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Lockdown period used to augment healthcare infrastructure in country: Dr H
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 6 (ANI): The coronavirus-induced lockdown was utilised to quickly augment healthcare infrastructure in the country to fight rising COVID-19 cases, said Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday.
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NewsMobile, Logically join hands to combat 'fake news' across South East A
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], July 30 (ANI): In a bid to fight fake news, digital media platform - NewsMobile and news curation platform - Logically have joined hands to roll out a range of election and information integrity products across South East Asia - Including India, Singapore and the US.
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India responding with utmost urgency to COVID-19 from start: WHO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 22 (ANI): India is responding with utmost urgency to coronavirus from the very beginning and has been continuously strengthening preparedness and response measures, WHO Regional Director (South-East Asia) Poonam Khetrapal Singh said on Wednesday.
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As relations with US deteriorate, China seeks closer ties with Vietnam
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 22 (ANI): As its relations with US worsen over a range of issues, Beijing has moved to mend fences with Vietnam and other South East Asian neighbours.
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'PRC has doubled its campaign to impose an order of might makes right in S
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): The People's Republic of China (PRC) has doubled-down on its campaign to impose an order of "might makes right" in the South China Sea, said David R. Stilwell, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affair.
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Beijing accuses US of 'stirring division' in South China Sea
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 14 (ANI): Beijing on Tuesday asked the US to not stir up divisions between China and its South-East Asian neighbours in the South China Sea.
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India has 'scale, sophistication' to recalibrate economic relations with C
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 07 (ANI): India has the 'scale and sophistication' to recalibrate its economic relationship with China such that deeper interdependence reduces New Delhi's economic vulnerability, say economists.
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China discreetly launches initiative to combat 'illegal activities in key
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 5 (ANI): Without vying much attention of South-East Asian countries, China has discreetly initiated a maritime law enforcement initiative aimed at enhancing marine environmental protection and combating "illegal activities in key areas", including offshore oil explo
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US expects China to review Hong Kong policy in next 2 weeks: State Departm
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 19 (ANI): The United States expects China to make some changes in its policy pertaining to Hong Kong, "in the next week or two", Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell said on Friday.
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Amid LAC stand-off, India, China agree to handle differences through peac
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 05 (ANI): Amid stand-off in Eastern Ladakh, officials of India and China interacted through video-conferencing on Friday with the two sides agreeing that they should handle "their differences through peaceful discussion" while respecting each other's sensitivities an
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India to expand scope of repatriation of its citizens next week
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): India will expand the scope of repatriation of its stranded citizens from other countries in the next week i.e. May 15, even as four flights have already landed in the country.
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South, East Asia requires 1.9 million more nurses, midwives: WHO
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], April 8 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that countries in South-East Asia need to redouble efforts to strengthen and expand their cadres of nurses and midwives by 1.9 million to achieve good health for all by 2030.
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