SE Asia Stocks-Manila, Jakarta underperform - Reuters


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SE Asia Stocks-Manila, Jakarta underperform
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Indonesia, Southeast Asia's second-best performer in 2011, has gained 3.5 percent this year. The only regional market to have a smaller gain in 2012 is Malaysia, which has risen 0.5 percent. Maxi Liesyaputra, equity analyst at BNI Sekuritas in Jakarta ...
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Asia Markets Called Mixed To Lower On Tuesday RTT News
Swiber Holdings secures contracts worth US$216m Channel News Asia
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South Asia trade liberalisation can save $2billion: study - South Asian News Agency

South Asia trade liberalisation can save $2billion: study
South Asian News Agency
Dhaka (SANA)Increasing trade in South Asia at preferential rates on a range of products that have both high intra-regional trade potential and high prospects for improving consumer welfare could save at least $2 billion per year, says a report.

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India calls for South Asia research on common diseases - South Asian News Agency

India calls for South Asia research on common diseases
South Asian News Agency
DELHI(SANA)South Asian countries should together work for research on diseases affecting them and which are responsible for a high mortality rate, India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad says. “Each country in south Asia can take a lead in one of many ...

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US Diplomats to Visit South Asia - Voice of America (blog)


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US Diplomats to Visit South Asia
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The US State Department says it is sending two senior diplomats to South Asia later this month to consult with government and civil society leaders on issues that include education and human trafficking, as well as accountability and reconciliation ...
Under Secretary of State Maria Otero and Assistant Secretary of State Robert O ... US Department of State (press release)
Two top US officials set for India, B'desh, Lanka, Nepal Deccan Chronicle

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Talking war and peace in South Asia - The Express Tribune


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Talking war and peace in South Asia
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PHOTO: FILE Speakers displayed different expectations of what the future holds for the Indo-Pak relationship at an interactive session on “Peace and Conflict in South Asia” here on Monday. Manzoor Ijaz, a journalist seemed quite optimistic, ...

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Is Myanmar the new Asian tiger? - Aljazeera.com


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Is Myanmar the new Asian tiger?
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Bangkok, Thailand - While the big story of 2012 in south-west Asia is the increasingly lethal US-Iran psychodrama, there's no bigger story in south-east Asia in the Year of the Dragon than the controlled opening of Myanmar. Everyone and his neighbour, ...
Burma back on the map: Tourism returns to South-east Asia's forbidden land The Independent

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Central & South Asia Several killed in Afghan blast - Aljazeera.com


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Central & South Asia Several killed in Afghan blast
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Car bomb explodes outside police headquarters in Kandahar, killing at least nine people and injuring 19. At least nine people have been killed after a car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city, officials said.

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