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Many of Asia's booming cities are failing to preserve their cultural heritage and risk losing traditional knowledge, crucial for inclusiveness and sustainability, say experts. By Rina Chandran. PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Many of Asia's booming cities are failing to.... |
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Turmeric, native to South Asia, is one of the fastest-growing dietary supplements. In 2018, products racked up an estimated $328 million in sales in the United States, a more than sevenfold increase from a decade earlier, according to a report from Nutrition Business Journal. |
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* European shares choppy in morning trading after Asia slips. * China GDP grows 6.0% in third quarter, near three-decade low. * Dollar set for worst week since mid June, Wall Street futures flat. * Sterling gives back some gains after Brexit deal rally. * Benchmark government bond yields nudge higher. |
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Staff Reporter. Karachi. EFU Life Assurance Limited, the leading life insurance provider in the country, has been conferred two awards at the ‘Dragons of Asia’ ceremony that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ‘Dragons of Asia’ is a marketing communications industry award programme that recognizes.... |
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SINGAPORE - German enterprise software giant SAP has launched a Singapore data centre for SAP Commerce Cloud to support Asia-Pacific (APAC) businesses' digital commerce strategies. Singapore was selected to host SAP's data centre due to its geopolitical stability and its adherence to data privacy,.... |
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KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Malaysia needs to boost its naval capabilities to prepare for possible conflict in the South China Sea, its foreign minister said on Thursday (Oct 17), even as South-east Asia's third-largest economy pursues non-militarisation of the disputed waterway. |
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Synopsis: This is Asian Insider, a series by The Straits Times every Friday. Together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, we give an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. Asia's El Chapo’s syndicate is believed to be funnelling tonnes of methamphetamine.... |
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IPOH (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A man who was infected with Zika, a viral disease transmitted by the Aedes mosquito , died on Friday morning (Oct 18). Health Ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said there was a possibility that the man from Manjung died due to the virus, which is believed to be locally transmitted. |
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SINGAPORE - Singapore topped Asia again while moving up a notch to fourth place overall among 129 countries ranked for how strongly they protect intellectual property (IP) rights. The Republic comes in behind other IP powerhouses such as Finland (1st), Switzerland (2nd) and New Zealand (3rd),.... |
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Hi, In today’s bulletin: Will Anwar Ibrahim ever become PM? US-China trade war knocks China’s growth rate further, the murder suspect behind Hong Kong’s crisis says he is willing to surrender, can the region’s meth trade be stopped, Japan’s future monarch and more. |
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MANILA – India’s President Ram Nath Kovind met on Friday with his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, in the Southeast Asian nation, where both countries signed agreements to strengthen bilateral trade and joint maritime operations among others. President Duterte welcomed Kovind in Manila on.... |
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Since the fall of the Indonesian dictator Suharto in 1998, civil society has flourished under the country’s burgeoning democracy. Observers even began calling Indonesia the most democratic nation in Southeast Asia. Yet at the same time, movements have been fragmented and divided into thematic silos.... |
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Singapore. NEGOTIATIONS towards a permanent United States-China trade deal will be a long drawn-out affair and Asia is not expected to benefit much from supply chain shifts, said JPMorgan chair of global research Joyce Chang. And export-dependent economies in Asia are likely to take... |
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Singapore. SINGAPORE is tops in Asia again in the strength of the protection it offers for intellectual property (IP) rights. It has been top in Asia since at least the 2015 edition of the annual International Property Rights Index (IPRI). Globally, in a field of 129 countries, the Republic has.... |
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For centuries, the ancient city of Mahendraparvata has been buried under a dense canopy in the Cambodian jungle. It was one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire, which controlled large swaths of Southeast Asia from the 9th to 15th centuries. Over the last 150 years, archaeologists have.... |
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Backlash is growing in Southeast Asia over a scene in the animated film "Abominable" that features a map of the South China Sea showing Beijing's contested claims in the flashpoint waterway. The Philippines' foreign secretary has called for the controversial segment to be excised, while Vietnam this week pulled the film altogether. |
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A customer examines a smartphone on display at the Oppo store inside the Consumer Electronics Exchange/Exhibition Centre in Shenzhen’s Futian district. Photo: Roy Issa.
Oppo steps up retail expansion in Southeast Asia to close sales gap on rival Samsung. |
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The JSE was adrift on Friday as it traded mostly flat in line with other global markets which struggled for direction. Markets in Asia did have some direction primarily on the back of weaker than expected Chinese GDP numbers which fell to a 30-year low of 6.0% QoY. This resulted in the Shanghai Composite Index closing 1. |
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What can Suncor do? Here’s a radical idea: Get into uranium. Nobody talks much about uranium anymore. The naturally radioactive metal is associated as much with disaster, because of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, as it is with clean energy. |
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– A total of 54 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships (comprising 49 actual incidents and five attempted incidents) were reported in Asia during January-September 2019. – Compared to 64 incidents during January-September 2018 (comprising 50 actual incidents and 14 attempted incidents),.... |
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The industry-leading ABS FCI Cyber Risk™ Methodology last night won another high-profile award, taking the total for the year to four and underlining its pre-eminence. ABS won the Excellence in Data and Technology Innovation Award at the Lloyd’s List Asia Pacific Awards. |
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The Thome Group is delighted to announce that it has won the award for Excellence in Maritime Services/ Ship Management at the Lloyd’s List Asia Pacific Awards ceremony at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. Reviewed by an independent panel of judges, the award recognised that the Thome Group had.... |
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The startup of the Power of Siberia Russia-China natural gas pipeline in December is expected to weigh on the mid-term LNG demand growth potential of China, the world’s second largest importer of the fuel, adding another bearish factor to an already oversupplied Asian market. |
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U.S. crude exports to Asia, which have slumped due to record freight costs, stirred on Thursday as rates slid and the premium in Asia for Russia’s ESPO Blend oil sent buyers back to U.S. grades, according to market sources. Oil shipping costs for United States Gulf Coast to Asia cooled this week.... |
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities denied entry on Thursday to an official of the Committee to Protect Journalists and forced him to leave the country, the journalist watchdog group said in a statement. Steven Butler, the Asia program director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, was.... |
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