Category: Regional
Protectionism slammed as Southeast Asian leaders rally to trade pact
Southeast Asian leaders made an impassioned plea against protectionism at a regional summit in Bangkok Sunday, warning that a dragging US-China trade spat could hammer their [...]
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‘No more survivors’ in Cambodia building collapse as toll hits 24
The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to be found under the debris of [...]
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Asian travellers feel the crunch as smaller seats and less legroom appears to be the trend for region’s low-cost carriers Cebu Pacific and AirAsia
Growing Asian airlines will shrink seat space even further and sacrifice legroom to squeeze more passengers onto planes, with experts predicting budget carriers are betting [...]
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Bangladesh train derailment over canal kills five, injures 100: police
A passenger train derailed in Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100, and there could be more casualties inside two carriages that fell [...]
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Dr M suggests international supervision of Rohingya returning to Burma
Asean’s proposed joint bid to host the Fifa World Cup in 2034 will boost the region’s chances of getting it, prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today. Dr [...]
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Sights set on Indo-Pacific
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has finally offered its own version of the Indo-Pacific Strategy, which includes the bloc’s own vision for [...]
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Death toll from building collapse in Cambodia rises to 24
Rescuers on Monday were continuing to search the rubble of a building that collapsed while under construction in a Cambodia beach town, killing at least 25 workers as they [...]
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South China Sea issues go beyond China’s claims, say experts
The contentious South China Sea is not only under the threat of militarisation but also to its environment, with the potential to affect a hundred million regional [...]
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Asian nations scramble to contain pig disease outbreaks
Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million [...]
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Millions of pigs culled as swine fever spreads through Asia
Millions of pigs have been culled in China and Vietnam as a UN food agency urges Asian governments to make containing virulent African swine fever their top priority. With an [...]
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Southeast Asian nations, among worst ocean polluters, aim to curb plastic debris
Thai zero-waste advocate Thanaboon Somboon never leaves his home without what he calls a full “weaponry” of reusable shopping bags, coffee tumblers and stainless [...]
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Laos confirms first cases of African swine fever: OIE
Laos has reported its first cases of African swine fever (ASF), confirming outbreaks in the southern province of Saravane, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal [...]
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Pig disease spreading in Asia as nations struggle to stop it
Asian nations are scrambling to contain highly contagious African swine fever, with Vietnam culling 2.6 million pigs and China reporting a million dead in an unprecedentedly [...]
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Living with the dead: Urban poor take over Cambodian cemetery
Graveyards may traditionally be the eternal resting place for the dead, but one cemetery in Phnom Penh has become a place to stay for the living, as communities destroyed by [...]
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Ride on time: Recycled bikes get Burma kids to school
The clangor of bells in the air, Myanmar children race home from school on recycled bikes shipped from Singapore and Malaysia, donated to give them easier access to education [...]
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