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The Philippines’ Surigao del Norte province is stepping up measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to the suspension of mining operations starting on Wednesday (April 1), two nickel miners confirmed on Tuesday (March 31). Nickel Asia and Global Ferronickel, which account.... |
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology emits radio frequency rays in portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that will identify an object, animal, device or person. RFID has applications in various sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and retail, among others. |
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TOKYO -- From his apartment in Manila's Bonifacio Global City, Eric Go can still see planes going past his windows. Like many in Southeast Asia's middle class, Go, who grew up in the U.S. and works for an e-commerce company, has been used to near-seamless mobility: ride-hailing, low-cost airlines and direct flights back to his family in New York. |
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to Asia Wednesday amid growing concerns about North Korea; the 44th president picked the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels to face off in the March Madness championship. |
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MONTREAL , March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Medicom is one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical-grade personal protective equipment, including surgical and respiratory masks. Medicom has their head office in Montreal , with offices around the globe and production facilities in Asia Europe and the United States. |
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SINGAPORE April 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 320,000 local jobs across the Asia Pacific region and a $36bn industry are at risk of being overlooked by politicians as they devise financial rescue measures to cope with the COVID-19 crisis.
The Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA) is calling.... |
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Key U.S. stock indexes fell about 1% in midday trading Tuesday, while markets in Europe and Asia mostly finished higher. The top U.S. indexes in New York opened higher but slipped later in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue-chip stocks and the broader S&P 500 were both down about a.... |
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MONTREAL , March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Medicom is one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical-grade personal protective equipment, including surgical and respiratory masks. Medicom has their head office in Montreal , with offices around the globe and production facilities in Asia Europe and the United States
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MONTREAL , March 31, 2020 /CNW/ - Medicom is one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical-grade personal protective equipment, including surgical and respiratory masks. Medicom has their head office in Montreal , with offices around the globe and production facilities in Asia Europe and the United States . |
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Experts are sceptical about the usefulness of mass disinfection exercises. — West Asia News Agency handout via Reuters. SURABAYA, March 31 — A drone dispersed clouds of disinfectant in the sky above Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya today, a response to the coronavirus pandemic which is.... |
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MADRID (AP) — Spain's coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number Tuesday as the country's medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients, and the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic was far from over in Asia. |
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Improving economic news from China, the first region hit by the novel coronavirus, helped buoy most global stock markets, though futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were lower. Most Asian markets advanced, with the Hang Seng climbing 1.9% and the Shanghai Composite edging up 0.1%. |
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Shares of iClick Interactive Asia (NASDAQ: ICLK ) rose by 2% in pre-market trading after the company reported Q4 results. Quarterly Results. Earnings per share increased 110.00% over the past year to $0.002, which beat the estimate of ($0.02). Revenue of $56,675,000 up by 43. |
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On Monday, the World Bank warned that the coronavirus pandemic's economic fallout could cause China 's growth to come to a standstill while driving 11 million more people in East Asia into poverty. Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, said that the country was on.... |
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As worldwide infections soared past the 800,000 mark, New York's governor begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to 1 million more workers were needed. The World Health Organization warned the pandemic is "far from over" in Asia even if the epicenter has shifted. |
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Due to the rapid developments in the aquaculture industry, Artemia franciscana , originally an American species, has been introduced to Eurasia, Africa and Australia. In the present study, we used a partial sequence of the mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I mt- DNA COI ) gene and genomic.... |
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Daylily rustcaused by Puccinia hemerocallidis was confined to Eastern Asia until the disease was reported in Oceania, Africa, the Americas and Portugal in the 21st century. Although information on rust resistance of American cultivars is available, little is known about the resistance of European.... |
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A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) today at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea. Asian shares surged today after a rally in U.S. stocks, mostly spurred by health care companies' announcements of developments that could aid in the coronavirus outbreak. |
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From Scandinavia to South Africa, from the Americas to Asia “we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm,” Pope Francis said about the coronavirus pandemic on 27th March, “we have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented…..all of us called to row together”. |
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COVID-19 COULD PUSH 11 MILLION PEOPLE IN EAST ASIA INTO POVERTY, SAYS WORLD BANK. The pains from battling Covid-19 could last a long time with the World Bank warning that in a bad case scenario, East Asia and the Pacific could see up to 11 million people driven into poverty, with low wage and informal sector workers the most vulnerable. |
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Eastspring has decided to liquidate four fixed income funds in Asia holding equivalent to £6.1bn before coronavirus redemptions caused assets to shrink by up to 70%. The low-to-moderate risk funds were targeted at Thai investors seeking foreign fixed income exposure. |
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(Bloomberg) -- What’s the cost of becoming junk? South Africa will soon find out. Africa’s most industrialized nation lost its last investment-grade rating late on Friday when Moody’s Investors Service cut it to Ba1, citing a weak economy and an unreliable power sector. When markets re-opened on Monday in Asia, the effect was immediate. |
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By Maikel Jefriando. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus epidemic on Tuesday and said an additional $24.9 billion would be spent to cushion its impact on Southeast Asia's biggest economy. |
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Shravan Hanasoge has been a faculty member in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, since 2013. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University and then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.... |
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PHNOM PENH, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's economic growth is projected to slow sharply to 2.5 percent in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a World Bank's report released on Tuesday. The country's growth last year was strong at 7.1 percent, said the bank's East Asia and Pacific Economic Update. |
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