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Racial Equality in the Time of Coronavirus. How has Australia’s response to the pandemic affected diverse communities? From the racial targeting of Asian Australians to the hard lockdown imposed on residents in Melbourne’s public housing towers, the pandemic has raised questions about the place of diverse communities in Australian society. |
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Acclime partners with Take5 People to provide regional HR and payroll services.
HONG KONG, Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Acclime, the premier corporate services provider in Asia , is pleased to announce its partnership with Take5 People, a regional human resource management system (HRMS) solutions provider. |
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Lazada and Nike will help drive digital expansion and widen accessibility of Nike product innovation and design in the region
SINGAPORE Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nike and Lazada, Southeast Asia's leading eCommerce platform, are teaming up to serve more consumers across the region with direct.... |
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Product quality and workers' health are companies' priority. SHANGHAI Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Brazil currently has over 365 facilities approved to export poultry meat, pork and beef; throughout 2020 it has constructed a production model that further strengthens its position as a world leader in animal protein exports. |
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Stephen Givens is a corporate lawyer based in Tokyo. There is broad consensus -- even among Donald Trump's haters -- that a Biden administration will not meaningfully change the course of the two policy fronts that most directly affect Japan and the rest of Asia: trade and defense. |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.4% to 23,303.42 in morning trading, while South Korea's Kospi gained nearly 0.9% to 2,287.17. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.4% to 5,952.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 0.7% to 24,277.75, while the Shanghai Composite inched down less than 0.1% to 3,221.78. |
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Last month, both Latin America and Asia reported more than 10 million total cases in their regions. There are over 9 million cases in the United States alone, and the epidemic is spreading rapidly. While it took almost nine months in Europe to reach the first 5 million cases of Covid-19, the next 5.... |
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The disputed region is riven by violence more than a year after New Delhi withdrew its semi-autonomy.
Heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents rages on despite efforts to find peace.
Dozens more are injured in the explosion at a religious seminary in Peshawar. |
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The Australian government is set to spend half a billion dollars on an “advance purchase” of COVID-19 vaccines to help important neighbors in Southeast Asia and the Pacific recover from the pandemic. On October 31, Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced that Australia plans to spend an additional.... |
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(marketscreener.com) India's factory activity expanded at its fastest pace in over a decade in October as demand and output continued to recover strongly from coronavirus-related disruptions, but firms cut more jobs, a private survey showed. Asia's third-largest economy is healing after shrinking a record 23. |
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NEW YORK: As the race to the White House enters its final lap, over 1,100 prominent members of the Asian-American community, including Indian-American elected officials, artists, business and community leaders have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. |
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Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) strategy to put into spotlight the different qualities of each MICE city has resulted in the bureau winning bid for Phuket to host TBEX Asia 2021 when some 600 travel bloggers, content creators and social media influencers around the globe will gather.... |
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BANGKOK Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) strategy to put into spotlight the different qualities of each MICE city has resulted in the bureau winning bid for Phuket to host TBEX Asia 2021 when some 600 travel bloggers, content creators and social media.... |
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BANGKOK Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) strategy to put into spotlight the different qualities of each MICE city has resulted in the bureau winning bid for Phuket to host TBEX Asia 2021 when some 600 travel bloggers, content creators and social media.... |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Monday buoyed by further signs of recovery in China's manufacturing sector. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1.4% to 23,303.42 in morning trading, while South Korea's Kospi gained nearly 0.9% to 2,287.17. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.4% to 5,952.40. |
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mixed on Monday following the weak cues from Wall Street Friday and as data showed China's manufacturing activity continued to expand at a faster rate in October. Investors remained cautious amid worries about the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the U. |
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New COVID-19 cases in Europe have doubled in five weeks, pushing the region to hit the bleak milestone of ten million total infections on Sunday, according to a Reuters count. Last month, both Latin America and Asia reported a total of more than ten million cases in their regions. |
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SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical products that address critical unmet medical needs for patients in Greater China and other parts of Asia, today.... |
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“Texas might be turning purple,” said Devesh Kapur, the director of Asia programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “You see in that area there are a lot of Asian Americans, not just Indian Americans but other Asian Americans. That’s the group that will make or break it. |
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Newly retired chief executive of HDFC Bank to advise portfolio companies in Asia. Carlyle Group has appointed Aditya Puri, one of India’s top bank executives, as a senior adviser in Asia as the.... |
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Boosting South Asia relations. Elections loom in Myanmar and the United States. Sifting through Aussie ashes. South Korea’s COVID churches. Banning plastics. |
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From Steffen Gosenheimer. TOKYO / SHANGHAI (Dow Jones) – The Chinese stock market reported very firmly on Friday from the eight-day so-called Golden Week around the national holiday. The Caixin purchasing managers’ index for the service sector, which rose in September, provided a boost. |
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(KPL) ASEAN citizen, especially those from new member states, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) and the Kingdom of Cambodia, are shocked learning that a respected defender of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has decided not to defend it anymore by sending a.... |
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New York. A slowing pace of virus infections and optimism over China’s economic recovery is burnishing the appeal of Asian stocks for some money managers as volatility in global markets jumps ahead of next week’s US vote, Bloomberg has reported. GAM Investment Management, Robeco Hong Kong and Nordea.... |
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A Super typhoon Goni blew into the eastern Philippines with disastrous force Sunday, killing at least 22 and displacing over 775,513 people. Typhoon Goni triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed hundreds of houses before weakening as it blew away from the country, officials said. |
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