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The luxury parka retailer reported a $60.6 million second-quarter profit, amounting to 55 cents per diluted share for the period ending Sept. 29. That's compared with a $49.9-million profit, or 45 cents per diluted share, in the same quarter the previous year. On an adjusted basis, the company said it earned $63. |
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. The writer is a freelance journalist and a correspondent for The Diplomat, based in Lahore, Pakistan. His research focuses primarily on the analysis of South Asian security and politics. His work has been featured in number of renowned media outlets including Foreign Policy, Al-Jazeera, The.... |
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Economic growth in Central Asia and the South Caucasus will remain lackluster in 2020, slowing slightly in most countries, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest regional outlook, published late last month. Overall, the IMF estimates 4.4 percent economic growth in this region next year, a far cry from the 7. |
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TOKYO -- Japan's Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings will help run Asia's first full-fledged market for digitized securities in Singapore, Nikkei has learned, serving as a bridge for Japanese companies and investors to the blockchain-based trading platform. The Tokyo-based financial services group will invest roughly 500 million yen ($4. |
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PETALING JAYA, Nov 13 — K-pop girl group Blackpink member Lalisa Manoban has officially been dubbed Asia’s most beautiful woman. TCCAsia’s Most Beautiful Faces in Asia 2019 list saw the Thai national, beating out fellow Blackpink member Jennie Kim (No. 3) and Chinese actress Angelababy (No. 4) for the top spot, The Straits Times reported. |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they were unable to confirm a highly publicized 2014 study that suggested banking culture can promote dishonesty. New lab experiments with bankers in the Middle East and Asia Pacific turned out differently, maybe indicating that the original finding doesn’t apply.... |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they were unable to confirm a highly publicized 2014 study that suggested banking culture can promote dishonesty. New lab experiments with bankers in the Middle East and Asia Pacific turned out differently, maybe indicating that the original finding doesn’t apply.... |
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Senior executives from major Asian airlines such as Japan Airlines, ANA Holdings Inc, Korean Air Lines Co Ltd, Vietnam Airlines JSC and manufacturers Airbus SE and Boeing Co had been expected to attend the event. — AFP pic. HONG KONG, Nov 13 — A group of Asian airlines cancelled an annual gathering.... |
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Turkish TV series attract audience from 146 countries ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Second only to the U.S. in TV series exports, Turkey has appealed to audience from 146 countries across the world with more than 150 TV series. Entertaining more than 700 million audience from Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and the U. |
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Hopp, a wealthy Hungarian optician, made several trips to East Asia between 1882 and 1914 and put on display the valuable artefacts he brought back mostly from China and Japan in his villa on Andrássy út. This later became Budapest's Museum of East Asian Art with a collection of 4000 items that Hopp donated to the state. |
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a global Asian-based Investor, is now a Pico investor and strategic partner. Pico provides innovative, transparent, low-latency financial markets solutions. It offers a portfolio of best-in-class products coupled with an agile and expert service delivery platform tailored for the demanding needs of financial markets clients. |
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Berkeley Lab researchers Wenyu Zhou and Da Yang, along with Shang-Ping Xie of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, used global climate models to study the so-called Hadley cell, which is the name of this tropical atmospheric circulation pattern. |
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A motorist suspected of killing a man in a hit and run incident on Monday was arrested by Sharjah Police. Police said the Asian driver, 47, ran over a 29-year-old pedestrian, also from Asia, on a street in Industrial Area 5 at 10.30pm before fleeing the scene. The injured man was taken to Al Qasimi Hospital, where he died shortly after. |
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By Anna Isaac and Joanne Chiu. -- Hang Seng drops 1.8% -- U.S. 10-year Treasury yield falls. -- U.S. stock futures slip. Global stocks moved lower Wednesday after stumbling blocks emerged in trade talks between the U.S. and China. Major indexes across Asia fell, and continuing political unrest in Hong Kong drove the Hang Seng lower by 1. |
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Tottenham defender Danny Rose intends to see out the remaining 18 months of his contract at the club and revealed he would not be offered a new deal. The 29-year-old England left-back was again made available for transfer during the summer and left off the club’s pre-season tour to Asia. |
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MANILA -- University of Santo Tomas completely squandered University of the Philippines' twice-to-beat advantage in the UAAP men's basketball stepladder playoffs and barged its way to the finals with a hard-earned 68-65 win on Wednesday night at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. |
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MANILA, Philippines – Renzo Subido just couldn't let his collegiate career end without making it to the Finals, leading the University of Santo Tomas to the UAAP Season 82 men's basketball finals with a 68-65 thriller over University of the Philippines on Wednesday, November 13 at the Mall of Asia Arena. |
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TOKYO Iranian Director Reza Jamali won the Spirit of Asia Award by the Japan Foundation Asia Center for his film "Old Men Never Die" during the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) Award Ceremony on November 5. The award is bestowed on a promising director in the TIFF Asian Future section,.... |
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BEIJING (AP) - Asian stocks sank Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened more tariff hikes on Chinese imports if talks aimed at ending a trade war fail to produce an interim agreement. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia all declined. |
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HONG KONG: Finance firms in Hong Kong urged staff on Wednesday (Nov 13) to seek safety or work from home as anti-government protests paralysed the city's business district for a third day in one of the biggest disruptions faced by the Asian finance hub. |
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MANILA, Philippines The City of Manila placed 38th in this year’s index of most innovative cities in Asia , according to data innovation agency 2ThinkNow. Last year, Manila only ranked 48th in the roster of 108 Asian countries. The nation’s capital likewise improved its ranking globally and jumped.... |
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DW News DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 13 November, 2019. China works to set up a new National Parks system along the lines of the US. In the Philippines, a Duterte critic lands a job heading an agency she herself criticised. And the Pakistani leader whose possible medical treatment abroad has ignited a political firestorm. |
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Ageing populations could be a boon to economies in the Asia and Pacific region if governments adopt technology policies that improve elderly people’s health, extend skills and working lives, and facilitate job matching, according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). |
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Two people have been diagnosed with the plague and are being treated at a hospital in China. The form of the disease, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, is reported to be worse than the outbreak that caused The Black Death - which killed up to 200million people in Europe and Asia between 1347 and 1351. |
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BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- As the aging population is becoming a common challenge in East Asian and Northeast Asian countries, experts said that the science and technology industry for senior citizens is expected to see broader collaboration among countries in the region. |
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