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This is moment a young Scottish woman placed in a induced coma after falling ill with pneumonia in Vietnam touched down in the UK on her journey home. had been in a critical condition since developing the life-threatening illness on a dream trip to Asia at the end of September. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Pope Francis met Monday with victims of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster and called for the world to rethink its reliance on nuclear power as it considers the planet it wants to leave to future generations. Francis recalled that Japan’s Catholic bishops called for the abolition of nuclear.... |
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The Indonesia stock market has finished lower in back-to-back sessions, retreating almost 55 points or 0.9 percent along the way. The Jakarta Composite Index now rests just above the 6,100-point plateau although it may stop the bleeding on Monday. The global forecast for the Asian suggests mild.... |
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TOKYO (AP) — Pope Francis met Monday with victims of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster and called for the world to rethink its reliance on nuclear power as it considers the planet it wants to leave to future generations. Francis recalled that Japan’s Catholic bishops called for the abolition of nuclear.... |
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MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS bounced 0.8%, after losing 0.4% last week. Japan's Nikkei .N225 firmed 0.9%, while Australian stocks rose 0.5% and Shanghai blue chips
0.4%. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 added 0.3%, while EUROSTOXX 50 futures gained 0.6%. On Saturday, U. |
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0.4%. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 ESc1 added 0.3%, while EUROSTOXX 50 futures STXEc1 gained 0.6%. On Saturday, U.S. national security adviser Robert O’Brien said an initial trade agreement with China is still possible by the end of the year, though he warned Washington would not turn a blind eye to what happens in Hong Kong. |
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By Wayne Cole. SYDNEY (Reuters) Asian shares made guarded gains on Monday as investors dared to hope for some progress in the endless Sino-U.S. trade dispute, while the outperformance of recent U.S. economic data gave the dollar a leg up on its peers.
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November 25, 2019. By Wayne Cole. SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares made guarded gains on Monday as investors dared to hope for some progress in the endless Sino-U.S. trade dispute, while the outperformance of recent U.S. economic data gave the dollar a leg up on its peers. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan bounced 0. |
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Futures pointed to a higher open for Japanese stocks, while shares in Australia rose in early trade. Investors will watch for market reaction to district council elections in Hong Kong, after pro-democracy candidates surged to a landslide victory following a record voter turnout, Reuters reported. |
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Source: Greenpeace – Seoul, South Korea – South Korea’s financing of highly polluting overseas coal plants is projected to cause a total of 47,000 to 151,000 premature deaths over 30-years in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, revealed a new Greenpeace East Asia Seoul office
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The United States detonated world’s first atomic bomb on 16 July 1945. Four years later, in August 1949, the Soviet Union detonated a nearly identical device in Central Asia – an event which stunned the U.S. military and scientific communities, which did not believe the Soviet Union had the scientific and technical know-how to do so. |
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ISLAMABAD - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will finance $511.81 million for four projects for the infrastructural development in Pakistan, mainly related to roads, energy, sanitation and mass transit.
READ MORE: China's Sichuan province opens first ever sci-fi academy in country The.... |
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A zerbaijan, the nation and former Soviet republic, is bounded by the Caspian Sea and Caucasus Mountains, which span Asia and Europe. Its capital, Baku, is famed for its medieval walled Inner City. Within the Inner City lie the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, a royal retreat dating to the 15th century,.... |
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Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino died in May this year. The Sumatran rhino once roamed across Asia, but has now almost disappeared from the wild, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist. The species is now critically endangered. Last male Sumatran.
rhino in Malaysia dies. |
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Jeremy Clarkson has finally admitted global warming exists after driving a jet boat across a lake that had shrunk to the depth of a puddle. The petrolhead turned environmentalist after being thwarted by the parched state of a river in southeast Asia while filming for his TV motoring show The Grand Tour. |
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Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Kandy to...
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Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a courtesy...
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Tourism pioneer Sam Tegal had passed away after. |
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held its 35th Summit in Thailand in early November 2019. ASEAN holds two summits annually. The second this year included meetings with Dialogue Partners including the United States. The 14th East Asian Summit (EAS), a gathering of countries formed.... |
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Celebrations erupt among Hong Kong’s pro-democracy voters.
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Salem Al-Dawsari and Bafetimbi Gomis scored in the second half on Sunday as Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal beat Urawa Reds 2-0 to win the Asian Champions League final 3-0 on aggregate. Coming into Sunday’s final with a 1-0 lead after the first leg on Nov 10 in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian giants knew they.... |
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A group of Tomaree High School students had to opportunity to learn the FootGolf basics from the world's best last week during the Asia Cup. Fifty-two years 7 and 8 sports students and three teachers, including James Welch, head of PD/H/PE at the school, turned out to Horizons Golf Resort on.... |
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(Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Asia were set for a mixed start to the trading week as investors monitored the latest on U.S.-China trade. Currencies saw muted moves in early trading. Futures edged up on equities in Japan and Australia, while Hong Kong contracts ticked lower. The pound advanced, reversing some of its decline from Friday. |
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Societe Generale’s regional heads of trade and commodities finance for Asia Pacific have left the Paris-based bank, raising concerns among Singapore-based shipping fuel traders that it may wind back financing services to the sector. France’s third-biggest listed lender said this year it would shrink.... |
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Rohail Nazir’s sparkling century helped Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 77 runs in the final of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, in Bangladesh on Saturday. After being put into bat, the openers Omair Bin Yousuf (4 off 15 balls) and Haider (26 off 23.... |
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NANCHANG, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Over 2,000 pairs of mandarin ducks have flown to Wuyuan County in east China's Jiangxi Province, Asia's largest habitat for these wild birds, to spend the winter. Mandarin Duck Lake, designated a nature reserve by the provincial government, has a water area of over 253 hectares. |
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YOUTRIP, the provider of a multi-currency travel wallet service in Asia, thinks it could be a beneficiary of Thailand’s high-flying baht. The baht’s climb spurs foreign-exchange demand by encouraging Thais to travel and shop abroad, YouTrip’s Chief Executive Officer Caecilia Chu said in an interview in Bangkok. |
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