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Why Are Asia's Markets Trailing The World?
Shanghai :: China | 2 months ago
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It's a curious thing when the world's biggest growth market, Asia, has dramatically underperformed American and European stock markets, this year and over the past 12 months. Particularly as it should be a key beneficiary of any green shoots of
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Oil or orangutans: can consumers choose?
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
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THE deaths of thousands of orangutans amid widespread environmental degradation have been laid at the door of the oil palm industry. It's an emotive issue that's prompted an attempt in Australia's parliament to force manufacturers to list palm oil as
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Beef producers doubt predictions of industry boom
Canberra :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Australia is already the world's second-largest beef exporter and the Government's Asian White Paper forecasts the industry to double by 2050. But people in the industry say a lack of government support, along with competition from the mining
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South-East Asia and China: All change at ASEAN
Kampong Ayer :: Brunei | 3 months ago
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At the same time, the United States last year deepened its strategic ties with Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia as part of an Asia pivot...At the same time, the organisation has acquired a new secretary-general. Le Luong Minh, a
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75 bird species find a home around Delhi?s dirtiest drain
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
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One of the longest sewage drains in Delhi the Najagfarh drain has become a favoured destination for both migratory and resident birds with over 75 different species flocking there this January. The drain that passes through Najafgarh in South-West
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Developing world's middle class is growing – but so is its 'near poor'
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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A young potter works on a vase at a workshop in Karachi, Pakistan, 2009. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images While the developing world's emerging middle class has more than doubled in size over the past decade the number of people classified as
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Concern as mercury emissions grow
Geneva :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Rising mercury emissions increase risk to humans Environment reporter, BBC News Rising gold prices has seen an increase in small-scale gold mines, most of which use mercury Developing nations are facing growing health and environmental risks from
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Tribunal backs travel on pension
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
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The 62-year-old's disability pension was initially cancelled in March because he did not have a fixed address in Australia, did not meet residential requirements needed for the payment and spends two-thirds of the year overseas. The man, who suffers
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Burma remains the major source of drugs in the region, UNODC says
Yangon :: Myanmar | 5 months ago
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are now either the number one or number two illicit drug of use in 13 of the 15 Asia Pacific countries surveyed in the report. China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, with large-scale manufacturing' reported in Cambodia...During the past five
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The hard truth about software
Shanghai :: China | 5 months ago
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The Computer Centre at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai...Krishnan The explosion in mobile phone penetration in the last few years in many developing countries, particularly in India and China, has fuelled speculative chatter that these
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