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An Adelaide couple on a cruise through Asia say they have been "rejected again" and are feeling unloved after the Holland America liner was denied entry to several scheduled ports due to the coronavirus threat.
Grandparents David Holst and his wife Judy are on board Holland America's MS Westerdam,.... |
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Small business lending is a huge market that has attracted massive attention from VC investors in recent years. Startups like Kabbage have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital and debt to create lending platforms for businesses, and others in the space like
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TM , the only provider of a cloud-based, next-generation customer communications management platform, today announced it has appointed Nick Smith to lead sales efforts in Asia Pacific. Smith is an industry veteran with expertise in both customer communications and data management. |
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India's new budget is unlikely to drag Asia's third- biggest economy out of its worst slowdown in more than a decade as the government has proposed only moderate spending increases and small cuts in personal taxes, economists said on Sunday. They said there was a risk the government might miss its.... |
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Over the past few months, Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies churned exposure to Indian stocks in his Asia ex-Japan portfolio for long-only absolute-return investors. The global investor bought SBI Life Insurance and HDFC Life Insurance, which now account for 5 per cent.... |
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India’s largest power generating company NTPC Limited has raised syndicated Japanese yen loan (JPY) worth $750 million. This is the largest ever syndicated JPY loan raised by any Asian company from offshore Samurai loan market, said NTPC in a public statement. It is also the highest ever single foreign currency loan raised by NTPC. |
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has been named the Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific 2020, by the Banker magazine, a unit of Financial Times (FT). The award is given to central bankers who have “best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy. |
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The dollar strengthened and a gauge of global stocks jumped, lifted by an unexpected rebound in U.S. manufacturing that helped temper fears that caused stocks overnight in Asia to plunge on the potential impact of the coronavirus in China.
Gold fell 1%, retreating from a four-week high, as China's.... |
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Bhavan is Asia Correspondent for the SCMP, covering breaking news, politics, diplomacy, trade and Southeast Asian macroeconomic trends. His work for the Post's Asia desk also focuses on the region's multifaceted interactions with the United States and China. A Singapore native, Bhavan previously worked for Agence France-Presse. |
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Kamilov Abdulaziz Khafizovich in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Pool.
February 3, 2020. (Reuters) – Uzbekistan on Monday gently resisted Washington’s efforts to rally China’s central Asian.... |
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February 3, 2020. By Herbert Lash. NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar strengthened and a gauge of global stocks jumped, lifted by an unexpected rebound in U.S. manufacturing that helped temper fears that caused stocks overnight in Asia to plunge on the potential impact of the coronavirus in China. |
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MIAMI (AP) - Wildlife officials say they have seized 1,400 pounds of shark fins at a Miami port. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that the shipment of dried fins was believed to have originated in South America and was likely bound for Asia. It arrived in Miami in 18 boxes. |
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Norwegian won't issue $32,000 refund to family that canceled Asian cruise over coronavirus A Maui woman said that when her family tried to cancel their upcoming Asia cruise, Norwegian wouldn't refund any of the $32,000 they'd already paid. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday. |
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday faced more questions about his treatment of journalists after dropping a National Public Radio reporter from a weekend trip though Eastern Europe and Central Asia. During stops in Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, Pompeo called for.... |
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February 3, 2020, 10:36 pm Religious leaders in South Asia meeting with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Paro, Bhutan, have agreed to work in support of child rights in all eight of the region’s countries, said a UNICEF report. It said: The 45 religious leaders of various faiths have.... |
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service said the shipment of dried fins arrived in 18 boxes and was believed to have originated in South America, and likely bound for Asia.
Officials estimated the total commercial value to be between NZ$1million and $1.5 million. |
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Hitachi, a Japanese multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Tokyo, is keen to enhance their market share in Bangladesh by providing high quality and environmentally friendly products, according to Hiroshi Honda, a general manager of Hitachi Home Electronics Asia. |
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Cochin Port Trust chairperson M. Beena has won the first-ever Ambassador of Knowledge Award in Asia instituted by International Quizzing Association. The award was presented to Ms. Beena by Anurakshat Gupta, director, IQA Asia, on Saturday on the sidelines of Deva Jnan, the national level.... |
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia : Asia's indoor soccer championship in Turkmenistan was postponed Monday because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Asian Football Confederation said its decision not to play the futsal tournament scheduled Feb. 26-March 8 was "to ensure the safety and well-being of all participating teams and stakeholders. |
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Islamabad, Feb 3 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday embarked on a two-day visit to Malaysia to placate the country's leadership after he skipped a major summit of Muslim nations in Kuala Lumpur, solidify the bilateral strategic partnership and discuss the situation in South Asia. |
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Early this year, China confirmed the first case of a new strain of coronavirus (2019nCoV) isolated from a cluster of people with a respiratory syndrome in Wuhan. Within weeks it had spread to 11 countries – mostly in Asia, some in Europe, and the US. Thousands of cases have since then been confirmed globally . |
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According to Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the total revenues generated by telecom industry in Canada was USD 38.79 billion in 2017. CRIFAX added a report on ‘Global Exam Management Software Market, 2020-2028’ to its database of market research collaterals.... |
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U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo traveled to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as part of a Central Asian snap visit, and today he will take part in a ministerial meeting in the C5+1 (Central Asia-U.S.) format, during which the U.S. will present its new Central Asia strategy. The priorities of the new U. |
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KEY POINTS Bitcoin is once again asserting itself as an asset that investors can rely on during an economic crisis; BTC spiked to $9,600 after the Chinese stocks resumed trading on Monday; Virus fears have led stocks lower and the price of Bitcoin higher. |
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Freight rates for supertankers on the Mideast Gulf and U.S. Gulf routes to Asia have fallen to their lowest since mid-September as the coronavirus outbreak hit Chinese oil demand, ship brokers told Reuters. China's Sinopec Corp, Asia's largest refiner, and so-called "teapot" independent refineries.... |
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