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People wait to cross a street in front of a stock indicator displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on January 9, 2020. BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP. Most Asian markets rose Friday but investors were struggling to maintain a rally triggered by easing US-Iran tensions the previous day as focus turned back to the global economic outlook. |
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Scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics conducted experiments with the latest version of a regional climate model, RegCM4.7. Southeast Asia has experienced impacts of climate change in recent decades, including rising temperatures and increasing extreme events. |
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Co-hosted by the ASEAN Secretariat, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, the event drew nearly 120 delegates, including government officials, economists and corporate executives from the bloc and international organisations in Hanoi. |
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While delivering the verdict on unprecedented lockdown in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the apex court has said that all orders of suspension of telecom services and those related to Section 144 of CrPC must be reviewed by the concerned authority within seven days. It added that all future orders must be reviewed in a timely manner. |
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Lightnet can offer cross-border remittance services with efficiency, speed, low cost and safety through a modern money-transfer system that relies on the reliable blockchain technology, said Chatchaval Jiaravanon, the company’s chairman and co-founder. |
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Hanoi and Vientiane are top two cheapest cities in Asia for backpackers to visit in 2020 while Bangkok offers the cheapest prices for a meal, a study conducted by UK-based Alpha Travel Insurance has revealed.
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, tops the list of 31 destinations listed on the company’s.... |
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The year is 2100. The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region — the world’s “Third Pole” — are vanishing as the planet warms, the ice that once fed the great rivers of Asia is all but lost, and with it much of the water needed to nurture and grow a continent. |
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TAIPEI (CNA) — Taiwan’s government has advised its nationals to avoid traveling to Iraq and some parts of Iran and urged Taiwanese who are already in those areas to leave immediately, as tension between Iran and the United States escalate.
In a statement posted late Wednesday on the website of the.... |
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The prosecution sought an arrest warrant for K-pop star Serungri on Friday over suspected illegal overseas gambling and procuring prostitutes for his investors.
The Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office said it had filed an arrest warrant for the 30-year-old former Big Bang member, on seven charges.... |
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In the previous presidential election in 2016, voter turnout hit a new low at 66.27 percent, according to data compiled by the Central News Agency (CNA). In fact, voter turnout has been in decline since it hit a record high at 82.69 percent in 2000, when, for the first time, Democratic Progressive.... |
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The 2015 Paris agreement saw nations commit to limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as a way of curbing the worst impacts of global warming. world Updated: Jan 11, 2020 04:29 IST.
A man rowing a boat on Brahmaputra in Assam.(AP File Phot o)
The year is 2100. |
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Without enough crab to meet demand, Capt. Neill’s Seafood was in over its head. So, the North Carolina seafood processor and its owner, Phillip R. Carawan, opted to package foreign crabmeat from South America and Asia in containers falsely labeled as “Product of USA” — $4 million worth of it, federal prosecutors said. |
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Sydney J. Harris. Last month (December 2019), the Indian Parliament passed a controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), dubbed as the “anti-Muslim law” as it grants citizenship to “persecuted” minorities except Muslims - who have flown from neighbouring countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to India. |
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ISLAMABAD - As the whole world is trying to de-escalate US-Iran tension, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells will travel to Pakistan from January 19 to January 22 and hold meetings with senior government officials to deliberate upon the matters of mutual and regional interests. |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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India plans to double crude oil imports from the US as part of its effort to reduce dependance on the volatile West Asia region, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter said. Oil purchases from the US, which started in 2017-18, have already crossed about 6 million tonnes a year. |
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Iraq welcomes India’s call for peace and stability in West Asia against the backdrop of the Iran-US stand-off, and the tensions in the region will not affect oil supplies, Iraqi ambassador Falah Abdulhasan Abdulsada said on Friday. Abdulsada said in an interview that all Indians living in Iraq are.... |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar.... |
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Investors are worried about possible attacks on oil facilities in Southern Iraq that could affect crude supplies into Asia, an analyst told CNBC. Iraq is the second-largest oil producer in OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. A disruption to its output level could make it.... |
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Georgia has ended an investment agreement with an international consortium for one of the biggest projects in the former Soviet country, the construction of a major deep sea port on the Black Sea coast, its infrastructure minister said. The nine-phase project to improve access to Central Asia and.... |
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Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Sangiran, a World Heritage archeological site on the island of Java, is home to dozens of hominin fossils, comprising three different species, including evidence of the earliest hominid migration to Southeast Asia. Until now, scientists have struggled to figure out the precise timing of the hominin migrations that populated Java. |
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by Burak Akinci. ANKARA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The traditional Turkish archery dates back to the period of early Turkic tribes in Central Asia. Today more and more young athletes are fascinated by this ancient martial art. Last December, traditional Turkish archery was listed as UNESCO's intangible.... |
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What is it? The Asiapacific Fund, run by Matthew Dobbs since its launch in 1995, invests across the likes of China, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, but excludes Japan and the Middle East. It aims to grow investors’ money over the long term, in excess of the MSCI All Countries Asia (excluding Japan) index. |
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Market Research Inc declares it will add a comprehensive analysis called the Global Coffee Cup Market to its massive repository. Covers a variety of existing and future developments around the world, including North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and India. |
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