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Drewry’s container port throughput index remained stagnant with no monthly change in January 2020. However, the index was close to three points (2.1%) down when compared with January 2019. Most regions witnessed a monthly increase in container port throughput index except Latin America and Asia (excl. |
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Asian refining margins for jet fuel dipped on Thursday as global airlines have kept most of their flights grounded to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Refining margins or cracks for jet fuel fell on Thursday to $2.29 a barrel over Dubai crude during Asian trade, down from $2.51 per barrel a day earlier. |
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Benchmark Dubai crude futures’ premium to ICE Brent ticked up in mid-morning Asian trade on Thursday as easing freight rates open up avenues for storage of excess crude barrels and stimulate demand for Middle East crude in Asia. At 11 am in Singapore Thursday, the May Brent-Dubai Exchange of Futures for Swaps widened to minus $4. |
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About half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa still have a “narrowing” opportunity to curb the spread of coronavirus in the local population, a World Health Organisation regional official said on Thursday. The virus has multiplied across Africa more slowly than in Asia or Europe, but more than.... |
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Initial projections were based on data limited to February and expectations that East Asia would bear the brunt of the immediate economic impact - but with the virus spreading worldwide and with many countries in lockdown mode, a far greater shock on supply and demand looks inevitable, it said. Many unknowns. |
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Protect daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners March 26, 2020, 8:42 pm As cases of COVID-19 escalate in South Asia, one of the world’s poorest and most populous regions, Amnesty International calls on the authorities there to put human rights at the heart of.... |
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WASHINGTON - Major U.S. stock indexes advanced 3% or more in Thursday trading, while European markets also moved up and Asian indexes fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue chip stocks, the S&P 500 and the technology-heavy Nasdaq index all gained after the U.S. |
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This undated file photo shows the logo of the Asian Development Bank on the fence of the multilateral lender’s headquarters in Mandaluyong City. (Xinhua photo) The Philippines’ local currency (LCY) bond market fell quarter-on-quarter amid a drop in government bonds, which the Asian Development Bank.... |
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PHILADELPHIA. When the coronavirus outbreak took hold in Asia two months ago, Bobby Ku called his parents, who live in Taiwan, every week. Despite the growing number of public health experts warning about the seriousness of COVID-19, Ku, a 33-year-old engineering consultant in Philadelphia, was unconcerned. |
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Test delivers reliable results at the point of care in less than 2.5 hours. - One of the world's first multiplex molecular diagnostic tests that can identify COVID-19 and distinguish it from nine other respiratory infections with similar symptoms, like influenza. |
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A couple stranded in Bali fear it could be months before they get a flight home as they begin quarantine from their hotel room. Benjamin Stokes and his partner Yasmin Chadwick, from Rochester , arrived on the Indonesian island last week having travelled around South East Asia.
Benjamin Stokes and is partner Yasmin Chadwick are stranded in Bali. |
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Asian markets mostly rose Thursday as investors breathed a sigh of relief that US senators have finally passed a gargantuan stimulus package for the world's top economy after being delayed by wrangling over details. The unprecedented $2 trillion plan -- described by Senate Majority Leader Mitch.... |
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The shrinking of this once-vast inland lake means winds more frequently pick up dust from the exposed lakebed.
Spring has arrived in Central Asia. And over the Aral Sea, that means there is dust in the air. On March 24, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua.... |
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WASHINGTON - Major U.S. stock indexes advanced 3% or more in Thursday trading, while European markets also moved up and Asian indexes fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue chip stocks, the S&P 500 and the technology-heavy Nasdaq index all gained after the U.S. |
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Almost nothing remains of the five lakes Mexico City was built on.
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal—"Asia's Nuremberg"—was created in 1997 to bring accountability for the Khmer Rouge era atrocities. 20 years and $320 million later, it has secured only three convictions. |
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WASHINGTON - Major U.S. stock indexes advanced 3% or more in early Thursday trading, even as markets fell in Asia and Europe. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue-chip stocks, the S&P 500 and the technology-heavy Nasdaq index all gained just hours after the U.S. |
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BANGKOK -- Some Southeast Asian startups have become household names. Omise is not one of them. Few consumers are aware of its existence. But if they have shopped online in Thailand or Singapore -- as more people are doing because of the coronavirus pandemic -- chances are they have crossed paths with the company. |
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The spread of the novel coronavirus has left the vulnerable and marginalised in grave peril as daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners face huge risks in the face of this calamity. The pandemic is poised to break into thousands of cases in South Asia as more.... |
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The global tech choices we make in the world — choices by China, Europe, Africa, India as well as other parts of Asia, South America, and North America to include the United States — will determine whether data and AI activities benefit us all on this planet. |
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Osaka, Japan - Geographically isolated from mainland Eurasia, the island nation of Japan has seen little in the way of population mixing for thousands of years. In fact, after two waves of human migration--one 40,000 years ago from Southeast Asia and one 3,000 years ago from the Korean.... |
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. |
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Expected Increased Revenue of $70,000,000 USD to Expand China's Southwest Market. CHONGQING, China March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- China Xiangtai Food Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: PLIN) (the "Company" or the "PLIN"), an emerging growth company primarily engaged in pork processing in China , today announced that.... |
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SINGAPORE March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3 rd edition of ProWine Asia ( Singapore ) scheduled for 13-16 July 2020 will be postponed to 2-5 March 2021 . The region's leading wines and spirits trade fair, ProWine Asia ( Singapore ) is jointly organised by Messe Duesseldorf Asia and Informa.... |
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Cleaners washing a street in Wuhan, China, with a high-pressure water gun on February 3. Getty Images The Chinese city of Wuhan is set to end its historic lockdown on April 8, but experts think the area could see a second wave of coronavirus cases after lift. |
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HANOI: Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps as waves of overseas citizens return home to escape a coronavirus pandemic spreading in Europe and the United States. Even though Vietnam is one of Southeast Asia's poorer nations, its efforts against the virus, praised at home,.... |
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