Across The Region
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Philippines: Launching world’s first mass dengue vaccination
The Philippines has launched the first public immunization program for dengue fever, seeking to administer to a million schoolchildren the world’s first licensed vaccine against a mosquito-borne disease that the…
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China: Fearing pollution, families build ‘bubbles’
Liu Nanfeng has five air purifiers, two air quality monitors and a water purification system in his Beijing apartment. He buys organic. Still, he worries for his toddler daughter’s health.…
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Burma: Fossilized lizard is clue to ‘lost ecosystem’
A fossilized lizard found preserved in amber in Southeast Asia dates back 99 million years, scientists have determined, making it the oldest specimen of its kind and a “missing link”…
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Thailand: Officials struggling to move rice mountains by 2017
Thailand’s military government will struggle to offload by a 2017 deadline some 14 million tons of rice in state warehouses left over from a policy of the civilian government it…
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Vietnam, Thailand: Large hauls of black-market ivory seized
Nearly 3 tons of ivory seized in Vietnam and Thailand show that the black market trade for illegal animal parts is still thriving in Southeast Asia. Vietnamese officials said 2.2…
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ASIA: Asian techies rising in the ranks
Asian universities with close ties to industry are catching up to U.S. universities in scientific innovation, according to a detailed analysis of academic papers and patent filings. The Reuters Top…
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Indonesia: Ancient Tools Point to Mysterious Humans
The diminutive prehistoric human species dubbed the “Hobbit” that inhabited the isle of Flores apparently had company on other Indonesian islands long before our species, Homo sapiens, arrived on the…
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THAILAND: Tourism Rebounding
Thailand expects tourism to exceed its targets, with more than 30 million arrivals this year, despite a bomb blast that killed 14 foreigners in August 2015 in Bangkok, said the…
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INDONESIA: Enslaved fishermen rescued
More than 2,000 fishermen were rescued in 2015 from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by a yearlong investigation into seafood brought to the U.S. from a slave island…
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MALAYSIA: High marks for anti-money-laundering campaign
While Malaysia’s premier faces tough questions over the origin of hundreds of millions of dollars transferred to his bank accounts, the country has tentatively received good grades for its anti-money-laundering…
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