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RBI CIRCULAR
Banking Finance
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August 13, 2025
Aadhaar Enabled Payment System – Due Dili- gence of AePS Touchpoint Operators 1. Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) is a payment system operated by National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) that facilitates interoperable transactions using...
DMCC Hosts First-ever Roadshow in Indonesia
Emirates 24|7
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August 13, 2025
DMCC has concluded its first-ever Made For Trade Live (MFTL) roadshow in Jakarta, reinforcing the growing economic partnership between the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. During the event, DMCC announced a 13% increase in Southeast Asian...
Western aid cuts could derail Southeast Asia’s just energy transition, deepen regional divides: experts
Eco-Business
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August 13, 2025
A sharp drop in Western development aid threatens to derail Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition, hit its poorest nations hardest and tilt the region’s strategic ties further toward Asian powers such as China, Japan and South Korea, experts...
BSKE postponement: Mandaue barangay captains welcome move
Cebu Daily News
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August 14, 2025
Barangay Captains in Mandaue City attend the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act orientation at the session hall on Thursday, August 14. MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Barangay captains in Mandaue City welcomed the recently signed law...
Myanmar to face defending champions Philippines in final group match
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
Myanmar women’s footballers are seen bravely. PHOTO: MFF The final day of Group B matches in the 2025 ASEAN Women’s Championship in Vietnam takes place today, with Myanmar facing defending champions the Philippines. Both Group B matches will kick...
P3 jeepney fare hike still under review – LTFRB-7
Cebu Daily News
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August 14, 2025
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A proposed P3 increase in public utility jeepney fares is still under careful study, transport officials said. Transport officials warn that any sudden fare adjustment could ripple through the economy and burden commuters....
CCMC: Nice Archival seeks full audit of missing plans
Cebu Daily News
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August 14, 2025
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Nearly a decade after it was first promised, the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) is again under scrutiny. This time, over reports that critical construction plans detailing its exact dimensions, layout, and materials...
“They Built Ocean-Ready Boats 40,000 Years Ago”: Archaeologists Find Ancient Philippine Tools Proving Early Humans Mastered Deep-Sea Voyages
Sustainability Times
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August 12, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🌊 Researchers discovered advanced maritime technology in the Philippines from over 40,000 years ago. 🛠️ Evidence includes sophisticated boat-building and deep-sea fishing techniques. 🌿 Microscopic analysis of stone tools revealed...
Constitutional Council approves Priyantha Weerasooriya as 37th IGP
Daily FT
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The Constitutional Council has approved President Anura Kumara Disanayake’s recommendation to appoint Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya as the 37th IGP of the country. This decision was made when the Constitutional...
Veteran and Now-Liberal MP Pledges Motion to Criminalise Burning the Australian Flag
The Epoch Times
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August 13, 2025
A dog wears an Australian flag, as they wait to see King Charles III outside Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 20, 2024. Mark Baker - Pool/Getty Images Australia’s shadow assistant minister for defence has pledged to move a motion to...
Don’t underestimate Trump the peacemaker
The Times
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Blessed are the peacemakers, the Sermon on the Mount tells us, “for they will be called the children of God”. Why so? Perhaps because peacemakers are often invisible, seen only by God. That’s not, of course, the Donald Trump approach. He doesn’t...
Pacific Islands focus: community-driven solutions, climate in the courts and celebrating independence
Croakey Health Media
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August 11, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: Local solutions to public health issues are showcased in this month’s edition of the Pacific Islands focus column. Isabelle Zhu-Maguire, PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, Department of...
Filipinas’ Asean semifinal hopes hinge on Myanmar clash
Inquirer
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August 13, 2025
The Philippine women’s football team known as Filipinas in action during the Asean Women’s Championship. –CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Philippine women’s football team may need more than a victory to secure a spot in the semifinals as it plays Myanmar to...
Killing the Witness: Gaza’s Journalists and the Global Blueprint of Disappearance
Common Dreams
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August 12, 2025
On the night of August 10, 2025, the air over Gaza City hung heavy with dust and the steady thrum of generators. In a modest press tent pitched outside the bomb-scarred shell of al-Shifa Hospital, Al Jazeera’s last reporting team in the city...
Australia’s digital infrastructure is doing the work of deterrence
The Strategist
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August 12, 2025
When asked on Insiders about the United States’ review of AUKUS contributions, Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy made a subtle but important point: Australia’s aid and diplomatic spending, particularly in the Pacific, should count as part...
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Northeast Today
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August 13, 2025
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Living, laughing and loving in the ’70s
Queanbeyan CityNews
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August 12, 2025
Grahame Bond as the cross-dressing Aunty Jack. Norman Gunston and Denise Drysdale… Gold Logies time. Women on the march in Melbourne. Margaret Fulton’s elevation of the humble crockpot. A newspaper vendor in Sydney has news of The Dismissal. I’m...
U-20 women's football team returns home
New Age Bangladesh
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Staff Correspondent 12 August, 2025, 17:07 Bnagladesh U-20 women's football team players are seen upon their arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday. | BFF photo The Bangladesh Under-20 women's football team arrived in the...
Filipinas face tough Aussies
Philstar
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August 9, 2025
Olmin Leyba - The Philippine Star August 10, 2025 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — After overpowering Timor Leste, holder Philippines sets out to hurdle a major stumbling block on the road to the Asean Football Federation Women’s Championship-MSIG...
Delhiwale: Best Independent Day sama
Hindustan Times
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August 13, 2025
Tomorrow is Pandrah Agast—15 August, aka Azadi Diwas, aka Independence Day. Some officegoers might enjoy the day as chutti from work. But you may avail of your life’s best 15th August celebrations by heading to the Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi....