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Matthew Koder has been named as the head of Bank of America for global corporate and investment banking sectors of Asia-Pacific region. Matthew Koder is a UBS AG banker. He will play a newly created role. His role will bring the departure of Swiss banks from this region. Koder has spent more than 20 years in capital markets and investment banking. Recently he was working with UBS. His period with UBS has a total span of 8 years. This was the biggest hiring of any Swiss bank working in Singapore.Matthew Koder has been named as the head of Bank of America for global corporate and... more
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In the midst of a three-day meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh 21 of the poorest countries in Africa and the Asia-Pacific who are trying to draft a climate change declaration received ominous news.
Oxfam Australia says that climate change could leave up to 75 million people in the Asia-Pacific region homeless by 2050.In the midst of a three-day meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh 21 of the poorest countries... more
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North Korea said on Tuesday that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex, and threatened to restore facilities there that the North has used to produce plutonium fuel for nuclear weapons. The threat came a day after U.S. officials acknowledged that their talks with North Korea on how to verify its report on past nuclear activities had failed to make progress.
For months, U.S. experts together with North Korean engineers, had been disabling key facilities at Yongbyon in a move that at least temporarily shut down the North's only known source of plutonium. If the North rebuilds the facilities, it would nullify a key foreign policy achievement for President George W. Bush.
North Korea said on Tuesday that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex,... more
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North Korea has said it will expel South Korean workers from a mountain resort, in a further sign of worsening relations between the two countries.
The move comes after a South Korean tourist was shot dead last month by a soldier at Mount Kumgang, a special tourist zone in the North.
Seoul questioned the account given by Pyongyang - which said the tourist had strayed into a military zone.
The South has suspended tours to the resort pending an inquiry.
A military statement carried by North Korean media said the government would expel all South Koreans deemed "unnecessary" from the resort.
Although visits by tourists have been suspended, more than 260 southerners are working on Mount Kumgang - which had been regarded as one of the symbols of reconciliation between the two Koreas.
North Korea has said it will expel South Korean workers from a mountain resort, in a... more
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Fears about the rapid spread of an intestinal virus that has killed 26 young children reached the Chinese capital today, as it emerged that doctors have recorded almost 1,500 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in Beijing.
The nationwide tally leapt to 11,905 today after the government ordered all local health officials to notify it of cases. More than half are in Fuyang City, in eastern Anhui province, where 22 of the victims died after becoming infected with Enterovirus 71. The virus has caused sporadic outbreaks of the disease in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997.Fears about the rapid spread of an intestinal virus that has killed 26 young children... more
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