AFT Pharmaceuticals is a New Zealand-based specialty pharmaceutical company that currently sells over 130 prescription specialty generics and OTC products through its own salesforce in New Zealand, Australia and South-East Asia. The company recently reported its H120 results. Operating revenue grew by a strong 22.

. The writer is development practitioner working with South Asia Partnership-Pakistan. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The quality of democracy in Pakistan is on decline, year after year. Though the country is in its third democratic regime since 2008, its democracy is still fragile and vulnerable to traditional power centres.

Child marriage is an aberration that has permeated the boundaries of nationality, religion and race. Be it in Africa, Middle East, Latin America or Asia, child marriage nips the dreams of young girls in the bud. One in five girls in the world are married off before they reach 18, as per data by a....

Singapore’s athletes and officials encountered what they called “teething problems” upon arrival in Manila for the 30th Southeast Asian Games, which the Philippines is hosting for the fourth time. But delegation head Juliana Seow said they will work with organizers to resolve the issues, which....

Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dr. Jonathan Dowling Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics at Louisiana....

A daunting variety of governments across Asia are seizing control of the internet. Employing a growing range of tactics, administrations in democracies and non-democracies alike are working to diminish online space for expression, civic activism, and secure communication.

In an article in The Wall Street Journal sometime towards the end of September this year, the writer argued how technological leadership has become an “existential issue” for China, the world’s second largest economy. With the Asian giant facing problems of heavy debt, a rapidly aging population and....

Russia is about to complete a fresh expansion of its oil pipelines to the Pacific coast that will cement its role as a top Asian supplier and allow it to ship a third of its total oil exports to Asia-Pacific markets. Just 10 years ago, Russia, the world’s second largest oil exporter after Saudi....

Malaysia will return 42 containers of illegal plastic waste to the UK, which has agreed to take them back, as the Southeast Asian nation continues its fight against becoming the world’s dumping ground for trash. The containers, which arrived at Penang Port between March 2018 and March 2019, were....

. Delegations from organisations promoting peace met in Vientiane on Sunday for the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of the World Peace Council (WPC). The event, hosted by the Lao Committee for Peace and Solidarity, aimed to create a conducive environment for building sustainable world peace while....

. In pictures: Demanding an end to violence against women. © 2017 ChinaPost All Rights Reserved | x | Asia News Network.

Many parts of Indonesia, home to the world’s 3rd-largest tropical forests, are blighted by deforestation and fires. (AFP pic) JAKARTA: Asia’s pulp and paper giants — which supply materials for stationery, tissues and toilet roll — are being urged by environmentalists to follow the palm oil industry....

As the lone country in Southeast Asia where teenage pregnancy is on the rise, the Philippines is considering the use of injectable male contraceptive to help address the problem. During the weekly Pandesal Forum in Quezon City, Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) Undersecretary Juan....

. MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global and Southeast Asia Organic Butter Industry, 2018 Market Research Report” new report to its research database. The report spread across 149 pages with table and figures in it. This comprehensive Organic Butter research report includes a brief on these trends....

. MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global and Southeast Asia Organic Cocoa Industry, 2018 Market Research Report” new report to its research database. The report spread across 136 pages with table and figures in it. This comprehensive Organic Cocoa research report includes a brief on these trends that....

Cape Town - Legendary former All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens has called for the current Super Rugby system to be scrapped in order for New Zealand and Australia to venture into the Asian market. In an interview with , Mehrtens said he had a solution for New Zealand to prevent their star players from signing lucrative deals in Europe.

. MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global and Southeast Asia Organic Coconut Flour Industry, 2018 Market Research Report” new report to its research database. The report spread across 138 pages with table and figures in it. This comprehensive Organic Coconut Flour research report includes a brief on....

. MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global and Southeast Asia Organic Coconut Sugar Industry, 2018 Market Research Report” new report to its research database. The report spread across 140 pages with table and figures in it. This comprehensive Organic Coconut Sugar research report includes a brief on....

. MarketResearchNest.com adds “Global and Southeast Asia Organic Chocolate Industry, 2018 Market Research Report” new report to its research database. The report spread across 141 pages with table and figures in it. This comprehensive Organic Chocolate research report includes a brief on these....

(Bloomberg) -- A global glut of natural gas has gotten so massive that U.S. exporters could soon face their worst-case scenario: Halting shipments to get supply and demand back in balance. Prices for the heating and power-plant fuel may collapse in Europe and Asia next year to levels that would force U.

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In recognition of its robust Intellectual Property (IP) rights protection, Singapore ranks top again in Asia in the 2019 edition of the International Property Rights Index (IPRI). Globally, Singapore moved up one notch to be placed fourth, behind other IP powerhouses Finland (1st), Switzerland (2nd) and New Zealand (3rd).

The introduction of patent term extensions is a positive step as China looks to become an IP powerhouse, but further clarification is needed, say Xiaofan Chen and Hai Liu of AWA Asia. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress published draft amendments to the Patent Law for public comments on January 4 2019.

London [UK], Nov 25 (ANI): Academicians and South Asia experts have raised concerns over the growth of terror groups and jihadi outfits in Pakistan. While speaking at a recently held event 'Reimagining Pakistan - a global perspective', the experts demanded that the United States should cut off all the aid it is providing to Pakistan.

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