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www.theasianstar.com Vol 16 - Issue 48
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Ottawa currently coldest capital city in the world as a deep freeze grips Canada
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he extreme cold has pushed Ottawa well below the rest of the world’s coldest capital cities. Mongolia’s capital, Ulan Bator, is on average the coldest national capital in the world. But Ottawa’s overnight temperature of –29 C on Wednesday fell below that for Ulan Bator, which experienced an overnight low of about –26 C. Moscow and Astana, Kazakhstan, two of the other coldest capitals according to the World Atlas, recorded Wednesday overnight lows of around 2
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Desi “Indian” diaspora largest in the world There are more people of Indian origin living overseas than anyone else. The Indian diaspora is the world’s largest, with slightly more than 15.6 million people from India living overseas. The Indian diaspora constitutes 6% of the total number of international migrants (people living outside the country of their birth), which was estimated at 243 million in 2015. The global figure has risen by 10% over that recorded in 2010, a recently released United Nations report said. In other
words, out of a global population of 7.3 billion, one of every 30 people was a migrant in 2015. However, if computed as a percentage of the world’s population, the growth of thediaspora has been largely static, from 3.2% in 2010 to 3.3% in 2015, according to the ‘World Migration Report (2018)’, published by the International Organisation for Migration, a UN agency. According to the report, nearly half of all the international migrants worldwide in 2015
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Foreign ownership data released so far just the ‘tip of the iceberg’: StatsCan director Last week’s government data release, which was the most comprehensive study to date of foreign ownership of Canadian real estate, was just “the tip of the iceberg,” says the director of Statistics Canada’s new housing program. The new year will bring the release of more data providing a deeper, broader, and “much more nuanced” look into Canadian property ownership, said Haig McCarrell, director of the Statistics Canada
Community mourns Oak Bay girls, aged 4 and 6, found dead on Christmas discovered New details an injured are emerging man, whose about two young condition girls who were has not found dead in a b e e n Vancouver Island disclosed, apartment on who was Christmas Day. Chloe Berry, left, and Aubrey Berry t h e n Police have said officers were called to a home transported to hospital. A family in Oak Bay on Monday evening friend has identified the children where the children’s bodies as six-year-old Chloe Berry and were discovered. Officers also
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division overseeing the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP). Last Tuesday marked the first release from the CHSP, an initiative supported by both StatsCan and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The release made local, national, and international headlines, with the Wall Street Journal reporting the study’s initial findings “garnered global attention.”
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Fatal fire in Mumbai kills 15 people
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