Half of the 13,000 square kilometer zone of the EEC will be covered by 5G by February 2021 – the widest in Southeast Asia.
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The fight between the government and the farmers has revived the debate on what Modi’s critics call cozy nexus between the magnates and the popular leader. 
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ASIA'S food consumption is undergoing dramatic changes driven by the region's bourgeoning population, growing middle class and rapid urbanisation. Yet the region is faced with capacity constraints in meeting the rapidly rising food demand of its people, given the limited supply of arable land and water per capita compared with regions such as North America.
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India's Supreme Court formed a committee to resolve a standoff between the government and farmers over three agriculture laws. The farmer unions say they will only settle for a repeal of the laws.
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India's soymeal exports could more than double in 2020/21 after a rally in global prices to their highest in 6-1/2 years made shipments from the south Asian country lucrative for European and Asian buyers, four industry officials told Reuters.
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Those familiar with the systematic attack on agriculture in South Asia over the last decades will not be surprised at the ongoing farmers’ protests in India. It could have been Pakistan
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The city of Chennai, on India's south-eastern coast, infamously ran dry in the summer of 2019. Now, the city is looking to its ancient wetlands to keep its taps running.
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A blue sweep in the U.S. is intensifying Asian stock investors’ conviction in reflation trades much like their global peers as they position their portfolios for the new year.
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Alors que son pays vit l'une des pires crises économiques de son histoire récente, le leader nord-coréen a profité, mardi, d'un congrès exceptionnel à Pyongyang pour appeler les cadres du régime à reconnaître leur incapacité à tenir les objectifs de croissance promis à la population.
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A government official said climate shifts had brought multiple problems to local fields, from more insect pests to water scarcity and declining crop yields
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Thailand’s economic performance in the third quarter of 2020 showed promising signs of recovery amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The contraction in GDP fell to 6.4 per cent year-on-year, down from 12 per cent in the second quarter. Signs of recovery in key industries such as electronics and appliances, the automotive sector and plastics are bright spots.
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La Chine ambitionne d'être le premier grand pays à émettre une monnaie numérique souveraine. Les tests commencent à grande échelle dans ce pays où le paiement mobile est déjà populaire. Le mois dernier, dans 10.000 boutiques de la ville de Suzhou, à l'ouest de Shanghai, des clients ont pu payer en e-yuan.
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Superapp developer seeks new partner after talks with Grab hit logjam
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Online food delivery services blew up in 2020, including in Southeast Asia where they have become urban necessities
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Heavy rain has boosted Australian wheat production, allowing it to sell the crop as far away as North Africa and Europe.
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An urban farm developed on a former landfill site in northern Thailand boosted the food security and livelihoods of poor families during the coronavirus pandemic, and can be a model for unused spaces in other cities, urban experts said on Thursday.
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« L’empire du Milieu accélère » (1/5). L’économie chinoise pourrait connaître, en 2021, un rebond de l’ordre de 8 %. Dans les toutes prochaines années, la Chine abandonnera définitivement son statut de pays émergent pour celui de pays développé.
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Farmers' Protest: The protest by thousands of farmers at Delhi’s borders have brought to focus a range of issues in agriculture in India. One of the country’s leading policy experts provides a primer on some important questions.
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The erosion of street food culture is unfolding throughout Asia. In recent decades, cities all over the continent have been struggling with how to preserve the cultural importance of street food -- all while containing its inherent chaos.
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China's delayed carbon trading system will start operating in February, the environment ministry has said, as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060.
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Last year, the agricultural sector had 16 projects on processing and preserving agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products with a total investment of about VND17.3 trillion. Generally, in the past four years, 67 factories had been put into operation.
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Environmentalists have expressed concern over a massive climate-induced migration in various parts of Pakistan and the government's apathy toward tackling a serious problem.
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However, the biggest impediment to agricultural R&D has been overzealous opposition to the new technologies from ideologues of the left and right.
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Globally, nearly 690 million people were hungry in 2019. Though the number of people who experience hunger in Asia has declined since 2015, the continent still accounts for more than half of the world’s hungry, or undernourished, at approximately 381 million people. Working toward Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), “Zero Hunger,” will require major changes to the world’s food production systems.
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China will increase the area sown with corn in its main grain regions this year, the agriculture minister has said, reversing several years of declining acreage in response to a growing shortfall.
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