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Nepal: Turning to bamboo to rebuild after quake
Bamboo, nicknamed “vegetable steel,” is coming in handy in Nepal as it rebuilds homes and schools after devastating earthquakes in 2015 left hundreds of thousands homeless. “Bamboo is a great…
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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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China passes controversial Counterterrorism Law
Reuters and The Associated Press China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law in December 2015 that requires technology firms to hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to…
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Frontiers in Digital Crime Fighting
Noboru Nakatani, executive director of the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore, shares his views on emerging cyber threats FORUM Staff Noboru Nakatani is on the leading edge of fighting…
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Belgium, Netherlands: Peaceful Border Swap
Throughout history, borders have caused unfathomable bloodshed, ageless feuds and decades-old legal disputes, which makes plans for a friendly exchange of land between the Netherlands and Belgium all the more…
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Brazil: Transgenic Mosquito to Join War on Zika Virus
A genetically modified mosquito has helped reduce the proliferation of mosquitoes spreading Zika and other dangerous viruses in Brazil, its developers said in January 2016. The self-limiting strain of the…
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