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“We are trying to get out the vote, trying to get Asian-Americans to show up, but Biden is not showing up for us,” says Michelle Liang, an organizer with NAKASEC Action Fund, an Asian-American advocacy organization working on voter turnout in the swing state of Pennsylvania. |
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A team of archaeologists from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, the Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage, and Leiden University has unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of the , an extinct species of elephant that lived throughout Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and Holocene. |
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Pakistan-China diplomatic relations established on 21 May 1951. Since then the relations kept on growing over time. Although, both countries having different political systems, different religions, different races, yet the bond of friendship was so strong that it grew continually. |
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While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to upset global economies, Kenya faces multiple emergencies from the novel virus, flooding that has destroyed over 10,000 hectares of cropland to the worst desert locust invasion in 70 years. The swarms originated from the Middle East and spread into the Horn of Africa and Asia aided by winds. |
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths as the pandemic that has swept across the world begins to hit Latin America with its full force. After Asia, Europe and North America, Latin America has seen coronavirus infections surge in recent days and now accounts for about.... |
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An Air Asia pilot from Malaysia, who lost his job nearly two months ago, had to go through an ordeal on his return to India in the early hours of May 13. On landing in Mumbai with his wife, the pilot, who wished to remain anonymous, had to pay ₹600 each for both to board a mini-bus that took them to Thane from the airport. |
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Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the coronavirus pandemic: - Schools reopen in South Korea - Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students returned to school as educational establishments started re-opening after being shuttered by coronavirus for more than two months. |
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Satcom Global is delighted to announce that its flagship Aura VSAT service now boasts enhanced coverage through new High Throughput Satellites (HTS) and beam enhancements, offering superior connectivity to maritime users in popular trading routes, fishing waters and leisure hotspots in the Americas and Asia. |
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Bangladesh is seeing a more rapid increase in Covid-19 cases compared to some other Asian countries, with the number doubling every five days, said the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of cases is also shooting up as the government increased the number of testing facilities and tests per day. |
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By Tanzim Anwar. DHAKA, May 20, 2020 (BSS) – Top US state department official for South and Central Asia Alice Wells today said a changing order in global supply chains in view of COVID-19 could benefit Bangladesh economy as she appeared on a regional press briefing through virtual media. “(This) time of diversification of global supply chain . |
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Brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths as the pandemic that has swept across the world begins to hit Latin America with its full force. After Asia, Europe and North America, Latin America has seen coronavirus infections surge in recent days and now accounts for about 580,000 of the world's nearly five million confirmed cases. |
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More than half the nations of Southeast Asia started this week by taking a donation of protective personal equipment (PPE), such as medical suits and masks, from their neighbor Vietnam to help them in the fight against COVID-19. It is the latest sign the region is resisting the impulse to choke off.... |
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SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - Asian refining margins for jet fuel turned positive for the first time in a month and European margins rose to the highest level in three weeks on Wednesday, bolstered by deep supply cuts and an uptick in flights in regional markets.
The jet fuel refining margin in Singapore flipped to $1. |
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Hong Kong: Asian markets got a reality check after media reports questioned positive early results from a Moderna Inc Covid-19 vaccine trial and tensions between the world’s two biggest economies resurfaced. After clashing at the WHO assembly, the war of words between US and China has intensified.... |
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The new school year was supposed to start in early March, but was delayed several times. About 5.4 million students have been taking classes online. In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region: — FIVE CASES IN CHINA: China is continuing to combat a virus cluster in its northeastern province of.... |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths as the pandemic that has swept across the world begins to hit Latin America with its full force. After Asia, Europe and North America, Latin America has seen coronavirus infections surge in recent days and now accounts for about.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korean students began returning to classes Wednesday as the country counted 32 new coronavirus cases. It was the first time in nine days that the daily increase was above 30. South Korea relaxed much of its social distancing rules in early May, but then saw a spike in new infections linked to nightclubs in Seoul. |
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Hong Kong - Standard Chartered announced today that Vinda Household Paper (China) Limited ('Vinda') has become the first company in Asia to make a drawdown under the Bank's USD1 billion financing commitment to help companies tackling COVID-19. Vinda's parent company is Vinda International Holdings Ltd (3331. |
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ConocoPhillips on Wednesday said Don Wallette Jr. will retire as executive vice president and chief financial officer on Aug. 31 after 39 years with the company. The Houston energy company said William Bullock Jr., currently president of Asia Pacific Middle East, will succeed Mr. |
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From the second century BC until the 18th century, the Silk Road served as a route for goods between Asia and Europe. Similar paths have emerged in recent decades, covering much of the same expansive territory across Russia and former Soviet Union countries and now providing for the movement of counterfeit goods. |
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The challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic is global in scope but the specific, local problems in some respects are very different. COVID-19 makes its own rules. It knows no nationality and no borders. The infection spreads without discrimination based on form of government, religion, or ethnicity. |
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(Corrects to show Zaw Lin could not confirm which country the methylfentanyl came from, not declined to identify it, paragraph 25.) By Tom Allard. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Myanmar police say they have seized a huge haul of liquid fentanyl, the first time one of the dangerous synthetic opioids that have.... |
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Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the coronavirus pandemic: Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students have returned to school after a delay of more than two months because of the coronavirus outbreak Photo: AFP / Ed JONES. Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students.... |
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BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has launched the nomination process for its next president this week and the nominations will be accepted until June 18. According to the AIIB's articles of agreement, its president should be a national of a regional member. |
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ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies, launched a Dh1.1 billion venture fund to invest in early-stage Indian and Southeast Asian start-ups and help them set up a base in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City. Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI) Fund will be based at the emirate’s financial hub, Abu Dhabi.... |
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