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Floods, landslides kill 10, leave nine missing in Vietnam
Matt Laslo, Published on 26/07/2024
» HANOI - Flash floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Prapiroon have killed at least 10 people and left 9 missing this week in northern Vietnam, the government's disaster management agency said on Friday.
Malaysia begins diesel subsidy reforms, prices to rise 50% Monday
Published on 09/06/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Diesel fuel prices in much of Malaysia are set to rise by roughly 50% on Monday as the government begins shifting away from costly blanket subsidies to a targeted approach that mainly helps the needy.
Indonesia tells army to help drought-hit farmers plant rice
Reuters, Published on 14/12/2023
» JAKARTA - Indonesia has ordered the military to help farmers plant rice as severe drought has reduced output of the staple in Southeast Asia's most populous country, lifting prices, requiring increased imports and threatening food security.
'Air-pocalypse': Indian capital launches 'Green War Room'
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - The enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital's new "Green War Room" is battling air pollution that is cutting lives of residents by over a decade.
Malaysia asking Asean rice supplying nations to prioritise members
Reuters, Published on 04/10/2023
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia will call on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean) main rice supplying nations to prioritise the bloc's member countries amid concerns over rising prices and supply shortages, state news agency Bernama reported on Wednesday.
India bans most rice exports
Published on 20/07/2023
» NEW DELHI: India has prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect, according to a government notice on Thursday, after a late start to seasonal monsoon rains hurt the crop and raised fears of a production shortfall.
The 'kidneys of Kolkata': Indian wetlands under threat
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» KOLKATA - Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.
All aboard a floating jungle supermarket
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban's front deck. The Tomarahos had taken the boat downriver to vote in Paraguay's national elections and then had slept outside for four days, waiting for the Aquidaban to take them home.
Fleeing a brutal marriage trap
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Like many other women in the state of Punjab, long a hub of emigration from India, Sharndeep Kaur aspired to marry an Indian working abroad and follow him to a more prosperous life overseas.
Pearl farm shows nature's artistry at work
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea -- unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in this coastal city on Japan's main island of Honshu.