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AIA presses on with portfolio diversification

AIA, Asia's largest publicly-listed life insurance and securities group, is looking to expand its portfolio to logistics and real estate-related projects in markets such as Thailand amid economic uncertainties.

Bangkok Post

Fed set to slow down rate rises this year

The US Federal Reserve is likely to lift interest rates by just 0.75% this year amid improving economic figures, benefiting Asian stock markets as well as high-risk assets, investment company Principal Asset Management said yesterday.

Bangkok Post

Japan, Greece step up security ties as 'strategic partners'

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, have agreed to strengthen their security, defense and economic ties and pledged to cooperate in responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other threats in Europe and Asia

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Adani accuses short-seller Hindenburg of attacking India

India’s Adani Group, run by Asia’s richest man, has hit back at a report from U_S_-based short-seller Hindenburg Research, calling it “malicious”, “baseless” and full of “selective misinformation.”

The Independent UK

Asian shares mixed after last week's gains on Wall Street

Shares are trading mixed in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks closed higher on Friday, capping a third week of gains out of the last four

The Independent UK

Blackpink In Your Area Pop-up Store & Exhibition at Iconsiam

Blinks have until Feb 7 to enjoy Blackpink's biggest pop-up store in Asia at Iconsiam on Charoen Nakhon Road. ‘Blackpink In Your Area Pop-up Store & Exhibition ‘ occupies 1,200sqm in the Iconsiam Attraction Hall on the sixth floor. It's dubbed as a word-first exhbition of Blackpink's official (and adorable)…

Bangkok Post

Asian Games will be hockey qualifying event for 2024 Olympics, confirms FIH president

BHUBANESWAR: The hockey venue for the Hangzhou Asian Games later this year is almost ready and there is no ambiguity about the continental multi-sport event being a qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics, International Hockey Federation (FIH) president Ikram Tayyab said on Sunday.

The Times of India

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NATO's Stoltenberg in South Korea to deepen ties in Asia

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in South Korea on Sunday, the first stop on a trip that will include Japan and is aimed at strengthening ties with the U.S. allies in the face of the war in Ukraine and rising competition with China.

Reuters

Egypt’s Sisi Visits Azerbaijan as Part of Asia Tour

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Azerbaijan on Friday as part of a tour of Asia that has so far taken him to India. Presidency spokesman Bassam Rady said the visit to Baku aims to bolster the unique ties that bind their countries. Sisi will meet with President Ilham…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Business is booming for BDMS

From its origins owning a small hospital 50 years ago, today Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) has become the largest hospital network in Asia-Pacific.

Bangkok Post

Southeast Asia poised to scale up digital drive

Digital development is likely to be scaled up in Southeast Asia this year, defying a global economic slowdown and the headwinds of monetary tightening, says London-based think tank Asia House.

Bangkok Post

SET gains as Asian bourses enjoy upbeat week

RECAP: Asian stocks rose on Friday and were poised for their fifth straight week of gains as China's reopening and data highlighting a resilient US economy boosted investor sentiment.

Bangkok Post

Travel demand to Asia soars: Bali and Japan top the list

Bali and Japan were the most popular Asian destinations, with other cities not far behind as Australians head overseas again

The New Daily

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Olympics-OCA offers Russian, Belarusian athletes opportunity to compete at Asian Games

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Thursday it has offered to let Russian and Belarusian athletes take part in the Asian Games, a first step towards them competing at the Paris 2024 summer Olympics.

Reuters

Olympics-Russian athletes could participate in Asian competitions - IOC

Russian and Belarusian athletes could participate in Asian events with the International Olympic Committee looking at options for their return to international competitions.

Bangkok Post

Philippines shakes off inflation for best growth since 1976

The Philippines weathered the fastest inflation and highest policy rate in 14 years to deliver one of Asia’s strongest expansions, shoring up the economy by the most in decades amid a bleak global outlook.

Bangkok Post

Asian companies must 'act now'

Some of Japan's biggest energy and resource companies are pushing full steam ahead to expand fossil fuel projects across Asia. But banks across Asia and corporate Japan -- including Mitsubishi, Mizuho Bank and J-Power -- are feeling the heat from major investors calling for greater action to tackle the climate…

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Bangkok Post

Japan Expo Thailand returns for 8th edition at CentralWorld

G-Yu Creative recently organised a press conference for the Japan Expo Thailand 2023. Now in its eighth edition, the event -- dubbed Asia's biggest Japan expo -- will take place from Feb 3-5 from 10am to 9.30pm at CentralWorld.

Tribune News Service

Carter Center: Guinea worm disease one step closer to eradication

ATLANTA — When the Carter Center assumed leadership of the global Guinea Worm Eradication Program in 1986, about 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia were afflicted with the debilitating illness caused by the parasite.

Los Angeles Times

For older Asian American immigrants, ballroom dancing was supposed to be a safe haven

LOS ANGELES — When a gunman fatally shot 11 people and wounded nine others in Monterey Park over the weekend, it was more than just the latest tragedy in America’s horrific mass-shooting epidemic.

Fortune

One of Wall Street’s most feared short-selling research firms just accused Asia’s richest man of a multibillion-dollar fraud

Shares of Adani Group companies plummeted after its founder was accused of “pulling the largest con in corporate history.”

The Times of India

Hindenburg’s short sell call shaves $12 billion off Gautam Adani stocks

MUMBAI: Shares in Adani Group companies lost $12 billion in market value after US investor Hindenburg Research said it was shorting the conglomerate’s stocks and accused firms owned by Asia’s richest person of “brazen” market manipulation and accounting fraud.

The Guardian - AU

Unusual sightings of ‘devil bird’ across Melbourne raise migration mysteries for researchers

Increase in reports of the koel and its loud mating call south of its usual territory may be attributable to climate change, scientists say

The Guardian - UK

Guinea worm disease could be second ever human illness to be eradicated

As cases fall, the condition that once affected millions of people in Africa and Asia could also be the first to be wiped out without medicines

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