SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Rapid increase in opium cultivation in Myanmar is an alarming trend for Southeast Asia.
IRIN
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It is difficult to love a city that doesn't love you back.
MJUSE FLANEUROSE
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Cash transfer programmes target women in belief that communities will benefit and men are irresponsible with money.
IRIN
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Childhood obesity is a growing problem among the urban rich in Indonesia
JULIA MADARINA
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A few are rather honey-dripping sweet but more are fun and quintessentially and charmingly Thai – here’s our list of Thai terms of endearment.
KAEWMALA
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The Singapore Courts have ruled that a woman’s ability to attract another mate can decide her alimony.
SIMONE ERASMUS-LAM
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What’s a nonya to do when nobody seems to know what a nonya is?
VIVIENNE KHOO
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Is there really a correlation between extra tuition and better grades?
ANDREA LEUNG
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Recently displaced farmers hit by flooding in the Philippines.
IRIN
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Dislodged by weeks of heavy rain in their natural habitat, the plants had at one point blocked up to 2km of the Rio Grande river.
IRIN
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India lands an estimated 70,000 tonnes of sharks annually, and they eat none of it.
DIVYA KARNAD
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Comparing the art of people-watching in Singapore and New York
POOJA MAKHIJANI
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The modern Filipino remains a serf to the ruling oligarchy, incompetent, lazy, uninspired and dull.
BONGV
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A touching movie that lets us vicariously walk several miles in two Filipino migrant workers’ shoes.
AU WAIPANG
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There are good reasons why China and Vietnam are increasingly belligerent in the territorial dispute.
蔡慎坤 (CAI SHENKUN)
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