A woman has been left stranded in Singapore after part of her wheelchair was lost while travelling with Emirates from Manchester airport. Gemma Quinn, 35, who was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident as a child in 1992, booked a 19-day trip across Asia with her two carers at a cost of more than £15,000. |
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Despite the latest Sino-American phase one deal to ease tensions over trade, one former top US official is now calling for a decoupling between both economies, reported the
(SCMP). Former US ambassador to India Ashley Tellis explains in a new book titled Strategic Asia 2020: US-China Competition.... |
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(Berlin) - Russian police rounded up and arbitrarily detained scores of Central Asian migrant workers, beating many of them, in a series of raids in mid-December 2019, Human Rights Watch said today. The raids, which were carried out in at least six regions in Russia, involved detentions of migrant.... |
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. Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. TOKYO -- Japan's supermarket sales in November decreased 1.4 percent from a year earlier on a same-store basis, down for the second straight month, continuing to be affected by a consumption tax increase on Oct. 1, the Japan Chain Stores Association said Tuesday. |
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Earlier this year, Google Maps team rolled out its #LookBeforeYouLeave campaign to remind commuters to check Google Maps’ real-time traffic updates on their phones before hitting the road. Sapna Chadha, Google’s head of marketing in India and Southeast Asia, writes about the exercise in her blog,.... |
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A woman has been left stranded in Singapore after part of her wheelchair was lost while travelling with Emirates from Manchester airport. Gemma Quinn, 35, who was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident as a child in 1992, booked a 19-day trip across Asia with her two carers at a cost of more than £15,000. |
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Manila: An intensifying storm struck the Philippines on Christmas Eve, disrupting holiday travel plans in Asia's largest Catholic nation. Typhoon Phanfone, called Ursula locally and upgraded from a tropical storm, hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, stranding thousands of travellers and.... |
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Manila: An intensifying storm struck the Philippines on Christmas Eve, disrupting holiday travel plans in Asia's largest Catholic nation. Typhoon Phanfone, called Ursula locally and upgraded from a tropical storm, hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, stranding thousands of travellers and.... |
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Gemma Quinn, 35, was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident in 1992 and made headlines as a child due to a heartfelt letter she sent to Superman actor Christopher Reeve about his own paralysis. An experienced traveller, Ms Quinn booked a 19-day trip of a lifetime across Asia with her two carers at a cost of more than £15,000. |
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Manila: An intensifying storm struck the Philippines on Christmas Eve, disrupting holiday travel plans in Asia's largest Catholic nation. Typhoon Phanfone, called Ursula locally and upgraded from a tropical storm, hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, stranding thousands of travellers and.... |
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Manila: An intensifying storm struck the Philippines on Christmas Eve, disrupting holiday travel plans in Asia's largest Catholic nation. Typhoon Phanfone, called Ursula locally and upgraded from a tropical storm, hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, stranding thousands of travellers and.... |
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NEW YORK Dec. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Forecast in Asia-Pacific Markets to 2028. Summary Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05816846/?utm_source=PRN Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects children. |
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RIYADH / 24 December 2019 – A delegation from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has visited the headquarters of the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) in Riyadh. UN Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Dr. |
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NEW YORK Dec. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Forecast in Asia-Pacific Markets to 2028. Summary Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05816846/?utm_source=PRN Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects children. |
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NEW YORK Dec. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Forecast in Asia-Pacific Markets to 2028. Summary Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05816846/?utm_source=PRN Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects children. |
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Summary Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA orthopneumovirus belonging to the family of Pneumoviridae.Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in infants, with a peak age of hospitalization between 2-3 months of age. |
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BEIJING - China hosted the leaders of squabbling neighbours South Korea and Japan for their first official meeting in over a year on Tuesday, flexing its diplomatic muscle with America's two key Asian allies and seeking unity on how to deal with a belligerent North Korea. |
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The department took that specimen, which had died, though the resident reported seeing a live hornet buzzing near a bird feeder before escaping into a nearby forest.
It's unusual to see the Asian giant hornet in Washington for a few reasons. It's never been seen in the state before, for one -- it's native to east Asia. |
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By Anna Hirtenstein. Markets were largely quiet ahead of the Christmas holiday, with some increases in Asia building on gains from the latest step forward in U.S.-China trade relations. "It's very thin volumes at this time of year, markets move on very small amounts of share trading," said Gerry.... |
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Looking ahead and coming off our recent Tech Asia trip, we believe the underlying iPhone demand remains comfortably ahead of Street/original expectations for FY20 with 185 million/190 million units now the line in the sand for Apple to hit with positively trending ASPs. |
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Road-feeder services to airports are slowly increasing in Southeast Asia but are still much less common than in Europe and the U.S., where highway infrastructure is well developed and transit times are relatively short. Typically, airlines arrange truck shipments collected at or near one airport,.... |
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Governments in Southeast Asia say more regional cooperation is needed to tackle a growing drug problem. Much of the methamphetamine and opium comes from Myanmar , where armed groups use drug money to fund their wars against the government. But as Wayne Hay reports, one of those armies says it is.... |
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With the telecom industry growing at 6-12 percent annually, faster than the GDP growth rates of many Asian developing economies, the industry is a “prime contributor” to economic development in the five countries, said Hans Martin Hoegh Henrichsen, Telenor Myanmar’s chief corporate affairs officer. |
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Myanmar kicked off its first-ever international investment summit in late January in Naypyitaw. The two-day event showcased 120 projects worth US$3 billion (4.5 trillion kyats) in 10 states and regions and aimed to attract major investment from East Asian countries, including economic zones,.... |
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The launch in Thailand in March of VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia 2020, as a joint event, is set to combine under one roof the expertise of two show organisers, VICTAM and VIV . Following the news of their two separate shows joining forces in July 2019, the new, unified title, VICTAM.... |
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