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The poor rush back on crowded trains and buses or walk. Despite all the talk about globalisation for the last 30 years, the current crisis is the first truly global one. It began in China, which used to be a byword for poverty but is now an economic superpower. It stayed in East Asia but was mastered best by South Korea. |
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JAKARTA - Mark Gilbert's plan to backpack around Southeast Asia fell apart as borders closed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The British national arrived in Bali, Indonesia, on March 16, after a visit to Laos. Gilbert was supposed to go to Vietnam after a short getaway on the Island of God but did.... |
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Two Indians were among the 70 new confirmed novel coronavirus cases reported in Singapore on Saturday, taking the total number of infections in the country to 802, according to the Ministry of Health. Out of the fresh cases, 41 are imported with travel history to Europe, North America, ASEAN and other parts of Asia. |
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Whether it is in Asia, Europe, Africa or the United States, there's general agreement: Health care workers, law enforcement, utility workers, food production and communications are generally exempt from lockdowns. But some lists of exempted activities reflect a national identity, or the efforts of lobbyists. |
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JAKARTA - Mark Gilbert's plan to backpack around Southeast Asia fell apart as borders closed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The British national arrived in Bali, Indonesia, on March 16, after a visit to Laos. Gilbert was supposed to go to Vietnam after a short getaway on the Island of God but did.... |
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, the country in Southeast Asia hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic , on Saturday received its largest consignment of medical supplies from China to date, with much-needed ventilators and masks among the donation. As Malaysia’s infection rates surged in recent weeks, it has been one of the top.... |
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2. As of 28 March 2020, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed and verified an additional 70 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore, of which 41 are imported and 29 are local cases who have no recent travel history abroad.
• The 41 imported cases 1 had travel history to Europe, North America, ASEAN and other parts of Asia. |
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After little more than 10 years, here comes a global economic recession again, led by the global epidemic, coronavirus. But this time, it is really “global” in which Asia is not excluded. Unlike in the previous case, this time the recession is visible too. |
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Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) has been forced to postpone the Asian Division I Championship, which was scheduled to take place in Colombo from April 29. This follows a decision taken by Asia Rugby (AR) because of the global pandemic caused by coronavirus. Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) President Lasitha Gunaratne.... |
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The report on ‘Global Car Satellite Radio Antennas Market to 2024’ provides a brief analysis of this industry dimensions, sales forecast and regional scope with the business. The Car Satellite Radio Antennas report analysis illustrates the challenges and the growth strategies embraced by players as a part of their spectral range with the industry. |
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FILE PHOTO: A traffic police officer wears a protective face mask and gloves, amid fear of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as he walks in Tehran, Iran March 26, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS.
DUBAI: Iran is to allocate 20 per cent of its annual state budget to fighting.... |
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bore a title that has always characterized our country. We are a people who have, in general, shunned the kind of ideology that has wreaked havoc in Europe, Asia, and South America, and have striven for practical solutions to political and social problems. |
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The world witnessed India’s continued brutalities in Kashmir and a prospective fear of a nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan against the backdrop of the Balakot crisis. Moreover, in August 2019 India changed the special constitutional status of the held Kashmir region by revoking.... |
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The South Asian region has always been regarded vulnerable to military escalation based on its ever-changing complex security dynamics and volatile relations between India and Pakistan. Since the year 2019, the prevalent security environment of theSouth Asian region has once again become a dominant regional and global concern. |
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Christians in Burma in this undated photo. U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. A pastor abducted at gunpoint by a rebel group in Myanmar’s Rakhine State last January and later presumed to be dead has been released and is now with his family, according to a U.S.-based persecution watchdog. |
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On the very same day, 5,000 miles away in Asia, the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in South Korea. The confluence was striking, but there the similarities ended. In the two months since that fateful day, the responses to coronavirus displayed by the US and South Korea have been polar opposites. |
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Foreign governments on Friday stepped up operations to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists stranded by the coronavirus pandemic in remote locations across South Asia, from Everest base camp to beach hotels in Sri Lanka. A plane chartered by Berlin took 304 people out of Kathmandu in the first of.... |
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Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI. Headline: ASIA/AFGHANISTAN – The only Catholic church in Afghanistan closes for the Covid-19 emergency. Kabul – The Catholic chapel of the Italian Embassy in Kabul – the only Catholic church in Afghanistan – has suspended celebrations to respond to the containment measures of the coronavirus. |
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Former India captain Bhaichung Bhutia will feature in Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) public awareness campaign on the COVID-19 pandemic, the continental body said. The #BreakTheChain campaign features some of Asia's biggest names in football, sharing inspiring messages of solidarity and timely.... |
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Trungnam Group, a leading player in the energy, construction and real estate sector in Vietnam, will be setting up the largest solar power plant in Southeast Asia region at an investment of 14 trillion VND ($592 million). The 450MW solar plant, which will be built in the south central province of.... |
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia expects the number of coronavirus cases to surge in mid-April, a health ministry official said on Saturday, as the country ramps up testing amid a nationwide shutdown. The number of confirmed cases in Malaysia has nearly doubled in the past week to 2,320, the highest in Southeast Asia, with 27 deaths. |
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The global Radio Paper market reached ~US$ xx Mn in 2018 and is anticipated grow at a CAGR of xx% over the forecast period 2019-2029 . In this Radio Paper market study, the following years are considered to predict the market footprint: History Year: 2014 – 2018; Base Year: 2018; Estimated Year: 2019; Forecast Year: 2019 2029. |
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Auto companies and suppliers around the world are ramping up production of critical healthcare products and machines – everything from cloth face masks to sophisticated ventilator systems – to meet a critical shortage of those items at hospitals and care facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. |
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“Stepping onto the plane everyone was wearing them, but as we got further into the flight you know there was a couple of staff members who didn't actually have masks and gloves on.
“I thought it was a requirement,” Ms Boreham said.
“It was a thought that ran through my mind travelling through Asia.... |
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The message started with an outlandish claim: The coronavirus was retreating in India because of “cosmic-level sound waves” created by a collective cheer citizens had been asked to join. Messages were pinging from phone to phone across this country of 1. |
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