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Native to Southeast Asia, the butterfly pea plant (Clitoria ternatea) has edible leaves that are often dried or ground into a powder. It’s sometimes labeled blue matcha. The woody and earthy flavor brews a perfect tisane, holds its own in baking, and so much more. |
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SAN FRANCISCO , Sept. 30 , 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Even as most businesses are reeling under the effect of the pandemic, Filipino rum maker Tanduay's growth continues on an upwards trajectory. Now headed by Lucio Tan III , the third-generation scion to one of the Philippines' biggest conglomerates,.... |
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GUANGZHOU, China Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On 15 September 2020 , the 75th session of the UN General Assembly was opened. World leaders called for efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a shared vision to end poverty, rescue the planet and build a peaceful world. |
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TAIPEI Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson Taiwan Technology and Trading ("Epson Taiwan") has today begun selling smart glasses optical engine modules worldwide for the first time, offering a world-class AR ecosystem to global consumers and providing a more complete way of working remotely during COVID-19. |
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On the surface, there are few enough commonalities between the Obama and Trump administrations. Just below the surface, though, they share at least one major strategic imperative: addressing the increasing challenge that China poses to American foreign and security policy goals, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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Open only for female writers from Birmingham (UK), Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Bangladeshi writer and editor Khademul Islam will be the judge for the Asia region for the 10th annual...
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction.
A tribute to Manabendra Bandyopadhyay. |
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Hanoi (VNA) , Managing Director of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific , said the company is willing to share its experience and security solutions to help protect Vietnam from Kaspersky and its researchers have more than 20 years of experience and a range of security solutions it stands ready to share with Vietnam, he affirmed. |
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Jakarta (VNA) EU Ambassador to ASEAN Igor Driesmans said the EU has launched a new social media campaign entitled “Your Health Is Priceless” which aims to raise awareness of the harms that counterfeit pharmaceutical and healthcare products can cause falsified medicines in Southeast Asia. |
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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Billions of banking stocks are about to flood the market with banks planning to pay stock dividend s and issue new shares to raise their The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) has approved the additional listing of more than 498.8 million shares in Asia Commercial bank (ACB), which will be.... |
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Human footfall to Taipei Zoo may have dropped this year but officials have been kept on their toes with an animal baby boom that has just kept coming. Formosan serows, Eurasian otters, jackass penguins, koalas, marmosets and black-capped squirrel monkeys have all added to their ranks since the beginning of 2020. |
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Six rural households in Croatia can finally replace candles with light bulbs, keep food in a refrigerator, watch TV and listen to the radio, after spending ten or more years without power. They get electricity from solar panels on their roofs. The Ray of Sun – Light of Hope campaign, organized and.... |
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Yet interest ran high for its potential impact on what may be the most consequential U.S. election in years, now just over a month away. Observers from Asia and Australia to Europe and Africa looked for possible impact on financial markets and currencies, although the reaction was muted overall. |
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Hong Kong: Investors braced for stormy sessions ahead as sparks flew at the US Presidential Debate on Tuesday night (early Wednesday in Asia) with both candidates indulging in name calling and US President Donald Trump refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election. |
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He has also been in South Korea where he visited the DMZ on the border with North Korea and met Foreign Minister Kang in Seoul. £6.3million of new funding to tackle the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 across South East Asia has been announced today by the UK Foreign Secretary, who is in the region visiting South Korea and Vietnam. |
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Vientiane (AsiaNews) In Laos Christians can practise their faith more or less freely in the capital Vientiane and in the larger cities, not so in rural areas where they face discrimination and persecution from other Laotians, often with the support of local authorities. |
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SHANGHAI Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 24, 2020 , 111, Inc. ("111" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YI), a leading digital healthcare platform dedicating to digitally connecting patients with drugs and healthcare services in China , hosted its 3rd annual China Online Healthcare Summit and.... |
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CHONGQING, China Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On 24 September, Chongqing Jiangxiaobai Liquor Co. Ltd. raised series C financing. The investment was led by China Renaissance New Economies Fund, Baillie Gifford, Loyal Valley Capital, followed by CMB International Capital, Kunyan Investment and Wens Investment. |
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WENCHANG, China Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Wenchang Convergence Media Center, on September 30 , the live streaming activity - "Breakfast in Thousands of Cities, A Bite of Wenchang" under the theme of "Fall in Love with a City" was held in Wenchang, a famous hometown of overseas.... |
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HONG KONG Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Quality of product or service' is now identified by most consumers in mainland China (66%) and Hong Kong (67%) as the top attribute when making a purchase, surpassing 'value for money' which was the most important purchase driver at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a KPMG global survey. |
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TEL AVIV, Israel Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading AI chipmaker Hailo announced today the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-performance AI acceleration modules for empowering edge devices. Integrating the Hailo-8™ processor, the modules can be plugged into a variety of edge devices,.... |
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WINNIPEG: The pandemic's crushing effect on international travel has grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root widely used in Asia to treat everything from the common cold to impotency, at a time when health is top of consumers' minds. Canada is the world's second-largest ginseng exporter after.... |
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SINGAPORE Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its streak of successful contributions and positive feedback in developing cloud-based, digital and intelligent services for global events and conferences, Tencent Cloud today announced its collaboration with Hylink, China's leading digital agency.... |
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HONG KONG: Asia-Pacific mergers and acquisitions are forecast by bankers to remain buoyant after surging 63per cent in the third quarter, driven by technology companies and conglomerates making strategic moves as they emerge from the pandemic. Japanese companies are at the forefront of the M&A boom,.... |
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Property group Hammerson , which owns the Dundrum Town Centre, has appointed Rita-Rose Gagné as its new chief executive. Ms Gagné joins the company from real estate company Ivanhoe Cambridge where she served as president of growth markets and had responsibility for $7.6 billion (€6.5 billion) of assets across Asia Pacific and Latin America. |
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The World Bank’s October 2020 Economic Update for EAP elaborated that the region as a whole is expected to grow by only 0.9% in 2020, the lowest rate since 1967. While China is forecast to grow by 2.0% in 2020 – boosted by government spending, strong exports, and a low rate of new Covid-19.... |
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