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KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group Bhd (AAGB) chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and its executive chairman, Datuk Kamarudin Meranun have relinquished their executive positions within the company for two months, effective immediately, in the wake of an Airbus bribery probe. |
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For the past four days, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been calling for authoritarian governments in eastern Europe and Central Asia to ease restrictions on press freedom despite criticism for his own treatment of journalists at home. In Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan over the weekend.... |
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Chinese equities plunged almost eight percent Monday as nervous traders returned from their extended Lunar New Year break, hit by fears that the deadly coronavirus could hammer the country's economy. The steep losses led another sell-off across Asia following a painful week for global markets with.... |
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DW News DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 3 February 2020. Pakistani students in China plead with their government to evacuate them from coronavirus zones. But Pakistan says it has full faith China can look after its students. Why? And we look at the soluble solution to Bangladesh's plastic problem. |
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Turn north when leaving Phuket airport and find a whole other world - a long way from the hedonism of Patong, writes Teresa Ooi. You can't get more romantic than dining in splendid isolation by the beach with your own private chef and butler. The only distraction is the melodic sound of waves crashing on the sands. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Chinese shares tumbled and the yuan weakened as traders returned from an extended holiday amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak. Support measures from China’s government helped stem losses somewhat in Asia, while U.S. futures rose and Treasuries slipped. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Chinese shares tumbled and the yuan weakened as traders returned from an extended holiday amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak. Support measures from China’s government helped stem losses somewhat in Asia, while U.S. futures rose and Treasuries slipped. |
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SEOUL, South Korea – A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. Restaurants in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam have refused to accept Chinese customers. |
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HANOI: The problem of alcoholism hits Vietnam the hardest. Together with several Asian countries, the nation has decided to move for heavier punishments in drink-driving cases. According to vnexpress, emergency wards here on average received 100 to 130 accident victims a day, due to drink driving. |
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second budget in seven months disappointed investors who were hoping for big-bang stimulus to revive growth in Asia's third-largest economy. The fiscal plan -- delivered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday -- proposed tax cuts for individuals and wider.... |
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; Credit: © Shutterstock. Greenpeace and many other conservation groups have long been looking at rain forests that we all suspected were declining. Their comments on the forests of SE Asia have been proved very significant. These green patches shrink whenever you see them from the air. Between 2000, and 2012, Indonesia's tree population lost 6. |
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Executive director of the Asia Trade Centre Deborah Elms shares her viewpoint on why the deal is a game-changer, as well as explains the advantages and disadvantages for the business community. Now that the 15 Asian countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement have.... |
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Uzbekistan on Sunday for the final stop of a five-country tour in which he is maneuvering to undercut Chinese and Russian influence. Pompeo’s visit to the Central Asian country of 33 million will see him hold talks Monday with President Shavkat.... |
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NEW DELHI: 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. |
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HONG KONG/TOKYO -- A new form of respiratory virus -- originating in the central Chinese city of Wuhan -- has spread further in Asia and beyond. China's National Health Commission reported the death toll in China had reached 361 as of the end of Sunday, up by 57 from the previous day. |
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For decades, Beijing has sought to co-opt and lure its Southeast Asian neighbors into acquiescence with its maritime expansion through a package of economic incentives, military intimidation and a diplomatic charm offensive. But now major regional countries have begun to assert their sovereign rights with greater resolve. |
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TASHKENT -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was greeted by Uzbek Foreign Affairs Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov on February 3 after landing in Uzbekistan’s capital where he will conclude the last leg of his trip to eastern Europe and Central Asia. Pompeo is scheduled on the same day to take part in.... |
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NEW DELHI (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The signing of the tripartite peace agreement among different factions of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), the Indian government and the Assam authorities on January 28 has set the stage for an end to one of the longest-running insurgencies in the northeastern state of India. |
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Shares of Malaysia's AirAsia Group and unit AirAsia X fell on Monday, after allegations by Britain's Serious Fraud Office that Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million to win plane orders from Asia's largest budget airline group. AirAsia shares fell as much as 11% to 1. |
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When it came to Asia's natural environment during the year just past, this commentator tended to emphasize negative trends. Rising sea levels threatening coastlines in the Mekong Delta, for example, and scientists' predictions that Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City will be partly underwater by 2050. |
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As the United Nations enters its 75th year, the world is still rife with mistrust: the United States remains the dominant superpower but is on the wane, while Asian power is growing in the face of an increasingly fractured Europe, with an explosive Middle East sandwiched in between. |
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. Kathryn Diss is the ABC's North America correspondent based in Washington DC. She has also worked as the South-East Asia Correspondent in Bangkok. Kathryn is a multiplatform reporter and video journalist who started her career in regional Western Australia. |
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When it came to Asia's natural environment during the year just past, this commentator tended to emphasize negative trends. Rising sea levels threatening coastlines in the Mekong Delta, for example, and scientists' predictions that Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City will be partly underwater by 2050. |
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Futures pointed to a lower open for shares in Japan, while stocks in Australia dropped in early trade. Mainland Chinese stocks are set to return to trade at 9:30 a.m. HK/SIN on Monday following an extended holiday amid an ongoing virus outbreak that has taken at least 300 lives in the country so far. |
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When it came to Asia's natural environment during the year just past, this commentator tended to emphasize negative trends. Rising sea levels threatening coastlines in the Mekong Delta, for example, and scientists' predictions that Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City will be partly underwater by 2050. |
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; Credit: © Shutterstock. The tropical forests of South East Asia were unique. They supported apes, elephants and tigers, alongside myriad insect hordes and fascinating flora, including huge trees and wonderful fruits that maintained multiple bird, mammal and human diets. |
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