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Hello, all, The JCEA (Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia https://jceasia.org/ ) is looking for someone to review the following book for our summer 2021 issue. Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. and Yasuhara Miho (2020). Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku. Interested potential reviewers should contact L. |
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TAIPEI/WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - A two-star Navy admiral overseeing US military intelligence in the Asia-Pacific region has made an unannounced visit to Taiwan, two sources told Reuters on Sunday (Nov 22), in a high-level trip that could vex China. The sources, who include a Taiwanese official familiar.... |
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Ahmed Khellil Abbassi, Director of Team Services Depart ment in the Local Organizing Committee of 2020 AFC Champions League’s East Zone tournament, said the choice of the State of Qatar to organise competitions resulted from the great confidence the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has in its organisational abilities. |
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Guangzhou Evergrande and Suwon Samsung Bluewings scrapped their way to a goalless draw in their Asian Champions League clash between two former champions here yesterday. Guangzhou, coached by Italian defending great Fabio Cannavaro, had been brimming with confidence ahead of their first match in the.... |
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Worrisome spikes in Asia. The coronavirus pandemic is taking a bad turn in parts of Asia. Cases are climbing quickly in Japan and South Korea , which had long managed to avoid the worst. And because Hong Kong is grappling with a spike, a plan for a travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore has been put on hold. |
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WHO says Europe faces third wave early in 2021 if nations repeat their failures to prepare
People queue to collect from a bookshop in Paris. A strict lockdown has been in place in France since 30 October. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters.
France is preparing to ease its Covid-19 quarantine.... |
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The ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, a regional organization of human rights defenders and LGBTQ+ advocates in Southeast Asia, is calling for short stories that “reclaim indigenous magic and LGBTQIA+ identity for an aspirational anthology” to be published in 2021. The fiction anthology aims to speculate at a.... |
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By Kamran Chaudhry. Millions of people took to the roads for the final journey of a hardline Pakistani cleric in what was described as the biggest funeral procession in the history of Lahore. Traffic choked all entry points to the city and roads leading to the mosque of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.... |
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Blackstone Group Inc is seeking to raise at least US$5 billion for its second private equity fund focused on Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, people familiar with the matter.
FILE PHOTO: The ticker and trading information for Blackstone Group is displayed at the post where it is traded on.... |
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Only 50% of households in Myanmar, one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, are connected to the public grid. Five years ago, the government set a goal of electrifying 100% of the country by 2030. With that in mind, in June, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship , together with Smart Power.... |
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REFILE-Blackstone seeks $5 bln for second Asia buyout fund - Bloomberg News.
(Adds missing word in first paragraph) Nov 22 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc is seeking to raise at least $5 billion for its second private equity fund focused on Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. |
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"People are fully engaged, they take on behaviours that make it difficult for the virus," he said. "They keep their distance, wear masks, isolate when they're sick, wash hands and surfaces. They protect the most endangered groups." Also, Asia did not relax restrictions prematurely, he said. |
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Only 50% of households in Myanmar, one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, are connected to the public grid. Five years ago, the government set a goal of electrifying 100% of the country by 2030. With that in mind, in June, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship , together with Smart Power.... |
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Blackstone Group Inc is seeking to raise at least $5 billion for its second private equity fund focused on Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. With this new vehicle, Blackstone plans to more than double the size of its first Asia buyout fund, Bloomberg.... |
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed on November 15 at a virtual meeting of member-states, on the margins of the annual East Asia Summit, eight years after the bloc was launched in Phnom Penh. The timing is neither surprising nor linked to any geopolitical development it.... |
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Amid a definitive shift towards disaffection for globalisation in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic-induced economic crisis, 15 East Asian economies agreed to establish the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest ever free trade agreement (FTA). |
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Only 50% of households in Myanmar, one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, are connected to the public grid. Five years ago, the government set a goal |
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(Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc is seeking to raise at least $5 billion for its second private equity fund focused on Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. With this new vehicle, Blackstone plans to more than double the size of its first Asia buyout fund, Bloomberg reported (https://www. |
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There’s absolutely no doubt that wildlife trafficking plays an incredibly important role in the creation of new zoonotic diseases. © Provided by The Independent. We destroy habitats, forcing some animals into closer contact with humans. We hunt them, capture them, and traffic them – or their body.... |
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November 22, 2020. (Reuters) – Blackstone Group Inc is seeking to raise at least $5 billion for its second private equity fund focused on Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. With this new vehicle, Blackstone plans to more than double the size of its first.... |
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Although the 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' meeting this year was held virtually, the messages delivered hit home with the desired import. Likewise, although the APEC event sounds exclusive to the Asia-Pacific region, the CEO Dialogues is a conversation that actually encompasses the whole world. |
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KUNMING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- A total of 3.9 million stems of flowers were transacted Sunday via the electronic auction services of the Kunming Dounan Flower Market, Asia's largest fresh cut flower trading market, up 11.1 percent from Saturday. The data were provided by the Kunming International.... |
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The North-South Corridor is one of the strategic routes in the east which Iran, India, and Russia signed an agreement for it in 2000 to make use of it. The North-South Corridor is the most notable trade link between Asia and Europe, which is up to 40 percent shorter and costs up to 30 percent.... |
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Taipei – A U.S. official has arrived in Taiwan, the island’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday, adding that it could not provide details as the trip has not been made public, though it did deny a media report that the CIA chief was in town. China, which claims democratically run Taiwan as its own territory, reacted with fury when the U. |
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Boris Johnson has been urged to grant asylum to a Pakistani Christian girl who was forced to marry a Muslim man accused of abducting and raping her at gunpoint. The family of the 14-year-old girl claims that she was kidnapped by Mohamad Nakash last year, who used blackmail and threats of violence to.... |
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