India's Harmanpreet Singh was crowned as Men's Player Of The Year and his former compatriot PR Sreejesh was named Men's Goalkeeper Of The Year, announced the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Friday.

Pankaj Advani clinched a historic 28th World title, his seventh in a row, after outclassing England's Robert Hall 4-2 in the final.

Mumbai City FC rode on left-back Nathan Rodrigues' strike to hold Chennaiyin FC 1-1 in a thrilling draw in the 1000th match of the Indian Super League.

Gauff split from coach Brad Gilbert and flipped the script weeks later, however, winning her second WTA 1000 title last month at the China Open before reaching the Wuhan Open semis.

Czech Barbora Krejcikova on Sunday called for respect and professionalism in sports media as she hit out at "unprofessional" remarks made about her appearance during a broadcast on the Tennis Channel.

Odisha FC and Mohun Bagan Super Giant played out a 1-1 draw in an exciting Indian Super League match at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

Shravya Varma, the talented niece of film-maker Ram Gopal Varma, and badminton ace Srikanth Kidambi sealed their bond in a grand wedding ceremony in Hyderabad on Saturday.

The firm has chosen India's online home design firm Livspace for its first investment.

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Grab is in the midst of developing maps that are built with self-driving vehicles in mind.

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The Vertex Venture-backed company wants to clock revenue of $75-100 million and achieve profitability by 2021.

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The firm is particularly looking at those with differentiated technology, especially if it's scalable, says its MD Marc Dragon.

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There are US-based venture firms, with no presence in India so far, who are now looking to invest here.

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Agarwal described the global restructuring process as "95% complete."

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In January, Wandou raised $48-million Series B from SBI Holdings, Sugi Holdings, and XJ Holding.

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The firm is also looking at multiple strategies to deepen its activity in Southeast Asia.

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In 2019, JD.com merged its secondhand commodity trading platform Paipai.com with Aihuishou.

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The industry in China has begun to show signs of a pickup with a rise in bookings, Trip.com CEO Jane Jie Sun added.

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The race for customers in Indonesia is so intensive that e-payment firms are offer steep discounts.

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The tougher scrutiny could dampen investment flows into the region.

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The comments came in the midst of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s India visit.

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A solid foothold in Indonesia is one of the important prerequisites for overseas expansion.

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Generation Z, or people born in the mid-to-late 90s or later, make up 30% of the population in the archipelago.

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At 24 per cent of Indonesia’s GDP, the country’s logistics costs are among the highest in Southeast Asia.

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Instead of cashing in on the home-confined population, some food delivery apps have suspended operations.

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The opportunely timed sale gives Luckin a war chest to survive the hit to consumption from the epidemic.

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Alibaba can’t be included in the stock connect programme linking Hong Kong with the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges at present.

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CFO Maggie Wu told investors that China's retail and local consumer businesses would be hit hardest.

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The Japanese megabank and the Singapore-headquartered superapp get to plug gaps in their businesses.

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Once the price war is over, we can all collaborate, says Blue Bird president director Noni Purnomo.

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SGInnovate's head of venture investing Hsien-Hui Tong on top deep-tech investment trends in 2020.

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The Japanese conglomerate plans to spend up to $4.8 billion to purchase as much as 7% of its own shares.

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The M&A wave is seen as startups begin to struggle with the virus' impact on their cashflows.

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SoftBank behaves more like a private equity firm than an angel investor: Its capital is really debt, and it likes to invest in rivals and force them to merge.

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What may be happening to the value of a private-equity portfolio in the COVID-19 crisis?

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Overall, if we can learn from history, there is a decent chance startups are in for a rough time ahead.

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Investors are betting slower economic growth will spur opportunities for the distressed-assets firm.

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Rippledot Capital is said to be the sell-side advisor for the proposed transaction.

The post Danish facility management firm ISS Group to sell Thai unit for up to $150m appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

Omise dominates in Thailand thanks to its extensive relationships, but other markets pose more of a challenge.

The post Thai fintech startup Omise is betting on blockchain to cash in on e-commerce growth appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

RISE said it will use the funds to expand beyond Thailand to Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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The total cost of the project is estimated at $285 million.

The post IFC mulls $60m financing for Indorama’s Uzbekistan cotton farm project appeared first on DealStreetAsia.

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Global infections surpass 4m; cluster detected in Dordogne, new cases highlight risks as lockdowns eased

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New coronavirus infections rose again in Germany at the end of last week, a few days after leaders loosened social restrictions, while the Chinese city of Wuhan announced it had detected its first case in weeks, helping to push the global total past 4m on Sunday.

On the eve of the UK starting to ease its lockdown on Monday, the new cases in Germany and China illustrated the difficulties governments will face over the next months as they attempt to reopen their societies without triggering a second wave of infections.

Like man buns on scooters and ukulele busking, Covid-19 has now spread to the north from London – inspiring a coronavirus soapcom from our self-isolating comedy-writer

Up here in the north-west, we’re used to living in the slipstream of London’s sleek urban shenanigans. Whatever the cultural breakthrough – man buns on scooters, cashless ukulele busking, emotional support bees – it takes a while to reach the Lancaster and Morecambe Non-Metropolitan Area. If it ever does.

A Street Stranger Watch leads to a death and the appearance at midnight of the street’s original Victorian inhabitants

From parking fines to airline fares, society’s financialisation is seeing the collective cake shrink as the rich claim an ever larger slice

It is the dog end of August and the sun is shining in many places. A cue for all sorts of predatory people in the thriving British holiday trades to rip off customers who don’t always have a choice and feel ambushed.

In a remote and empty Lake District car park the other day my sister fell foul of an unclear car parking regime. It led to a fine being levied for outstaying the time she had paid for by a few minutes. It happens to us all. In crowded Notting Hill last week, a man told me his car had once been given a penalty notice while he was away at the ticket machine paying his £1.60 for 30 minutes.

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The number of jobless people in the US rose by more than 20 million in April, something deemed worthy of a mention in the “and in other news” slot on the BBC’s evening TV bulletin.

Sure, it was the 75th anniversary of VE day and there were socially distanced street parties to cover and archive footage of crowds gathered in front of Buckingham Palace to treasure.

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