.... |
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Then, last January, Prof Shi and two colleagues published a paper in Nature that revealed the existence of a virus called RaTG13 that was taken from a horseshoe bat and stored on their premises, the biggest repository of bat coronaviruses in Asia. This paper, submitted on the same day China admitted.... |
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Turkey is under enormous pressure to ratify a 2017 extradition deal, allowing the country’s Uyghur Muslims to be returned to China, the EurAsian Times has learned. Indian army doing all it can to wipe out terrorists from Kashmir Valley, but families cry foul Beijing has ratified the deal, while.... |
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January 03, 2021 5:00 AM I lived in Germany for three years in the early 2000s, cold calling senior leaders of German multinational corporations about investing in Singapore to accelerate their Asian expansion. |
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When it comes to 2021, to simplify one especially complex set of scenarios, I will be watching what I call the three Cs with extreme care: COVID-19, China and climate. Nikkei Asia will provide comprehensive and thorough coverage of these three subjects because these are the three topics I expect to.... |
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Islamabad. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood has said that the government’s vision for trade and economic relations with Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics(CARs) is to make Pakistan a hub for trade, transit and transshipment. |
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The July 2020 Issue of Militant Leadership Monitor features a brief on the acting emir of Islamic State in East Asia, Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan; a short overview of Abu Muhammad al-Masri; an in-depth profile of Igor Strelkov-Girkin, the former Minister of Defense of Donetsk; a “Who’s Who” of the GNA’s.... |
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Bangladesh’s capital market yielded the highest returns in 2020 among Asia's emerging economies, in what can be viewed as yet another endorsement of the solid shift put in by the current team at the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission since taking charge in May. DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, gained 21. |
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The fight against Covid-19 has been widely framed as a trade-off between managing the ongoing public health crisis and salvaging the economy. Public health and economic thought leaders now indicate that this a false dichotomy. Speaking at the fourth Annual Asia Securities Sri Lanka Investment Conference, an expert panel comprising Prof. |
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Maliban Biscuits was bestowed the Brand Excellence Award in the FMCG sector at the Sri Lanka Best Brand Awards 2020 recently. The virtual event was organised by CMO Asia, a global network of executives specifically dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange and relationship building. |
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by Paul Iddon Since the end of World War I, the only substantial chemical attacks in warfare have occurred in East Asia and the Middle East. Japan poisoned Chinese troops with gas in the 1930s. Egypt dumped poison gas on Yemen in the 1960s, and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein killed thousands with chemical weapons in the 1980s. |
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jan. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Asian Entrepreneur, a media company based in Malaysia, has announced that it will be rebranding by the start of 2021 after having recently closed a total of USD $8 million in investments. Launched by former students at Harvard University,.... |
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Iranian military commander, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi says General Soleimani had a leading role in creating stability and security in West Asia in recent years. |
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. The writer is a distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance.
The end of the year is a good time to reflect. The devastating pandemic marked a year few of us would ever forget. |
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Trading in Tokyo and South Korea was closed for the New Year’s holiday on Thursday, while the handful of bourses that remained open in Asia were mixed. In Taiwan, the TAIEX closed higher on Thursday, registering a rise of 22.8 percent, or 2,735.39 points, for the whole of the year. The index edged up 44. |
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