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A regional piracy-monitoring agency in Singapore said maritime attacks in Asia in the first nine months of the year dropped 11 percent compared to 2007 and 32 percent from 2006.
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A regional piracy-monitoring agency in Singapore said maritime attacks in Asia in the first nine months of the year dropped 11 percent compared to 2007 and 32 percent from 2006.
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The Nigeria Premier Maritime Academy, MAN, Oron, in Akwa Ibom State, will be upgraded to a degree awarding institution soon.
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An economically crippled United States is good for almost no one.
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Voting in the Maldives’ first multiparty presidential election was extended Wednesday after problems arose.
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India’s largest outsourcing firm, Tata Consultancy Services, is buying Citigroup’s back-office operations in India for $505 million in cash, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Japanese shares rebounded Thursday at midday, a day after world stocks took a historical plunge despite several central banks' decision to cut interest rates.
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Japanese shares rebounded Thursday at midday, a day after world stocks took a historical plunge despite several central banks' decision to cut interest rates.The Bank of Japan pumped another 20 billion dollars to guarantee vital cash flaw.
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Oct 9 - U.S. and Europe rate cuts supported Asian shares, as investors hoped for more measures to address the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
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Viewpoint: TIME Asia's Editor Zoher Abdoolcarim asks if Barack Obama were running for office in Asia, would he be where he is now?
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In the ongoing regional meltdown, Japan's stock market suffers its steepest daily drop since 1987, and Indonesia closes its exchange after shares fall by more than 10%
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Thursday, central banks of Eastern Asia reduced their key interest rates after major central banks slashed their rates in a coordinated move on Wednesday. The Bank of Korea and the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) reduced interest rate by 25 basis points, while the Hong Kong Monetary Authority or HKMA slashed the base rate by 50 basis points.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks clung to small gains while the yen slipped on Thursday after central banks from China to Europe and the United States cut interest rates to support the global economy, though investors were tense with credit markets still dysfunctional.
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Staging Premier League matches in Asia could boost the continent's standard of football, says its top administrator.
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“Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.” – Herbert Stein, former chairman of the US presidential Council of Economic Advisers What confronts the world can be seen as the latest in a succession of financial crises that have struck periodically over the last 30 years. The current financial turmoil in the US and Europe affects economies [...]
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Central banks in Asia joined their western counterparts and cut interest rates in an attempt to ward off the global financial turmoil threatening to stall the region's decade-long economic boom
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For the first time India will be participating in the Asia-Europe Meeting summit in Beijing later in October.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks plunged on Friday, with Japan's Nikkei down more than 10 percent, while the yen and U.S. Treasury debt prices rose, as panic set in after global efforts so far failed to unlock credit markets.
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DJ Muggs is best known as the man behind the hefty, persuasive beats of Cypress Hill and House of Pain, but this latest album finds him in alliance with rapper Planet Asia. Compared with the springy, hedonistic beats he conjured up for the mighty Black Sunday, however, this is dark, forbidding territory, mapped out initially by the slow, portentous beat and trumpet-fanfare loop of "Sleeper Cell", with a grim organ pad providing a sombre undertow to Asia's monotone depiction of the modern urban battlefield. Similarly dystopian is the title track, where the static, looping groove and bleak, urgent verbiage recalls classic Wu-Tang Clan – an influence confirmed elsewhere by Killah Priest and GZA guest spots, and the swordplay motif of "Deadly Blades". Asia may claim he's "the hottest thing since smoke", but his tumbling verbal torrent catches fire only intermittently; he does, though, deserve credit for attempting to avoid rapping about death, despite his widespread employment of wartime metaphors. Muggs's ...
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European markets fell more than 10 percent at the opening but came off their lows a bit later as investors looked desperately to global financial authorities.
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The new rules would cut the sulfur content of the fuels ships use in controlled areas along coasts by 63 percent as of July of 2010.
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Global stocks dove after a rout a day earlier on Wall Street. Investors looked desperately to global financial authorities, who were meeting later in Washington.
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Asian economies face a "rough ride" for at least the next year as weakening consumer demand from developed countries hurt the region's exports, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday.
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Financial markets across the Asia-Pacific region are universally lower a day after the U.S. stock market plunges to a new five-year low.
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The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed), a not-for-profit organization committed to advancing innovations in livestock health as a means of reducing poverty, announced today that it has received funding to carry out its mission of "protecting livestock, saving
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Friday, activity remained hectic in Asia at the end of the week and gloomier data were released from some key economies in the region.
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Stock markets plunged from Tokyo to Mumbai. And real estate prices were tumbling from Seoul to New Delhi.
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SINGAPORE (AP) _ Oil prices plummeted to a one-year low below $83 a barrel Friday in Asia as investor fears of a severe global economic downturn sparked a panicked sell-off of equities and crude.
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The new rules would cut the sulfur content of the fuels ships use in controlled areas along coasts by 63 percent as of July of 2010.
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Orrin Rankin Magill Jr., 87, the former director of the CIA's East Asia Pacific region who later married hundreds of Fairfax County couples as a court-appointed civil celebrant, died of prostate cancer Sept. 23 at his home in McLean.
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Lessons from Japan's "Lost Decade" and the Asian Financial Crisis may provide clues for easing the credit crunch
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Stocks in the region suffer historic losses as economic news goes from bad to worse
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Oil prices rebounded from a 13-month low to rise above US$80 a barrel Monday in Asia on expectations that a pledge by European countries to keep banks from collapsing may stabilize a tumultuous global financial system.
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Asian and Pacific markets were mixed in Monday trading, coming after a weekend in which world leaders promised to shore up financial markets.
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Markets in Europe and Asia bounce back strongly after world leaders promise more government backing for the troubled financial system, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng trading 10 percent higher.
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Battered Asian stock markets moderately rebounded on Monday following an unprecedented worldwide effort to tame the financial crisis. Financial rescue initiatives accelerated over the weekend after catastrophic market losses on Friday.
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