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Mild winter disrupts ice road to Canadian diamond mines
Published on 30/03/2024
» An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometre ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for three companies to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region.
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Overwhelmed by success
Published on 11/03/2024
» Phuket has been in the limelight the past six months after the government announced a plan to elevate Thailand to an aviation hub, with Phuket the key gateway in the South.
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AIA presses on with portfolio diversification
Business, Published on 31/01/2023
» AIA, Asia's largest publicly-listed life insurance and securities group, is looking to expand its portfolio to logistics and real estate-related projects in markets such as Thailand amid economic uncertainties.
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Development the natural way
Asia focus, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 11/07/2022
» Southeast Asian countries don't have to follow the economic development models of the last century to grow and thrive, say advocates for a nature-based economic model.
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World needs trillions to face climate threat: draft UN report
AFP, Published on 12/11/2021
» GLASGOW - Helping vulnerable nations cope with the multiplier effect of climate change on droughts, flooding, heatwaves and tropical mega-storms will require trillions of dollars, not the billions now on the table at COP26, a draft UN report obtained by AFP reveals.
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Shares sink, bond yields jump amid inflation fears
Business, Published on 27/02/2021
» Recap: Global shares plummeted as a bond selloff reflected growing fears that a strong global economic recovery will fan inflation and force interest rates higher. Asian shares led by Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Taipei, Sydney and Shanghai all retreated.
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3 narratives for smart liveable cities, post-Covid
Oped, Published on 11/02/2021
» Cities are home to most of the world's population and where problems and solutions meet. They are centres of economic growth and innovation. However, the high concentration of people and economic activities in cities make them most vulnerable to various disasters, epidemics and pandemics. In several countries, the Covid-19 pandemic emerged from the cities and spread to rural areas via peri-urban and transport corridors. In Southeast and South Asia, around 70% of all reported infections are in urban areas. Furthermore, cities consume much of the national electricity and account for more than 60% of global carbon emissions. National efforts to successfully limit global warming hinge on cities. As a result, the decisions made by city mayors can have direct and immediate impacts on the health of people and the planet -- perhaps more than national or international policies.
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India begins mega-rollout of Covid-19 vaccine
AFP, Published on 16/01/2021
» NEW DELHI: India begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccine programmes on Saturday, a colossal and complex task compounded by safety worries, shaky infrastructure and public scepticism.
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TCEB lines up future Mice arrivals next year
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 08/10/2020
» The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) plans to steady the Mice (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions) industry for future visits from the international market as it awaits the government loosening travel restrictions.
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Understand problems to solve them
Oped, Published on 13/08/2020
» What is happening with the Covid-19 economic crisis is that governments and economists around the world are trying to solve it on a "trial and error" basis because no one actually has experience with a crisis of this magnitude. Textbook measures like mega-fiscal spending, helicopter money, loan payment holidays, SME business loans and near-zero interest rates are being implemented.
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