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Important changes are underway for Southeast Asia’s relationship with its biggest trading partner, the People’s Republic of China.

There’s one big element missing before we can create a truly transparent, seamless and open international trading framework.

Digital or financial technology – including mobile internet access, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and big data – can make international trade more efficient and support financing options.

The World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement provides a roadmap for developing economies to increase trade while also increasing the benefits it provides to their citizens.

Making it easier for workers to move between countries is key to liberalizing the trade in services and unleashing the benefits it will produce across national and regional economies.

Simmering trade disputes are decreasing the beneficial effects of free trade and could in the long-term damage the rules-based order upon which global commerce is based.

To level the playing field in Asia and the Pacific, women-owned companies need financial backing to support their importing and exporting needs.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need to support trade to not only move medical supplies but also to bolster economies

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a guarantee for a $25 million trade loan to the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) to purchase medical supplies as part of the country’s response to the novel ....

The government requested financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support the National Highway Authority (NHA) in constructing new roads and improving existing ones along the backbone from Peshawar to Karachi, to Gwadar Port in Baluchistan, as well as connections between Pakistan and the People’s Republic of China. Following the completion of loan preparatory activities in May 2007 and loan negotiations in October 2007, the ADB Board in December 2007 approved a multitranche financing facility (MFF) for $900 million to support the NTCIP–Tranche 1.

Ensuring food is safe to eat is a public good. People’s health depends on it, and so does the health of economies.

Trade facilitation, by reducing trade costs and raising the efficiency of moving goods across borders, is integral to international trade.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that a UK-U.S. trade deal would be very difficult to agree, saying protectionist sentiment worldwide was making trade agreements harder to negotiate.

At a ceremony honoring nurses at the White House on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump contradicted a New Orleans nurse who said the availability of personal protective equipment has been 'sporadic.'

At a ceremony honoring nurses at the White House on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump contradicted a New Orleans nurse who said the availability of personal protective equipment has been 'sporadic.'

The S&P 500 and the Dow fell on Wednesday but the Nasdaq ended higher. The indexes pulled back late in the session after U.S. President Donald Trump said China may or may not keep a trade deal between the two countries. Fred Katayama reports.

Daniel J. Tobiansky, Meredith C. Miles, Franz Goller, and Matthew J. Fuxjager

Performance trade-offs can dramatically alter an organism's evolutionary trajectory by making certain phenotypic outcomes unattainable. Understanding how these trade-offs arise from an animal's design is therefore an important goal of biology. To explore this topic, we study how androgenic hormones, which regulate skeletal muscle function, influence performance trade-offs relevant to different components of complex reproductive behaviour. We conduct this work in golden-collared manakins (Manacus vitellinus), a Neotropical bird in which males court females by rapidly snapping their wings together above their back. Androgens help mediate the snap displays by radically increasing the twitch speed of a dorsal wing muscle [scapulohumeralis caudalis (SH)], which actuates the bird's wing-snap. Through hormone manipulations and in situ muscle recordings, we test how these positive effects on SH speed influence trade-offs with endurance. Indeed, this trait impacts the display by shaping signal length. We find that androgen-dependent increases in SH speed incur a cost to endurance, particularly when this muscle performs at its functional limits. Moreover, when behavioural data are overlaid on our muscle recordings, displaying animals appear to balance display speed with fatigue-induced muscle fusion (physiological tetanus) to generate the fastest possible signal while maintaining an appropriate signal duration. Our results point to androgenic hormone action as a functional trigger of trade-offs in sexual performance—they enhance one element of a courtship display, but in doing so, impede another.

The trade war between the United States and China has turned real estate investors' interest to Southeast Asian countries, in which the Vietnamese industrial market emerges as a bright spot in the region.

Ducati India कंपनी भारतीय बाजार में अपनी दमदार बाइक Multistrada 950 को लॉन्च करने जा रही है। हालांकि यह बाइक काफी समय पहले ही लॉन्च हो जाती लेकिन भारत सहित दुनियाभर में फैले वायरस और लॉकडाउन के चलते कंपनी को इसकी लॉन्चिंग टाल दी थी।

Saudi Aramco’s IPO saga has turned into “A Tale of Two Princes.” As Saudi Arabia’s day-to-day ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has guided the IPO far from public view, his half-brother Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman stepped onto center stage in Vienna last week, presiding over a crucial gathering of OPEC and its oil-producing allies […]

Liverpool already have one song synonymous with the club but they did attempt to officially do likewise with another. The Reds tried to trademark 'Allez Allez Allez'..

Lucianne Walkowicz says the American Girl doll 'Luciana Vega' stole her name and likeness

The former Oasis star - whose mother Peggy hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland originally - has revealed he's considered putting

The extent to which Brazilian soy production and trade contribute to climate change depends largely on the location where soybeans are grown, according to a new study. In some municipalities, carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the export of soybean and derivatives are more than 200 times higher than in others.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was "very torn" about whether to end the so-called Phase 1 U.S.-China trade deal, just hours after top trade officials from both countries pledged to press ahead with implementing it despite coronavirus economic wreckage.

The coronavirus pandemic is transforming the funeral industry and leading people to seek alternatives to traditions dating back hundreds of years, experts say.

Deputy Irish Premier Simon Coveney has said the Covid-19 pandemic has made the timeline for a UK-EU trade deal "virtually impossible".

‘There’s so much medicine that comes at springtime.’ A camp to connect Gitxsan families with their territory takes on a special role. 

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The poor financial health of state electricity boards could pose significant business risks for power traders in the country, says Fitch.

Market may see range-bound trading this week in the absence of any major trigger.

A trading combination involving Nifty options is gaining prominence among savvy trading desks of institutional investors.

Gains in the financial sector led the way as Canada's main stock index posted a triple-digit advance in late morning trading, while the loonie rose compared with the U.S. dollar.

The UK will begin the first round of post-Brexit trade deal talks with the US this week.

Britain and the US are set to begin negotiations on an "ambitious" post-Brexit free trade agreement.

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Trad says she will cooperate with investigation into allegation she interfered in appointment of school principal

Queensland’s deputy premier and treasurer, Jackie Trad, has stood down from ministerial duties over an investigation into the appointment of a Brisbane principal.

The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) is investigating the recruitment and selection process for the principal of the Inner City South Secondary College.

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft seek exemption from threatened Chinese tariffs.

Her new book, “Welcome to the Party,” explores surrogacy.

Santa Margarita's Josette Odgers finds solace in winning two state swimming titles before the coronavirus shutdown: 'We made the best of the times we had.'

Closures dragged total sales down, despite a 109.6% jump in online retail sales for the month – the highest increase on record.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the move in an address to the nation on Sunday.

China's government is putting on a show of sending aid to countries suffering from COVID-19, but undermining efforts to control the source of further pandemics.