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India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population but account for only 2 percent of confirmed cases of COVID-19. 
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Drought coupled with the coronavirus pandemic spells danger for food security.
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The government plans to provide cash and production subsidies for 2.4 million poor farmers to help them produce during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Au 1er mai, la consommation de viande de chiens et de chats sera interdite à Shenzhen. Une première en Chine qui pourrait bientôt concerner l’ensemble du pays où une consultation est en cours. Mais cette avancée pour les associations de défense des animaux cache bien d’autres problématiques.
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Australia has called on G20 nations to end wet wildlife markets over concerns they pose a threat to human health and agricultural markets, a move which could further strain ties with China after Canberra called for an international inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic.
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Top trader Hin Leong Trading’s financial implosion augurs more industry defaults and bankruptcies ahead
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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre completes 60 years of research partnership with Pakistan.
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Vietnam had recorded 268 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and no deaths. Vietnam has successfully treated 201 patients, performed 206,253 tests and quarantined 62,998 people. Despite being a resource-limited country with a suboptimal healthcare system and sharing a long border with China, Vietnam is successfully managing the pandemic.
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Seven years ago, one of the worst industrial disasters in history — the collapse of an eight-story commercial building in Rana Plaza, Dhaka — demonstrated to the world the heavy price of producing cheap clothing to fuel the ‘fast fashion’ industry for consumers in the global North.
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By now, Covid-19 is humanity's Public Enemy No. 1 and governments are working furiously to contain its spread. In our part of the world, in a recent Special Asean Plus Three Summit, the leaders of the Asean nations, China, South Korea and Japan met via video conference to mount a collective health and economic response.
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Farmers suffer huge losses and communities struggle amid high levels of seawater intruding into the freshwater delta.
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Indonesia and Malaysia are looking to shore up demand domestically and in China, with the EU having changed course away from biofuels.
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Wuhan a été confinée pendant 76 jours, soit deux mois et demi, avec des mesures très restrictives. Mais les habitants de la ville ne peuvent dès lors que se réjouir de la reprise des activités, entamée le 8 avril, car il subsiste de grande
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The executive director of a hunger relief organization outlines how efforts to combat Covid-19 have introduced new challenges
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After many years of sustained annual reductions in poverty and hunger across the Asia-Pacific region, the COVID-19 global pandemic is threatening a massive reversal of these gains and driving Asian countries into recession. The impact on the region will be severe and unprecedented, and will significantly exceed the impact of both the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.
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Pushed out of their village by a drought and lack of food, a group of Nepalis are fighting to amplify the voices of those forced to relocate by the planet’s warming.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s response to natural disasters is expected to be tested again this summer when a giant locust storm from the Horn of Africa is expected to attack farmlands in South Asia.
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A leading Chinese company, currently exporting agriculture machinery to Pakistan, has a plan to build a factory to manufacture machines and equipment to meet the growing demand of the local agriculture sector
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Has the Covid-19 pandemic created the strategic conditions for a US-China clash over Taiwan?
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The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asian countries and supports the livelihood of nearly 200 million people there who depend largely on farming and fishing.
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India is on the cusp of a digital revolution. There are more than 500 million mobile broadband subscribers, more than 1 billion people enrolled for digital identities, more than US$30 million in digital payment transactions processed through the indigenous Unified Payment Interface per month and about 24 Indian startup ‘unicorns’ providing digital platform services.
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COVID-19 is now in Bangladesh. It is one of the world's most densely populated countries with poor healthcare infrastructure, weak logistical facilities, widespread poverty, and inadequate safety nets and income transfer mechanisms.
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The chickens supplied by Toh Thye San Farm have shrunk. They used to weigh in at 2 kg, but now they yield only around 1.3 kg of meat.
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n analysis by academics finds a huge swath of forest in Indonesia that can still potentially be cleared because it lies within logging and plantation concessions, with few requirement
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