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In Pakistan, Afghan refugees face hardship, hostility
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — When Khair Wali heard the Taliban had started kill...
May 18, 2022 - ANN
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Cambodia: Cambodia gets 1st publicly available EV charging unit
Chevron (Cambodia) Ltd., the local manager of the Caltex petroleum brand, on April 26 launched the K...
May 18, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Index shows nation world’s 2nd most influenced by China
Singapore has been ranked second in the world — behind Cambodia and just ahead of Thailand — in a st...
May 18, 2022 - ANN
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South Korea: Large retailers enter e-commerce market for designer goods
Large retailers including Hanwha and Shinsegae are keen to jump into the e-commerce market for desig...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: 70% of tech-enabled sexual violence cases in 2021 image-related
While attending an online event hosted on video conferencing platform Zoom last year, a woman in her...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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Laos: Luang Prabang sees 74% surge in visitor numbers
Since the Laos-China Railway became operational, more people in Laos have travelled around the count...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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Vietnam: Organic farming brings young couple the good life
Because of their passion for organic vegetables, Nguyen Thi Duyen and her husband, Nguyen Duc Chinh,...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Sabbaticals, leave programs part of banks’ progressive arsenal to attract and retain talent
Banks in Singapore have put in place progressive leave policies in recent years amid intensifying co...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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South Korea: AI robots being deployed to fill void in senior care
The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly cruel to older people. Digitally estranged, those living...
May 2, 2022 - ANN
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South Korea: Citizens to get younger by ditching ‘Korean age’
The transition committee for President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said April 11 that it would amend laws to...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Researchers identify 12 plants that remove toxic contaminants
Plants readily found in Singapore are now being tapped to clean the soil of toxic contaminants, with...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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Vietnam: Sweet flavor of lychee honey
Luc Ngan District in the northern province of Bac Giang is known as the land of lychee with more tha...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Congestion on trains sways people’s decision to telework
People are more likely to want to return to their workplaces rather than continue logging in from ho...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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China: Alibaba stake in AR glasses maker part of tech firm’s race to dominate metaverse
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading a $60 million investment round in Chinese augmented reality (A...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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Laos: Living with autism in Laos: This is Nadia’s story
Nadia is just like any other 15-year-old girl in secondary school. She enjoys dancing, singing, pain...
April 25, 2022 - ANN
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E-commerce a powerful untapped driver of rural agriculture
The increasing integration of rural agriculture communities and resources into the e-commerce world ...
April 13, 2022 - ANN
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Baidu expands self-driving taxi service to Zhejiang’s Wuzhen
Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc. said it will offer a self-driving taxi service in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Pro...
April 13, 2022 - ANN
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UNICEF: Poor reading skills among 10-year-olds
Less than 15% of schoolchildren in the Philippines, or about 3 in every 20, can read simple texts in...
April 13, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Sony Music opens SE Asia headquarters
Music and entertainment group Sony Music is cementing its long-term commitment to Singapore and Sout...
April 4, 2022 - ANN
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Bangladesh: Russian invasion of Ukraine exacerbates cotton price, affecting garment exports
Cotton prices surged to more than a decade high in the global market in the wake of the Russia-Ukrai...
April 4, 2022 - ANN
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Nepal: How Buddhist center in Poland became refuge for Nepalis fleeing war in Ukraine
At 9 p.m. on March 1, Waldemar Zych, a Polish citizen who’s popularly known by his Buddhist name Lam...
March 31, 2022 - ANN
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Indians take fight to court for right to be forgotten online
It is more than a decade since Indian actor and reality television star Ashutosh Kaushik was arreste...
March 31, 2022 - ANN
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Philippine designer fashions gowns by recycling trash
CAINTA, Philippines (Reuters) — Leonora Buenviaje has been making dresses out of waste materials for...
March 31, 2022 - ANN
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Bangladesh: Electricity coverage reaches 100%
It’s a milestone that can make the country proud. From a mere 47% in 2009, Bangladesh has now ensur...
March 30, 2022 - ANN
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Laos: Huge development project underway in Siphandone
Khong district, an island situated in the Mekong River in Champassak Province in the south of Laos i...
March 23, 2022 - ANN
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China: Parents fret over offspring who fail to measure up
Luo Yan and her husband are above average height, but their two daughters, ages 9 and 10, are no tal...
March 23, 2022 - ANN
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Cambodia: Mekong’s low flows cause lack of clean water
Low water flows in the Mekong River are to blame for the lack of clean water supply in Phnom Penh an...
March 11, 2022 - ANN
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Singapore: Lab-grown chicken meat offered at hawker food stall ‘tastes like the real thing’
In a world first, a hawker in Singapore recently offered a cell-cultured chicken meal at an affordab...
March 11, 2022 - ANN
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Philippine: Filipino becomes symbol of resistance to Asian hate in NYC
NEW YORK — On a cold, rainy day a year ago, a short, brown-skinned man stepped onto the stage at a p...
March 9, 2022 - ANN
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China:3 battlegrounds where NEVs will fight for future
From January to October last year, China’s new energy vehicle production reached 2.57 million units ...
March 4, 2022 - ANN
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