Avocado demand is driven not just by their supposed health benefits, but by their newness, exclusivity and symbolic, aspirational value to a burgeoning middle class.
Moon Jae-in is expected to win the May 9 presidential election.
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Balancing domestic expectations and delicate relations with neighbours while trying to deal with North Korea’s race to become a nuclear power will make for a challenging five-year term.
Indian and Chinese representatives mark the launch of the New Development Bank.
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Chinese real estate investors might be more interested in investing in their homeland rather than Australia, given the changing market and regulations.
Seismic waves observed in South Korea after North Korea claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb on January 6 2016.
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The key question is whether North Korea does have nuclear weapons that it can readily use against the United States and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.
In Russia and China, Donald Trump now faces two centres of power that are no longer willing or feel the need to comply with America’s interests and priorities.
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The message from the US vice-president was that the US would stay the course and, if anything, act more assertively in preserving stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
Over 70% of Ethiopia’s population is under 30 years of age. This can be converted to economic muscle if policies are introduced to tackle the high unemployment levels in the country.
China ‘s foreign direct investments and acquisitions have grown tremendously worldwide.
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Regardless of how the US sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula plays out, the international community will ultimately have to accept and learn to manage a nuclear North Korea.