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Source: Asia Development Bank Publication | August 2019 This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Nepal, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments.
It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the.... |
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Source: Asia Development Bank. From left to right: ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development Mr. Bambang Susantono; Google’s Vice President of Public Policy for Asia and the Pacific Ambassador Ted Osius; Assistant Dean and Chief Technology Officer of Stanford University Mr. |
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Source: Asia Development Bank Publication | August 2019 This study explores the key features and characteristics of business cycles in the Philippines, including the volatility of key macroeconomic variables.
It assesses the duration, amplitude, and slope of business cycles for the period 2003–2017.... |
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Mason Greenwood is set to be rewarded for his hugely promising pre-season and start to the Premier League campaign by being offered a new contract worth £25,000-a-week by The 17-year-old forward impressed during United's tour of Asia this summer, scoring in the 4-0 win over Leeds and 1-0 victory.... |
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HEALTH advocates warned against a proposed ordinance in or e-cigarette use, and rejected claims that the tobacco alternatives are safer. HealthJustice Philippines and the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) said the draft ordinance appears to accept the vaping industry’s claims that its.... |
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ASIA UNITED Bank Corp. (AUB) is targeting to schedule the maiden issue out of its P30-billion bond program next quarter, which will also mark its debut in the onshore bond market. AUB Executive Vice President Antonio V. Agcaoili, Jr. told BusinessWorld that AUB’s first issuance out of its bond program will be a fixed-rate note. |
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TOKYO — The bitter trade war between China and the United States kept Asian factory activity mostly in decline in August, business surveys showed, strengthening the case for policy makers to unleash fresh stimulus to fend off recession risks. In a surprise development, China’s factory activity.... |
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SINGAPORE - The U.S.-China trade war and the broadening application of tariffs by both countries on the other, is having a significant impact on economies around Asia. Manufacturing sentiment across the region remained weak during August with purchasing manager indexes in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan continuing in negative territory. |
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Male (Maldives), September 2 (ANI): In another blow to Pakistan, the Male declaration adopted by South Asian Speaker's summit on Monday rejected all claims made by Islamabad on Kashmir. "The South Asian Speakers' Summit, while adopting Male Declaration, overlooked all assertions made by Pakistani parliamentary delegation," sources said. |
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September 2, 2019, 9:26 pm While social conducts based exclusively on age-old religious and communal traditions were important, some such practices could at times negatively affect their education and social wellbeing, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said, yesterday, addressing the South Asian Parliamentarian Platform for Children meeting in Colombo. |
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Ahmad Khan Monday warned that if the civilised world continued to ignore Indian aggression and hegemonic designs in South Asia, the resulting war would not confine to the region but badly affect lives of over 2.5 billion people of the adjoining areas. |
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Ahmad Khan Monday warned that if the civilised world continued to ignore Indian aggression and hegemonic designs in South Asia, the resulting war would not confine to the region but badly affect lives of over 2.5 billion people of the adjoining areas. |
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BEIJING: European stock markets opened higher while Asia was mixed Monday after Washington and Beijing escalated their war over trade and technology with new tariff hikes. Benchmarks in London, Paris and Shanghai advanced. Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. |
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Big-hitting Damien Jordan returns in pursuit of a second Philippine Golf Tour Asia (PGTA) championship, seeking to become only the second player to score back-to-back victories in the ninth Aboitiz Invitational firing off tomorrow at Wack Wack’s East Course in Mandaluyong City. |
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Phoenix Petroleum Philippines will decrease its prices on gasoline and diesel by P0.10 per liter effective 6 AM today. Sun Life named best insurance brand for Filipinos. For the sixth year in a row, Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc. was the only life insurance company to land in Campaign Asia’s survey of the Top 100 Brands in the Philippines. |
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The Aug. 8 explosion at a remote missile test site in Nyonoksa in Northern Russia has been covered widely in the media. The test involved something powered by radioactive isotopes (possibly a nuclear power generator of some kind). The nearby cities of Based on the isotopes released in the incident,.... |
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ALMOST one in three convicted pedophiles are not spending a day in a jail, prompting the Federal Government to revive new laws that will force all child sex offenders to be imprisoned. Attorney-General Christian Porter will today announce the Government will reintroduce draft laws imposing mandatory.... |
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Male: Jammu and Kashmir is an "internal matter" of India, the Male Declaration adopted by the leaders at the South Asian Speakers' Summit in the Maldives on Monday said "unanimously" and overlooked all assertions made by Pakistan on the issue. The declaration was adopted a day after India thwarted.... |
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More Asian gasoil is expected to head to Europe as buyers take advantage of the biggest seasonal price gap between the two regions in at least seven years to build up stocks ahead of a switch to cleaner marine fuels, traders and ship brokers said. Asian supplies are also expected to swell further in.... |
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Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to raise prices for light crude grades it sells to Asia in October on stronger Middle East benchmarks and gasoil margins, several trade sources said on Monday.
The official selling price (OSP) for Arab Light crude in October is expected to rise by 40-50.... |
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Muhammad Nadeem Bhatti. DONALD Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated 16 other candidates in the primaries. Commentators described his political positions as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. He was elected in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, although he lost the popular vote. |
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Male (Maldives), September 2 (ANI): In another blow to Pakistan, the Male declaration adopted by South Asian Speaker's summit on Monday rejected all claims made by Islamabad on Kashmir. "The South Asian Speakers' Summit, while adopting Male Declaration, overlooked all assertions made by Pakistani parliamentary delegation," sources said. |
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DW News Asia with Biresh Banerjee, 2 September 2019.
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DW News Africa with Eddy Micah, 2 September 2019.
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MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. Visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Mongolia is aimed to activate Russian foreign policy in Asia, Program Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club Timofey Bordachev told TASS on Monday. "I think that this visit has been relevant for a long time. |
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