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    Bangladesh Faces $50 Billion LNG Crisis, Report Warns of Health and Environmental Hazards

    Instead of investing $36 billion in LNG plants, the money could be used to develop 62 GW of renewable energy, more than double the country’s current total electricity generation capacity.
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    Afghanistan: Community Based Committees to Address Durand Line Residents’ Issues

    Afghanistan's Ministry of Borders, Ethnicities, and Tribes has reported that it has identified all the challenges faced by residents along the Durand Line.
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    Illegal Fishing Threatens Snowtrout and Nepal’s Freshwater Ecosystems

    In recent years, authorities and environmentalists have raised an alarm over the growing threat posed by illegal fishing practices in the country's rivers and...
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    Clean tech

    India, ADB Sign $200 Million Loan to Upgrade Water Supply, Sanitation, Urban Mobility in Uttarakhand

    Given women’s role in monitoring water supply systems, the project will build the capacity of women, including those from vulnerable households, in operating and...
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    Accountability

    World Bank Approves $400M Loan to Support Key Development Projects in Bangladesh

    The loan is also strategically important as Bangladesh seeks to attract more foreign investment and strengthen its global economic standing. By addressing key challenges...
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    Asia Pacific

    Climate Change Could Slash GDP in Developing Asia and the Pacific by 17 Per Cent by 2070, ADB Warns

    The ADB report says that by 2070, the forecasted impacts of climate change could threaten not just the future of Asia-Pacific’s economy but the...
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    Corruption

    Sri Lanka Customs Delays Harming Competitiveness, Fuelling Corruption, Research Finds

    While large corporations may have the ability to weather such inefficiencies, small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, are vulnerable to these delays, as they...
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    Accountability

    Pakistan’s Flood Survivors Face Disease and Food Insecurity Amid Climate Crisis

    Humanitarian organisations are calling for more robust intervention from the government to address the immediate needs of flood survivors, as well as long-term strategies...
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    Pakistan: Activists Demand Probe Into Alleged Demolition of Century-old Hindu Temple in Punjab

    Rights groups continue to press for transparent investigations, reconstruction where warranted, and stronger safeguards so that historic places of worship are not erased regardless of the current demographic composition of surrounding communities.
    Agriculture

    Simultaneous Global Droughts Could Triple Wheat Prices Under 3°C Warming

    Low-income households, which spend a disproportionate share of income on basic staples, face the greatest risk.
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    UN Warns World Will Breach 1.5°C Climate Limit Within Years, Urges Path to Limit and Reverse Overshoot

    Every fraction of a degree and every year avoided above 1.5°C matters for lives, ecosystems, economies and the feasibility of recovery.

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    Pakistan: Activists Demand Probe Into Alleged Demolition of Century-old Hindu Temple in Punjab

    Rights groups continue to press for transparent investigations, reconstruction where warranted, and stronger safeguards so that historic places of worship are not erased regardless of the current demographic composition of surrounding communities.
    Agriculture

    Simultaneous Global Droughts Could Triple Wheat Prices Under 3°C Warming

    Low-income households, which spend a disproportionate share of income on basic staples, face the greatest risk.
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    Nepal’s Silent Time Bombs: Why the Himalaya’s Melting Lakes Demand Urgent Action

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