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    Innovation ‘Imperative’ for Securing Rice Production

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    Research found that 51 per cent of households migrated after being hit by cyclones, floods, salt water intrusion in their fields, erratic rainfall and...
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    ADB Commits Record $10 Billion for Climate Finance

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    How Asia Can Unlock $800 Billion of Climate Financing

    Asia-Pacific countries experienced, on average, six natural disasters a year over the past three decades – about twice as many as developing countries of...
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    The Discourse on Modern Forms of Slavery Needs to be Mainstreamed

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    China’s Young ‘Lie Flat’ Under Social Challenges

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    What Stray Dogs Need in Thailand: Family and Love

    Even now, there are stray dogs that keep breeding and creating more stray dogs. This is a serious ethical problem, as more and more...
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