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READ MORE: Kazakhstan plane crash kills 12 according to sources The delegation consisted of Mr Zhao Yue, the general sales manager of Asia Pacific Regional Bureau at Xinhua; Mr Wang Xiaoming, its sales manager; Mr Tang Binhui from Xinhua’s Urdu service; Mr Liu Tian and Jamil Bhatti. |
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BANGKOK, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Thai government is set to remove marijuana and kratom from the list of narcotics, paving the way for more effective medical uses. Kratom is a tropical tree, a Mitragyna speciosa native to Southeast Asia, with leaves that contain compounds that can have psychotropic (mind-altering) effects. |
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Throughout 2019, West Asia and North Africa continued to experience the competition and conflicts that have blighted this region of 400 million people and 22 states for the last few decades. Wars continued in Syria, Yemen and Libya, with rival external players intervening with arms and funding to sustain the violence and bloodletting. |
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Piracy has surged this year along Southeast Asia’s straits of Malacca and Singapore, one of the world’s busiest trade routes, according to a watch group that tracks maritime security. Incidents along the shipping choke point have risen to 30, from 8 last year, according to data from ReCAAP ISC, a.... |
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A ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Dazzled Viewers in Asia and the Middle East This celestial event occurs when the moon is near its farthest point from Earth, allowing the blazing edges of the sun to shine around the edges
The moon moves in front of the sun in a rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse as seen from Tanjung Piai, Malaysia on December 26, 2019. |
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NEW YORK This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just in the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. |
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READ MORE: Talk of a new Cold War with China is misleading I Trudy Rubin With its military buildup and growing economic clout, Beijing made clear its intent to challenge America’s positions and alliances in East Asia (including Taiwan), in the Indo-Pacific, and beyond.
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A friend called recently and said he was off to Manila at the start of a long trip around Southeast Asia. He knew the cooking of Thailand and Vietnam very well. He had a fair sense of what to expect in Indonesia. But his experience with the defining dishes of the Philippines was thin at best — mostly the occasional plate of chicken adobo. |
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A ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Dazzled Viewers in Asia and the Middle East This celestial event occurs when the moon is near its farthest point from Earth, allowing the blazing edges of the sun to shine around the edges
The moon moves in front of the sun in a rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse as seen from Tanjung Piai, Malaysia on December 26, 2019. |
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. American startups attracted more funding than the next 30 countries combined.
NEW YORK Dec. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- HexGn released a study of the funding trends in the global startup ecosystem in 2019; the team analyzed over 60,000 deals and one million data points for the report. |
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NEW YORK Dec. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Â HexGn released a study of the funding trends in the global startup ecosystem in 2019; the team analyzed over 60,000 deals and one million data points for the report. Globally, the total funding for technology startups this year dipped by 22 percent to $293.... |
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Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some diseases, like polio, that the world was close to wiping out. "It’s been a tough year for infectious diseases,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin of the U. |
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American startups attracted more funding than the next 30 countries combined. NEW YORK Dec. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- HexGn released a study of the funding trends in the global startup ecosystem in 2019; the team analyzed over 60,000 deals and one million data points for the report. |
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NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec. 27, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- HexGn released a study of the funding trends in the global startup ecosystem in 2019; the team analyzed over 60,000 deals and one million data points for the report.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec 27, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- HexGn released a study.... |
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European stock markets advanced yesterday following the festive break and a mixed showing across Asia. The pound gained against the dollar and euro, as European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen expressed “serious concern” on whether the bloc can conclude a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain by the end of the next year. |
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The holiday spending results have added to the positive sentiment across trading floors following the US-China trade thaw. HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian markets were mixed yesterday following another strong lead from Wall Street where tech stocks won big with strong Christmas results. |
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Paris: At least 15 natural disasters linked to climate change this year caused damage of over $1 billion and seven of them cost at least $10 billion, British charity Christian Aid said Friday. This year is set to be the second hottest year in history and each of the disasters in the report has a link with climate change, Christian Aid said. |
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Fourteen South Asian citizens said India’s Citizenship Amendment Act had the potential to deepen geopolitical divides among the countries of the region. “We independent citizens of countries neighbouring India wish to register our reservations about the Citizenship Amendment Act adopted by India’s.... |
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Sunburn, Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival (EDM) and third-largest dance festival in the world after Tomorrowland and Ultra, has often been criticised for the popularity of illicit substances at the event, reports citing Two visitors from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh died in the.... |
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Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Friday amid optimism U.S.-Chinese trade relations are improving. |
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Jakarta : From Thailand to Cambodia, through Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and on to Indonesia – 2019 will not go down in history as a good one for the advancement of human rights and democracy in south-east Asia. And too often the Australian government sat quietly.... |
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Invesco Asia Trust plc (IAT) As at close of business on 24-December-2019 NAV per Ordinary share (unaudited) with Debt at Par & Fair Value EXCLUDING undistributed current year revenue 327.54p INCLUDING current year revenue 330.25p The fair value of debt is not materially different from the carrying value. |
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BTS perform during iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert at The Forum in Inglewood, California, December 6, 2019. — Reuters pic. LOS ANGELES, Dec 27 — They’ve conquered the world and released three best-selling albums in 2019. Now K-pop band BTS is making its debut on the celebrity auction circuit. |
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Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Friday amid optimism U.S.-Chinese trade relations are improving. |
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Jakarta : From Thailand to Cambodia, through Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and on to Indonesia – 2019 will not go down in history as a good one for the advancement of human rights and democracy in south-east Asia. And too often the Australian government sat quietly.... |
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