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The Westerdam was supposed to be taking its 2,257 passengers and crew on a 14-day cruise around east Asia, beginning in Hong Kong on February 1 and ending on Saturday in Yokohama, Japan. But the vessel was turned away from Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand over fears it was carrying.... |
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Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early sell-off, though Japan's benchmark declined as investors reacted to news of a growing number of cases.
Three officials with a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles have been charged as part of an alleged scheme to trick followers into becoming.... |
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News of the first death from the virus in Japan rattled Asian markets, already on edge after hopes that the epidemic was stabilizing appeared to be dashed by a sharp rise in the number of cases on Thursday. In its latest update, China’s National Health Commission said it had recorded 121 new deaths.... |
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Jakarta : For the last month, the world has watched as COVID-19 has taken hold in China and then travelled around the world. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Australia. Across Asia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam and Hong Kong have all reported multiple cases. |
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By Amlan Chakraborty. NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Asia has seen a sharp decline in match-fixing over the last six years, the Asian Football Confederation and its integrity partner told Reuters, though illicit gambling has grown thanks partly to the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method. |
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Asian shares rose cautiously on Friday (Feb 14), on course to post the second straight week of gains, helped by hopes governments will make provisions to soften the impact on their economies from the coronavirus epidemic. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan ticked up 0. |
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Asia Online posts claiming student arrested due to COVID-19 untrue, say Johor health authorities.
Passengers wear protective masks while they wait for Light Rail Transit train at a station, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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HANGZHOU, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A freight train loaded with 82 standard containers left a railway station in the city of Jinhua, eastern China's Zhejiang Province Thursday, marking the resumption of the province's export to Belt and Road countries since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. |
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-step for the whole of South Asia. The new legislation is limited to Sindh province but speaks volumes about the state of women’s rights in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, countries where agriculture is the biggest sector and women form the largest labour population. |
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AKIPRESS.COM - Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Chingiz Aidarbekov participated in the 9th meeting of the EUCentral Asia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (WGECC) on February 12-13 in Brussels, the MFA reported. During the meeting, Aidarbekov told the participants about negative.... |
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(Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Thursday said it had canceled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia and joined larger rival Carnival Corp in warning that its full-year earnings would be hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The epidemic, which originated in China's Hubei province and has killed more.... |
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Luxury cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) Thursday said it has cancelled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The company expects the cancellations to have $0.65 per share impact on its full year 2020 earnings. |
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Meanwhile, rapper Stormzy postponed the Asia leg of his tour due to coronavirus and dental surgeries in the UK warned they were facing a desperate shortage of face masks due to Chinese supply problems. In China, the number of deaths from coronavirus has jumped to more than 1,350, with more than 60,000 recorded infections. |
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(Bangkok, November 14, 2019) – Cambodian authorities should drop the bogus espionage charges against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin were arrested on November 14, 2017 but have not been brought to trial. |
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F or over 500 years, until its decline in the 14th century, Cambodia was the heart of one of the most prosperous civilisations in Asia. Its Khmer kings fended off foreign armies and mobilised their subjects to construct hundreds of ostentatious Hindu and Buddhist temples. |
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PHNOM PENH -- Block A -- Cambodia's most promising oil concession -- is the dream that refuses to die. The concession's Apsara field, if fully tapped, would help diversify an economy heavily reliant on garment exports -- and increasingly Chinese investment. |
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have detained two Cambodian opposition activists while they were waiting to board a flight to Thailand in what is seen as part of a crackdown on exiled dissidents in Southeast Asia, a rights groups said late on Tuesday. |
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Futures pointed to a lower open for Japanese stocks, while shares in Australia were little changed in early trade. Investors will continue to watch for developments on the coronavirus outbreak following Thursday's spike in the number of cases reported after Hubei changed the way cases are diagnosed. |
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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Thursday said it had canceled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia and joined larger rival Carnival Corp in warning that its full-year earnings would be hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
The epidemic, which originated in China's Hubei province and has killed more than 1,300.... |
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Meanwhile, rapper Stormzy postponed the Asia leg of his tour due to coronavirus and dental surgeries in the UK warned they were facing a desperate shortage of face masks due to Chinese supply problems. In China, the number of deaths from coronavirus has jumped to more than 1,350, with more than 60,000 recorded infections. |
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(RTTNews) - Luxury cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) Thursday said it has cancelled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The company expects the cancellations to have $0.65 per share impact on its full year 2020 earnings. |
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(Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Thursday said it had canceled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia and joined larger rival Carnival Corp in warning that its full-year earnings would be hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The epidemic, which originated in China's Hubei province and.... |
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Men watch the cruise ship MS Empress of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean International, as it leaves the bay of Havana, Cuba, June 5, 2019. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini.
February 13, 2020. (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Thursday said it had canceled 18 cruises in Southeast Asia and joined larger rival Carnival Corp |
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Electronic logging device market report gives detailed insights into R&D activities, upcoming technologies, and new product launches in the electronic logging device market. Major driving factors of mandate for fleet management in North America and in some of Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. |
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TORONTO - Two of Canada’s largest insurance companies got lifts from the Asian market in their latest quarter. Sun Life Financial Inc. said its overall net income surged 24 per cent to $719 million in its fourth quarter, with its Asian operations contributing $136 million, or nine per cent more than in the same period the year before. |
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