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How the Paris attacks are affecting Asian and European businesses

November 19, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tom Krisher and Marley Jay NEW YORK (AP) — The value of stocks, crude oil and the European currency were expected to fall over the week amid investors’ worry about what the recent Paris terror attacks might do to consumer confidence and key parts of the global economy. The public nature of the targets […]

Filed Under: Business, World News Tagged With: 2015, Asia, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, China Eastern Airlines Corp, China Southern Airlines Co, European Union, Eva Airways Corp, France, Hainan Airlines Co, Howard Archer, ISIS, Jack Ablin, MSCI, NATO, NT, Oil Price Information Service, Paris, Sam Stovall, Shane Oliver, Suez Canal, Vol 34 No 48 | November 21 - November 27, japan

Fast-growing Asian aviation confronts safety challenges

April 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kelvin Chan Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — For Asia’s aviation industry, the growing pains have just begun. A year of disasters, the disappearance of Flight 370 and financial turbulence highlight the challenges confronting the world’s biggest air travel market, where governments, regulators and airlines are struggling to keep up after a decade of […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Desmond Ross, Endau Analytics, European Union, Fast-growing Asian, IATA, ICAO, Including Flight, Indonesia, International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organization, Lion Air, Pacific Aviation Safety Office, Shukor Yusof, Thailand, Ukraine, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17

Scholar and journalist tried in closed hearings

November 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erica Kinetz Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Closed-door court hearings of a prominent journalist and a noted minority scholar held on Friday were sharply criticized for violating due process and chilling freedom of expression as Chinese authorities tighten oversight of public speech.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Aritz Parra, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Communist Party, European Union, Guzelnur Ali, Han Chinese, Hong Lei, Human Rights Watch, Ilham Tohti, Intermediate Court, Journalist Gao Yu, Mo Shaoping, Muslim Uighurs, Nicholas Bequelin, President Xi Jinping, Vol 33 No 49 | November 29 - December 5, Xinjiang High Court

Bangladesh trade privileges suspended over safety

July 6, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama announced June 27 the suspension of U.S. trade privileges for Bangladesh because of concerns over labor rights and worker safety that intensified after hundreds died there in the global garment industry’s worst accident earlier this year.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Aminul Islam, Bangladesh, European Union, Foreign Ministry, GSP, Joe Crowley, Obama, Robert Menendez, Senate Democrats, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, South Asian, Trade Representative Mike Froman, Vol 32 No 28 | July 6 - July 12, WASHINGTON, World Trade Organization

Myanmar president frees prisoners ahead of visit to US

May 25, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Aye Aye Win The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s president pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on May 17, just ahead of a historic state visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides’ improved relations brought about by the former pariah nation’s democratic reforms.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, Ba Myo Thein, Barack Obama, Burma, European Union, Last November, Myanmar, President Thein Sein, Southeast Asian, United States, Vol 32 No 22 | May 25 - May 31, White House, YANGON, Ye Aung, Zaw Htay

China, US file trade cases against each other

September 23, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Joe McDonald THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING, CHINA (AP) — China filed a World Trade Organization case on Monday, Sept. 17, challenging U.S. anti-dumping measures on billions of dollars of kitchen appliances, paper, and other goods, adding to worsening trade strains as global demand weakens.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Beijing, Canada, China, Chinese, European Union, General Motors Co, Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama, Shen Danyang, US, United States, Vietnam, Vol 31 No 39 | September 22 - September 28, WTO, World Trade Organization, japan

Myanmar reforms leave political prisoners behind

May 19, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Todd Pitman The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years — alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner of conscience all but forgotten by the world.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Although Myanmar, Amnesty International, Aung San Suu Kyi, Aye Aung, Catherine Ashton, David Mathieson, European Union, Home Ministry, Human Rights Watch, Political Prisoners, President Thein Sein, San Myint, Thant Zaw, Vol 31 No 21 | May 19 - May 25, Win Mra, YANGON

India licenses generic copy of patented Bayer cancer drug

March 17, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katy Daigle The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India effectively ended Bayer’s monopoly on a patented cancer drug last Monday, licensing a much cheaper generic under a unique law aimed at keeping costs affordable. In a decision likely to upset Western pharmaceuticals, the patent office approved Natco Pharma Ltd.’s application to produce the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Bayer Corp, Berlin, European Union, HIV, Health Movement, India, Madineedi Adinarayana, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Natco Pharma Ltd, Patent Act, Supreme Court, Vol 31 No 12 | March 17 - March 23

Signs of China’s economic slow-down add to dim global outlook

October 1, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Elaine Kurtenbach The Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Signs that the powerhouse Chinese economy is slowing have spooked global markets and sharpened fears that the world economy will not escape another recession, so much so that a small, preliminary survey of Chinese manufacturers contributed to a global stock market plunge this week.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2011, Andy Rothman, Beijing, CLSA, China, Chinese, Deutsche Bank, European Union, HSBC, Hongbin Qu, IMF, Peng Yunliang, Shanghai Securities, United States, Vol 30 No 40 | October 1 - October 7, Xianfang Ren

Commentary: In the whaling debate, consider empirical justification over illogical fallacies

April 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The current whaling debate is one that is perpetually heated, and one that will be around for quite some time. Among the many political and emotional maelstroms

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, Asia, Canada, Captain Watson, Commodore Perry, European Union, Janell Duey, Masayuki Komatsu, Perhaps Japan, Sea Shepherd, Spain, Vol 30 No 18 | April 30 - May 6, WWII, Whale Wars, attention, culture, whaling

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