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Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia’s decade-low inflation rate has sparked concern among several economists that it foreshadows a further weakening of the largest economy in Southeast Asia. The consumer price index (CPI) inched up 2.72 percent in 2019, the lowest since 1999 when the CPI rose by 2.13 percent. |
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posted January 04, 2020 at 07:40 pm by Manila Standard Business The global corporate legal affairs department of Filipino-run International Container Terminal Services Inc. was honored recently by the Asian Legal Business magazine as finalist for the Philippine In-House Team of the Year,.... |
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. Contributed by NAMPA / DPA. Dortmund, Germany (dpa) - One of the biggest events in the carrier pigeon enthusiast's calendar kicked off in the German city of Dortmund on Saturday. Around 200 exhibitors from Europe, America, Asia and elsewhere are expected at the fair, the largest of its kind in the.... |
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In August of 1972, the Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal was working on an article about theatre in New York’s Chinatown. He was focussing on the challenges faced by performers who had recently emigrated from Hong Kong and Taiwan. They were shut out of mainstream productions, and the grassroots theatre scene was still maturing. |
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Iranian policemen in Tehran, on Friday, hold pictures of the late Iranian major general Qassem Soleimani during a protest against the assassination of Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport. Nazanin Tabatabaee, West Asia News Agency via Reuters. |
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Kathmandu, January 3. Subash Tamang defended the title of the Faldo Series Nepal Championship here at the Gokarna Golf Club today. The 13th South Asian Games double gold medal winner, 17-year-old Tamang carded two-under 70 in the third and final round to post the 54-hole total of 11-under 205 and win the overall title for the second straight year. |
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The award was received by Sykes Asia Inc. senior vice president of area operations and shared services John Sneed who was also recognized as one of Asia’s outstanding leaders. Starting its operations in the Philippines in 1997, Sykes is the first multinational call center to operate in the country. |
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Global demand for automobiles has been increased at exponential rate especially since last 2 decades. Asia Pacific region is major contributor with China emerged as market leader. Even though automobile industry has seen little slowdown especially in China & India it still growing with excellent growth rate. |
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New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ''Nishank'' on Saturday said at a time when terrorism is threatening peace across the globe, the world needs a Mahatma Gandhi. Addressing a gathering at the launch of ''World Book Fair 2020'' at Pragati Maidan in Delhi, he said, "Asia's largest book fair is celebrating Gandhi. |
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The assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani by US airstrikes in Iraq, brings West Asia nearer the precipice. By this action, President Trump, who cannot get out of Afghanistan, has got himself deeper into the West Asian Quagmire. Americans know power and strategy. They don’t understand a quantity called the people. |
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The sector is expected to grow by an average of 2.6 per cent year-on-year to reach 17.4 gigawatts by 2028, according to a Global Geothermal Forecast report by Fitch Solutions, with Europe and Asia projected to account for approximately 78 per cent of the global total geothermal capacity additions. |
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan.4. By Elnur Baghishov - Trend: Since the beginning of this Iranian year (March 21, 2019), 800,000 tons of goods have been exported from Iran to Central Asian countries by 13,000 cargo railcars, Director General of the Iranian Khorasan Railway Office Mostafa Naseri Varg said,
reports citing IRNA. |
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U.K.-based retailer Tesco PLC (TSCO.LN) is seeking bids for its supermarket businesses in Asia, which have a potential value of as much as $9 billion, people familiar with the matter said Friday. The first round of bids are due by middle of January, the people said. Tesco declined to comment. |
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A road accident on the Asia Highway near the Myanmar-Thailand border in which two vehicles collided reportedly killed 19 people. House of Representatives MP from Kawkareik constituency Soe Htay said, “Toyota Pro box passenger vehicle and an express bus collided and then Pro box car first fell into the gorge and then the commercial vehicle fell too. |
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Vietnamese star midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has slipped two places from 2018 to 17th among 24 best Asian footballers of 2019.
With eight points, Hai still stood above some famous players like Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan, who plays for Premier League club Brighton, Japanese left-back Yuto.... |
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Visitors wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets try a driving system at a Nissan Motors booth during the CES Asia Show in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Photo: Bloomberg.
Trump administration officials to talk tech policy at annual CES industry extravaganza in Las Vegas. |
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Two provocative drama series are set to launch the new year in high gear for viewers of HBO and HBO Asia. “The Outsider,” based on Stephen King’s acclaimed 2018 horror-mystery novel, and the searing drama anthology “Invisible Stories,” about the lives of residents in a housing estate in Singapore,.... |
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AirAsia Philippines is increasing domestic and international flights ahead of the busy summer season this year. The budget airline, part of Malaysia’s Air Asia Group, announced more flights in hubs outside Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which suffers from congestion issues. |
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Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki on Friday called for banks and other financial firms to improve their risk management processes and channel more funds into the real economy.
Hong made the remarks at a meeting for the new year with heads of economic and financial institutions, including Bank of Korea Gov. |
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Iranian policemen hold pictures of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, during a protest against the assassination of Soleimani, in Tehran January 3, 2020. — Picture by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via Reuters. BAGHDAD, Jan 4 — A fresh air strike hit pro-Iran fighters.... |
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Government-backed development banks of Japan, China and South Korea have signed an agreement with public and private financial institutions in Southeast Asia to meet growing demand for infrastructure projects in the fast-growing region. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the China.... |
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In its newly released International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019) Reference case, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. Most of this growth comes from countries that are not in the Organization for.... |
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High capacity utilization continued Thursday at US LNG export terminals, with feedgas deliveries near record levels, amid robust winter demand and strong market fundamentals in Asia and Europe, S&P Global Platts Analytics data showed. The activity comes as the first cargo shipped from Kinder.... |
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, introduced S. 3081, the Cambodia Democracy Act, in response to the deteriorating human rights and democracy situation in Cambodia. |
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of Indian oil and gas imports (and India imports the majority of the oil it consumes). It is also a growing source of investment for India. In addition, Delhi has hoped that this region will serve as a transit route to Afghanistan and Central Asia, including through the Iranian port of Chabahar that.... |
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