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{snip} A high profile lawsuit by East Asian (American) students claimed that Harvard, like other elite universities, discriminates against East Asian applicants in its admissions process. Although Asians are over-represented at these institutions (compared to their relative population in the U.S. |
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DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 17 September 2019.
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Ocean Dance Festival is going to organise their bi-annual event from November 22 - 25, 2019, in Cox’s Bazaar. The four-day show by the beach, will comprise of different dance forms. World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific (WDA-AP’s Bangladesh chapter), will be holding their annual general meeting and network meetings at the event. |
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"We are making a bet on hip hop but I think it's a pretty safe one," said Adam Granite, who oversees UMG's market development in Asia. "Hip hop is often about struggle and the streets and southeast Asia has some challenging components. You have poverty in places ... |
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European shares opened lower, with energy stocks giving up gains as crude prices eased. The pan-European STOXX 600 index dropped 0.2%. MSCI's All-Country World Index, which tracks shares across 47 countries, was down 0.1% on the day. In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0. |
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Saudi Arabia's top oil consumers in Asia consume more than 70 percent of total crude exports from the kingdom [File: Clemens Bilan/EPA]
Saudi Aramco has informed at least six refiners in Asia that it will supply full allocated volumes of crude oil in October despite attacks on its oil facilities.... |
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Indonesia is battling forest fires causing toxic haze across southeast Asia with aircraft, artificial rain and even prayer. — Antara Foto/Akbar Nugroho Gumay pic via Reuters. PEKANBARU, Sept 17 — Indonesia is battling forest fires causing toxic haze across.... |
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(From left) Alliance IFA (M) Sdn Bhd's Prabhat Kumar, SSM Acting CEO Nor Azimah Abd Aziz and Jonathan Tay from ACPMiT Asia (right), during the Anti-Corruption and Integrity 2019 forum in Kuala Lumpur September 17, 2019. — Picture by Hari Anggara. KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — Malaysia could have been far.... |
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The report offers a holistic overview of the Vecuronium Bromide market with the help of application segments and geographical regions(United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Central & South America, ROW) that govern the market currently. |
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The report offers a holistic overview of the Nanometer Silver market with the help of application segments and geographical regions(North America, Europe, China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, Other regions (Central & South America, Middle East & Africa, ROW)) that govern the market currently. |
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The logo of Universal Music Group (UMG) is seen at a building in Zurich, Switzerland July 25, 2016. — Reuters pic. SINGAPORE, Sept 17 — Korea brought the world K-Pop. India, the music of Bollywood. Could the chaotic, fast-growing region of Southeast Asia be a new hotbed for hip hop?
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PEKANBARU, INDONESIA: Indonesia is battling forest fires causing toxic haze across southeast Asia with aircraft, artificial rain and even prayer, President Joko Widodo said during a visit to a hard-hit area Tuesday. Forest fires are raging on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, sending a choking fug.... |
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PETALING JAYA: Komarkcorp Bhd is the latest addition to Fintec Global Bhd’s investment portfolio following the purchase of a 19.82% stake in Komarkcorp for RM16.4 million. Fintec said in a filing with the stock exchange that its wholly owned subsidiary Asiabio Capital Sdn Bhd had on Sept 17 entered.... |
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. |
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The creator of the Czech Republic’s most famous liquor, Josef Vitus Becher, was born exactly 250 years ago in Karlovy Vary. It was he who invented the drink, which has come to be known as “Becherovka”, by adjusting a recipe he received from an English physician called Christian Frobrig. |
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Anheuser-Busch InBev NV will kick off a second attempt to spin off its Asian business in Hong Kong with the launch on Wednesday of an IPO worth up to $6.6 billion that could be the world’s second largest this year. The brewing giant, which in July tried to raise up to $9. |
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The Kingdom of Bahrain with host the third edition of the West Asia Paralympic Games 2021. The Executive Bureau of West Asia Paralympics Federation held a meeting in Amman, Jordan, and approved the organization of the championship in the Kingdom of Bahrain. |
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Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy today (9/16) held a launch ceremony with local government authorities and wind industry partners in Taiwan for what will be the company's first offshore nacelle assembly facility outside of Europe. Construction is due to begin in 2020 at the site located in the port of Taichung. |
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia’s gasoline margin rose nearly 10% to $9.56 a barrel on Tuesday, the highest since 2018, while the naphtha crack surged about 95% to its highest since March at $64.70 a tonne following the attacks on Saudi oil facilities. The weekend attack on oil processing plants at.... |
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Vivendi’s Universal Music Group (UMG) is hoping so. The unveiling of its Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore on Tuesday came with a performance from six newly-signed rappers - whose bleached hair, gold jewellery and baggy clothing jarred somewhat with the business hotel backdrop. |
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Giudice presso il Consiglio di Stato, Egitto.
Vescovo cattolico, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per il Dialogo Interreligioso, Santa Sede.
Indu, membro del "Forum for a New South Asia”, India.
Pastore, Consiglio Ecumenico delle Chiese, Norvegia. |
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manila chief Takehiko Nakao announced his resignation to “give way to someone with fresh ideas,” according to the Manila-based multilateral lender on Tuesday. Nakao said that he will step down from his post on 16 January 2020, saying that he will resign with a deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude. |
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Korea brought the world K-Pop. India, the music of Bollywood. Could the chaotic, fast-growing region of Southeast Asia be a new hotbed for hip hop? Vivendi's Universal Music Group (UMG) is hoping so. The unveiling of its Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore on Tuesday came.... |
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Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil processing plant caused crude prices to soar, prompting.... |
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HONG KONG (AP) — AB InBev, the world's largest brewer that produces Budweiser and Corona, on Tuesday revived plans to list its Asian business in Hong Kong but halved the size of its initial public offering to $4.8 billion. The move comes two months after it temporarily shelved plans to raise $9. |
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