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SHANGHAI Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective October 19, 2020 , or as soon as contracts allow, DuPont Transportation & Industrial will increase prices for DuPont™ Zytel® PA66 products in Asia by the equivalent of US$210 per metric ton for unreinforced grades and US$150 per metric ton for reinforced grades. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher in muted trading Monday, as worries about the pandemic kept optimism in check despite a rally that closed out last week on Wall Street. Investors growing wary over upcoming earnings reports have been cashing in recent gains, helping pull Japanese shares lower. |
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Today, ball games are one of the most popular leisure activities in the world, an important form of mass entertainment and big business. But who invented balls, where and when? The oldest balls that are currently known about were made in Egypt about 4,500 years ago using linen. |
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People walk past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Asian shares are mostly higher in muted trading on Monday, as worries about the pandemic keep optimism in check, despite the rally that closed out last week on Wall Street. |
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TOKYO – Asian shares were mostly higher in muted trading Monday, as worries about the pandemic kept optimism in check despite a rally that closed out last week on Wall Street. Investors growing wary over upcoming earnings reports have been cashing in recent gains, helping pull Japanese shares lower. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0. |
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Investors growing wary over upcoming earnings reports have been cashing in recent gains, helping pull Japanese shares lower. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.3% to 23,543.95. Big exporters logged some of the largest losses, with Toyota Motor Corp. falling 0.6% and Honda Motor Co. shedding 1. |
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COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's ultranationalist government looks set to receive a financial lifeline from China rather than an International Monetary Fund bailout to avoid defaulting on foreign debts, affirming the Asian giant as lender of the last resort to the strategically located South Asian island nation. |
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October 12, 2020. By Tom Westbrook. SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese stocks led Asian markets higher on Monday as investors bet on a steady recovery for the world’s no. 2 economy, though caution about the fate of U.S. stimulus kept the dollar firm and a central bank policy tweak unwound some of the yuan’s gains. |
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By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese stocks led Asian markets higher on Monday as investors bet on a steady recovery for the world’s no. 2 economy, though caution about the fate of U.S. stimulus kept the dollar firm and a central bank policy tweak unwound some of the yuan’s gains. |
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The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project has been planned to bring natural gas from energy-surplus Central Asia to energy-scarce South Asia. According to the TAPI project, Turkmenistan would export its natural gas from Galkynysh, the second largest gas field in the.... |
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The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project has been planned to bring natural gas from energy-surplus Central Asia to energy-scarce South Asia. According to the TAPI project, Turkmenistan would export its natural gas from Galkynysh, the second largest gas field in the.... |
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Hong Kong has long been known as Asia's premier financial hub, functioning as China's window to the wider world while enjoying a kind of freedom unheard of on the mainland. But the protests and a new security law imposed by Beijing are threatening the city's identity. |
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From Amit Ghosh, Head of Asia Pacific, R3, Singapore. I agree with Kathrin Hille (“The great uncoupling: one supply chain for China, one for everywhere else”, the Big.... |
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My love for film really ignited in 1993, when my 11 year old self was brainwashed by the gigantic ad campaign for Jurassic Park. Since then, this has also been my favorite film. Contrary to that, my heart is attached to Asian cinema and the whole culture. |
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Scientists find three 6.4 million years old monkey fossils in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China. This indicates monkeys existed in Asia at the same time as apes, and are probably the ancestors of some of the modern monkeys in the area. |
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By Joseph Peter Calleja. A Catholic bishop has expressed “dismay” after a poll revealed that a whopping nine out of 10 Filipinos approve of President Rodrigo Duterte’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Retired Sorsogon Bishop Arturo M. Bastes called Duterte’s high rating perceivably inconsistent.... |
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Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature Physics by an international collaboration between 33 astronomers and clock experts at the National Institute of.... |
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SINGAPORE: There is a concept among the business community known as the “China Plus One (+1)” strategy where China remains the main supply source or consumer market for a company but a business diversifies certain operations to other countries. Companies with a stake in the lucrative Chinese market.... |
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Chinese FA (CFA) president Chen Xuyuan has said the country’s football team remains well behind the game’s leading nations, but is confident head coach Li Tie is instilling the necessary traits in his squad to close the gap on Asia’s best. Chen, who took the helm of the CFA last year, told state.... |
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Chinese FA (CFA) president Chen Xuyuan has said the country’s football team remains well behind the game’s leading nations, but is confident head coach Li Tie is instilling the necessary traits in his squad to close the gap on Asia’s best. Chen, who took the helm of the CFA last year, told state.... |
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Head of the Central Asia, Caucasus and Crimea Sector of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage Museum Pavel Lurie added in a meeting with Director General of the National Museum of Iran Jebrael Nokandeh that Hermitage Museum is willing to hold an exhibition on the culture of Iran and Central Asia in Tehran. |
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China. On Sept. 11, 2020, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) published the Anti-Monopoly Compliance Guidelines for Business Operators (the Guidelines). The Guidelines are intended to provide a set of best practices that businesses may adopt in establishing antitrust compliance.... |
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for a new forum to defuse tensions in the West Asia after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart where he reiterated Beijing’s support for Tehran. Wang and Javid Zarif also reaffirmed their commitment to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers,.... |
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It is apt that on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child observed on October 11, we focused on the practice of child marriage, which has such long lasting impacts on the life of a girl child. Bangladesh, unfortunately, still remains a country with the highest child marriage rate in South Asia, according to a 2018 study by Unicef. |
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William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." As an American living abroad in the Trump era, I must confess to an unhealthy fascination with what Ferdinand Marcos did to the Philippines decades ago. The Trump reality show connected the dots from the outset. |
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